5 million people facing serious food shortages next year the discovery that some senior state officials are profiteering by importing 17 000 tonnes of grain at double the world market price is the latest blow to the diminishing credibility of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government...
Sakunda has a stake in Trafigura Zimbabwe; Kudakwashe Tagwirei Sakunda's chief executive and once close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa was a key enabler of Trafigura's business in Zimbabwe (AC Vol 59 No 22 Trafigura in a tug-of-war)...
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Current President Emmerson Mnangagwa's PR structures have worked carefully to sell him as a renewed face of ZANU-PF without tarnishing the idea of Mugabe as Zimbabwe's liberator or distancing Mnangagwa from the liberation legacy...
Also President Emmerson Mnangagwa despite lately desiring the demise of Command Agriculture because he feared it was funding a campaign to topple him is now benefitting handsomely from the programme according to multiple sources...
Although Mugabe was the sole signatory to the account he is understood to have surrendered control voluntarily to President Emmerson Mnangagwa after he was overthrown...
The key task facing Mugabe's successor Emmerson Mnangagwa was to dismantle the entire patronage system a complex web of intrigue deceit corruption and cruelty with tentacles reaching through every echelon of society and every department of government...
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It wants to remove the Emmerson Mnangagwa administration through mass protests on the streets rather than a general election or other constitutional means...
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Observing the success of mass protests in Algiers and Khartoum against highly militarised regimes Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is planning a change in tactics stepping up the pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's security state (AC Vol 60 No 7 Protests flush out the old guard)...
'Peace officers'In March President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a new chair to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission...
The arrest of five civic activists on 20 May typifies the crackdown President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is implementing...
Khama who is backing Pelonomi Venson Moitoi for the leadership of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party at its coming congress has been a trenchant critic of governments in Zimbabwe both under Robert Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa (AC Vol 60 no 3 A party at war)...
Given the severity of the country's crisis the plan would be a high-stakes gamble for President Emmerson Mnangagwa but no one else in his government is offering an alternative strategy...