Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa (Ngwena 'crocodile')

'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...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's pronouncements of a new era of democracy have been shattered after the shooting of demonstrators in Harare in August as well as the violence to meted out to oppositionists last month...

Despite South Africa's good offices it will offer little financial support to Harare but it will encourage regional institutions such as the AfDB and the Cairo-based Afreximbank to step up backing for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government...

When Emmerson Mnangagwa won the 2018 election he established his legitimacy as the president of Zimbabwe rather than the figurehead for a military coup and as the leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front by being adopted as the party's candidate for the 2023 presidential election at the ZANU-PF conference in December (AC Vol 59 No 25 Mnangagwa's resolution)...

Angry at Dutch-based commodities trader Trafigura's control of the country's only oil products pipeline from the Mozambican port of Beira President Emmerson Mnangagwa has told local oil mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei he is determined to break the monopoly...

Had that motion passed with its transparent object of excluding the 40-year-old Movement for Democratic Change leader Nelson Chamisa from the next election it would have been open season on President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the international and regional press...

When President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a commission of inquiry to investigate the 1 August 2018 post-election violence it looked like a further bid by the government for legitimacy (AC Vol 59 No 17 The judges join in)...