Another factor is that Mnangagwa's family particularly his wife Auxilia Mnangagwa who was nearly killed in a car crash last month and his business-minded twin sons Collins and Sean Mnangagwa are urging him to stay on to forestall a national breakdown...
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Some senior officers worry that some of the changes in the army may have been made at the instigation of Mnangagwa's wife Auxillia whose son Sean Mnangagwa is an officer of the Presidential Guard...
Auxilia Mnangagwa who is married to Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inherited his seat with over 95% of the vote in their home district in the Midlands...
Mnangagwa has been trying to change this by raising his public profile as at a massive ZANU-PF rally in Zibagwe launching his wife Auxillia's by-election campaign on 22 February: he was formerly the incumbent member of parliament but under the new constitution had to give it up on his elevation to the vice-presidency...