Emmerson ‘Crocodile’ Mnangagwa is worse for Zimbabwe than Mugabe
Mnangagwa’s administration has been accused of using Covid-19 as an excuse to restrict freedoms, and is not prosecuting those responsible for human-rights violations
01 September 2020 - 14:11
A year ago this week, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa strained credulity when he declared in a Bloomberg TV interview, “We have rejoined the family of nations.” The international community was already losing patience with his inability to deliver economic reforms and Zimbabweans were complaining of a steady erosion of the political freedoms that had come with the 2017 military-led ouster of the dictator Robert Mugabe.
Indeed, in some respects the new president, who revelled in the nom de guerre “the Crocodile,” was proving worse than his former boss...
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