BARNEY MTHOMBOTHI: Better the crocodile you know
'Zimbabwe is fortunate to have Mnangagwa head what will hopefully be a transition to true democracy. He understands the lie of the land'
Winners tend to be greedy, to want to take everything and to humiliate the vanquished. Compromise, accommodation or understanding is often not entertained. It's out with the old, in with the new. But radical change doesn't always end well. It creates a vacuum, the sort of dangerous interregnum that Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist, so eloquently warned against. "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," he wrote from his prison cell.It can therefore be said that for Zimbabwe this period, this vacuum, when people are unsure of their roles, poses the biggest danger. Zimbabweans are therefore probably lucky to be stuck with Emmerson Mnangagwa. Judging by his record, Mnangagwa is not a particularly nice man. He fits the description of a monster. He's associated with unspeakable atrocities committed by the Mugabe regime. Robert Mugabe was hardly three years in office when...
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