Zimbabwe elections: Emmerson Mnangagwa will be squaring off against Nelson Chamisa on 23 August at the polls.
In 2017, then 93-year-old Mugabe dismissed Mnangagwa as vice president, clearing the way for the first lady.Fearing for his life, the veteran hardliner made a dramatic escape across the border to Mozambique.
The 2018 vote came with gargantuan expectations of more freedom and economic revival, but these were swiftly dispelled.Mnangagwa blames the sanctions for the country’s woes. In 2008, he allegedly supervised a wave of violence that forced the opposition to pull out of a run-off vote. He has been the target of several apparent assassination attempts including a blast at a 2018 rally that killed two people.
In 1966, he joined the struggle for independence from British colonial rule, becoming one of the young combatants who helped direct the war after undergoing training in China and Egypt.After blowing up a train, he was arrested in 1964 and sentenced to death, later commuted to 10 years in prison because of his young age — leaving him a life-long vocal opponent of the death penalty.
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