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ZIMBABWE: Mnangagwa's First Team

ZIMBABWE: Mnangagwa's First Team The military takes a prominent role in the new cabinet.Although Emmerson Mnangagwa had promised to hit the ground running, it took him a week to choose his cabinet after the presidential inauguration on November 24th, observed Africa Confidential (15/12). The delays in making the announcement, and the fact that the new team was very much like the old one, point to the internal divisions in Zimbabwe's new leadership that Mnangagwa faces.The cabinet announced late on November 30th was not the team that had been agreed on by Mnangagwa's faction in discussions that afternoon. Several of the president's allies were left out or received significantly less powerful positions than expected.Those pushing for a broad‐based government bringing in appointees from the professions, civil society and opposition parties lost the argument. The hardliners, particularly those in the military, prevailed.Many had expected the fiery Chris Mutsvangwa, leader of the war veterans and a former ambassador to China, to be appointed as Foreign Minister. Mutsvangwa played a crucial role in persuading a wide‐ranging alliance of civic and political activists to join a mass demonstration to demand President Robert Mugabe's departure on November 18th. Instead, he was initially named Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series Wiley

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© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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1467-825X
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10.1111/j.1467-825X.2018.08014.x
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The military takes a prominent role in the new cabinet.Although Emmerson Mnangagwa had promised to hit the ground running, it took him a week to choose his cabinet after the presidential inauguration on November 24th, observed Africa Confidential (15/12). The delays in making the announcement, and the fact that the new team was very much like the old one, point to the internal divisions in Zimbabwe's new leadership that Mnangagwa faces.The cabinet announced late on November 30th was not the team that had been agreed on by Mnangagwa's faction in discussions that afternoon. Several of the president's allies were left out or received significantly less powerful positions than expected.Those pushing for a broad‐based government bringing in appointees from the professions, civil society and opposition parties lost the argument. The hardliners, particularly those in the military, prevailed.Many had expected the fiery Chris Mutsvangwa, leader of the war veterans and a former ambassador to China, to be appointed as Foreign Minister. Mutsvangwa played a crucial role in persuading a wide‐ranging alliance of civic and political activists to join a mass demonstration to demand President Robert Mugabe's departure on November 18th. Instead, he was initially named Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting

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Africa Research Bulletin: Political, Social and Cultural Series – Wiley

Published: Jan 1, 2018

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