Zimbabwe: The Final Putsch - Mugabe's Bizarre Last Days

23 November 2017

Emmerson Mnangagwa will be sworn in as President on Friday, a stunning climax to a hectic two-month succession brawl that began with a row over ice cream.

It is perhaps an apt portrait of Mugabe's squandered legacy; a once revered revolutionary who fought off imperialists, now seeing off his last days in a din of insults that swung from ice cream, Biblical verses and to claims of witchcraft.

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