Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa's Rise, Fall From Grace and Litany of Missed Opportunities

On the afternoon of November 22 2017, a day after a cornered former president Robert Mugabe resigned under pressure from the military -- which was holding his family captive while a parliamentary process to impeach him was underway - Emmerson Mnangagwa returned from a brief, self-imposed exile in South Africa, a hero in many people's eyes.

He gave a speech at the Zanu PF headquarters in Harare where he pledged that he would be a listening president.

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