Is Mnangagwa a lost cause?
BY KENNETH MAFUKA
One of Barack Obama’s contribution to US foreign policy was the encouragement of a class of liberal whites and blacks with absolutely first-class brains, but above everything else, loved their subjects. The Africa corps was one unit; they were Afro-philes (many of them African Americans). On several occasions, they beat me to information on Zimbabwe.
One such bright “chap” was Todd Moss, an assistant secretary, and three other southern Africa experts. Their report about President Emmerson Mnangagwa came out in the US on July 25, six days before the Zimbabwe 2018 elections.
ED (as our president is called by his friends) had been coached by British Ambassador Katriona Laing, an M-IV intelligence officer with special skills in regime change. As long as Ms Laing was holding ED’s hand, he said the most wonderful things and convinced the world that under his wise leadership, Zimbabwe would come out of the woods.