Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london, and 2am in zimbabwe, where ecstatic crowds, cheering and singing, have greeted Emmerson Mnangagwa returning from south africa. Hes expected to be sworn in as zimbabwes new president later this week. Hes promised what he called a new democracy. Our africa editor, fergal keane, reports from harare on the return of the man they call the crocodile. This was a man who owned the moment, in front of a crowd that greeted him as a conquering hero and with a message of contempt for those hed vanquished. Down with the traitors, he chanted. He said the zanu pf train would keep rolling, but tempered that politicking with an affirmation of this extraordinary moment in zimba bwes history. Today, we are witnessing the beginning of a new unfolding democracy in our country. Cheering. The crowd had gathered since early. The crocodile is coming, they chanted. All day they waited for Emmerson Mnangagwa, he of the legendary ruthlessness, reinvented now as an apostle
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