But contrary to what obtains in revolutionary coups, Zimbabwe’s gentlemen officers are treating President Mugabe with something softer than kid’s gloves. The humane Zimbabwe military that still addressed Mugabe as His Excellency, escorted him to the graduation of Zimbabwe’s Open University after the announcement of the mild coup. Mnangagwa is preferred to Grace, and Second Vice President Phelekeza Mphoko, also a veteran, but Grace crony. Contender Morgan Tsvangirai, also a Shona like Mugabe, only became Vice President to Mugabe from 2009 till 2013. At Independence in 1980, members of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army were grafted as elite into the Zimbabwe National Army.

Source: Punch November 22, 2017 04:18 UTC