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9 - Fortune, Love and Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2020

Blessing-Miles Tendi
Blessing-Miles Tendi
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University of Oxford
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This chapter examines ZANU PF’s presidential succession politics, which gathered strong momentum from the late 1990s onward. Mujuru joined active politics as a ZANU PF Member of Parliament after his retirement from the military in 1992 and he led a faction in the internal fight to succeed Mugabe. The chapter examines the elite politics of this succession struggle, in which Mujuru never sought the presidency for himself. It contends that the primary reasons for Mujuru and Mugabe’s political falling out centred on issues such as Mujuru’s opposition to Mugabe’s one-party-state project, Zimbabwe’s 1998 military intervention in the DRC and the deleterious effects of Mugabe’s policies on Mujuru’s commercial interests. The chapter also lays bare the causes of Mujuru’s important rivalry with Emmerson Mnangagwa, a presidential succession contender. Lastly the chapter surveys Mujuru’s business activities and considers his private life as husband and father.

Keywords

Presidential Succession PoliticsDRC WarEconomic InterestsLove and MarriageOpposition PoliticsMavamboMorgan Tsvangirai
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The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe
Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker
 , pp. 224 - 263
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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