Supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling party Zanu-PF hold up election campaign banners during a rally addressed by party president Emmerson Mnangagwa, in Harare on 9 August.
Jekesai Njikizana/ AFP
Wednesday’s general elections in Zimbabwe will be a bridge between the old and the new, despite who wins: the 80-year-old incumbent president Emmerson Mnangagwa or his biggest rival, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa.
Former late strongman Robert Mugabe’s one-time blue-eyed boy before the November 2017 coup, Mnangagwa has been in government as a senior minister since independence in 1980.
In his cabinet, which convenes on Monday for the last time before elections, he has no peers.
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