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Zimbabwe’s ZANU-PF picks ousted VP Mnangagwa for 2018 polls

By AFP
19 November 2017   |   2:11 pm
Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party said on Sunday that former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, whose sacking sparked a military takeover earlier this week, would be its candidate for president in elections scheduled for 2018. "Mnangagwa was elected as president and first secretary of ZANU-PF... and was nominated as the party's presidential candidate for the 2018 general…

Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party said on Sunday that former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, whose sacking sparked a military takeover earlier this week, would be its candidate for president in elections scheduled for 2018.

“Mnangagwa was elected as president and first secretary of ZANU-PF… and was nominated as the party’s presidential candidate for the 2018 general elections,” said a party official at a meeting in Harare.

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