Two months after pushing aside his former boss in a military
takeover, Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa still carefully maintains that
Robert Mugabe made no mistakes while he was in power.The new Zimbabwe leader does, however, repeat the line that those around the former president took advantage of his advanced years to usurp some of his powers.
Woke up under house arrest
Mugabe, 93, had been in power for 37 years when he woke up to find he was under house arrest by the military last November.
He was eventually persuaded to step down to allow the former vice president to take over even though Mugabe had recently sacked him.
Mnangagwa, 75, has said he’ll hold free and fair elections later this year. Asked by journalists from Russia’s Sputnik news agency whether there were any mistakes Mugabe made that he would not want to repeat, Mnangagwa replied: "No, the president never made any mistakes."