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119-812: It is governed by a four-person council consisting of the Ministers of Energy and Finance of each country. Its primary function is to operate and maintain the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River. The ZRA was established in 1987 as a successor to the Central African Power Corporation, which had formerly managed power generation and transmission from the Kariba Dam. The Zambezi originates in northwestern Zambia, and runs west and then southwest through Angola before reentering Zambia. It flows south and forms part of

238-597: A Bachelor of Science in economics , but instead decided to study law. In 1972, he took his final examinations for a Bachelor of Laws through the University of London International Programmes . Mnangagwa and his lawyers discovered a loophole that would allow him to be deported after his release if he claimed to be Zambian. Even after his ten-year sentence expired, he remained in prison for several months while his papers were being processed. In 1975, after more than ten years in prison, including three in solitary confinement, he

357-467: A demotion , as the ministry had already completed its most important tasks under Zvobgo's leadership. These included drafting the constitutional amendments that abolished the 20 seats in Parliament reserved for whites and establishing an executive presidency , which both were completed in 1987. Mnangagwa was initially so disappointed with his cabinet role that he considered leaving politics and entering

476-479: A "significant blow, though the justice ministry is quite important". On 10 December 2014, President Mugabe appointed Mnangagwa as First Vice-President of Zimbabwe , appearing to confirm his position as the presumed successor to Mugabe. His appointment followed the dismissal of Mnangagwa's long-time opponent in the succession rivalry, Joice Mujuru , who was cast into the political wilderness amidst allegations that she had plotted against Mugabe. Mnangagwa admitted he

595-473: A 2017 interview, "How do I become the enforcer of the Gukurahundi ? We had the president, the minister of defence, the commander of the army, and I was none of that." Despite his denials, Mnangagwa is accused by many, including foreign governments, opposition politicians, and human rights groups, of playing a significant, or leading role in the Gukurahundi . As national security minister, his CIO worked with

714-417: A 250 MW floating solar plant on Lake Kariba to improve electricity reliability. Emmerson Mnangagwa Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa ( US : / m ə n ə ŋ ˈ ɡ ɑː ɡ w ə / mə-nəng- GAH -gwə , Shona: [m̩naˈᵑɡaɡwa] ; born 15 September 1942) is a Zimbabwean politician who is serving as the third president of Zimbabwe since 2017. A member of ZANU–PF and

833-503: A Mugabe victory on election day. After Mugabe failed to win a majority in the initial vote, Mnangagwa organised a campaign of violence in the leadup to the second round of voting that caused opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai to withdraw from the election, securing Mugabe's continued rule. After the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai won a majority of seats in Parliament in

952-441: A Risk Research Report entitled Impact of the failure of the Kariba Dam . It concluded: "Whilst we can debate whether the Kariba Dam will fail, why it might occur and when, there is no doubt that the impact across the region would be devastating." In January 2016 it was reported that water levels at the dam had dropped to 12% of capacity. Levels fell by 5.58 metres (18.3 ft), which is just 1.75 metres (5 ft 9 in) above

1071-606: A book in the school library by the American philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson , he decided to adopt the name "Emmerson" before his given name. After a short period at Myooye, Mnangagwa completed standards 4, 5, and 6 at Mumbwa Boarding School. From 1958 to 1959, he attended Kafue Trade School in Kafue , where he took a building course. Although his course at Kafue was supposed to last three years, in 1959 Mnangagwa decided to leave early and attend Hodgson Technical College , one of

1190-528: A cheaper and less grandiose project, with a smaller environmental impact. Southern Rhodesia, the richest of the three, objected to a Kafue dam and insisted that the dam be sited instead at Kariba. Also, the capacity of the Kafue dam was much lower than that at Kariba. Initially, the dam was managed and maintained by the Central African Power Corporation . The Kariba Dam is now owned and operated by

1309-555: A child, Mnangagwa herded cattle and was permitted to visit the local chief's court, where he went to watch cases being heard in a traditional setting. His paternal grandfather, Mubengo Kushanduka, had a great influence on him during his formative years. Kushanduka had served in the court of the Ndebele king Lobengula and fought in the Second Matabele War in the 1890s, and Mnangagwa enjoyed listening to him telling his stories. By

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1428-601: A conduit between the people of the Zambezi Valley and their country's decision-making process. The Kariba Dam controls 90% of the total runoff of the Zambezi River, thus changing the downstream ecology dramatically. From 1958 to 1961, Operation Noah captured and removed around 6,000 large animals and numerous small ones threatened by the lake's rising waters. On 6 February 2008, the BBC reported that heavy rain could lead to

1547-496: A coup, and said he had no interest in supporting Mnangagwa, whom he regarded as equally bad, if not worse, than Mugabe. Instead, Matapo said that the group were simply trying to form a new political party, which they eventually did after their release from prison. In the March 2008 parliamentary election , Mnangagwa stood as ZANU–PF's candidate in the newly created Chirumanzu–Zibagwe constituency in rural Midlands Province . He won by

1666-577: A demonstration against the Zimbabwe Unity Movement , the opposition party contesting Mnangagwa's seat. On election day, Mnangagwa won with 23,898 votes, while his little-known rival, ZUM candidate Sylvester Chibanda, received only 7,094 votes. Mnangagwa was reelected again in the 1995 parliamentary election , in another race marked by voter intimidation. Election monitors in Kwekwe reported that voters were told that if they did not vote with ZANU–PF,

1785-500: A large family; his grandfather had six wives and 32 sons (daughters were not counted), and Mnangagwa himself is the third of ten siblings. His father had two wives, having inherited his wife Mhurai's sister after the death of her husband. Mnangagwa thus had eight additional half-siblings who were also his cousins. The Mnangagwa family were members of the Karanga people , the largest subgroup of Zimbabwe's majority Shona ethnic group. As

1904-455: A longtime ally of former President Robert Mugabe , he held a series of cabinet portfolios and he was Mugabe's first-vice president from 2014 until 2017, when he was dismissed before coming to power in a coup d'état . He secured his first full term as president in the disputed 2018 general election . Mnangagwa was re-elected in the August 2023 general election with 52.6% of the vote. Mnangagwa

2023-467: A new cabinet, from which Mnangagwa was conspicuously absent. His exclusion from the cabinet fanned speculation that Mnangagwa, widely seen as Mugabe's preferred successor, had lost favour with the president. However, the next day, when Parliament was sworn in, Mnangagwa was elected Speaker of the House of Assembly , receiving 87 ballots against MDC candidate Mike Mataure 's 59 votes. The secret ballot election

2142-611: A new training camp in Iringa , where he met leading black nationalists like James Chikerema and Clement Muchachi . While there, he criticised the decisions of ZAPU's leader, Joshua Nkomo , an offence for which a ZIPRA tribunal chaired by Dumiso Dabengwa sentenced him to death. Two other ZAPU members of his same Karanga background, Simon Muzenda and Leopold Takawira , the party's external affairs secretary, intervened to save his life. In April 1963, Mnangagwa and 12 other ZAPU members were sent via Dar es Salaam to Egypt for training at

2261-468: A number of years been seen as Mugabe's likely successor. Treason charges were laid against Matapo and other alleged plotters, but no trial ever took place for lack of evidence . Nevertheless, Matapo and six others (not including Ncube, Rugeje, or Moyo) ended up spending seven years in Chikurubi Prison before being released in 2014. Matapo denied that he and the other accused plotters planning

2380-571: A pipeline to carry water south to supply the city of Bulawayo . Botswana also proposed to carry water south to Gaborone through an extension to the North-South Carrier (NSC). Some of the NSC water could be shared with South Africa. These projects raised concern with downstream countries threatened by loss of water. The question of claims on the Zambezi water by nations bordering the river were settled by

2499-681: A postgraduate law degree. He then completed his articling with the Lusaka-based law firm of the Rhodesian-born Enoch Dumbutshena , who would later become Zimbabwe's first black judge. He was admitted to the Zambian bar in 1976. At the same time, Mnangagwa was also serving as the secretary for ZANU's Zambia Division, based in Lusaka. After a couple of years working for a private law firm, he moved to Mozambique. He visited Maputo at

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2618-710: A private company. In 1962, Mnangagwa was recruited in Northern Rhodesia by Willie Musarurwa to join the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), a newly formed pro-independence party in Southern Rhodesia. He became a guerrilla fighter for ZAPU's armed wing, the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), and was sent to Tanganyika (now Tanzania ) for training. He stayed first in Mbeya , and then at

2737-456: A prodigious crop of pawpaws, bananas, oranges, lemons, and vegetables, and shown that the remains of the valley could be made prolific if only money could be found for irrigation. Cooperative markets have been organized, and Tonga are being taught to run them. Enterprising Tonga have been given loans to set themselves up as farmers. More schools have been built than the Tonga ever had before, and most of

2856-524: A release of water from the dam, which would force 50,000 people downstream to evacuate. Rising levels led to the opening of the floodgates in March 2010, requiring the evacuation of 130,000 people who lived in the floodplain, and causing concerns that flooding would spread to nearby areas. In March 2014, at a conference organized by the Zambezi River Authority , engineers warned that the foundations of

2975-684: A small cell of white agents, supplied information leading to South Africa's August 1981 assassination of Joe Gqabi , an ANC representative in Zimbabwe. Another, Matt Calloway , formerly the CIO's top agent in Hwange District , was in 1983 identified by the Zimbabwean government as being involved a South African operation that recruited, trained, and armed disaffected Ndebeles and sent them back into Matabeleland as guerrillas. The violence they sparked contributed to

3094-478: A total cost of $ 480,000,000. During construction, 86 construction workers lost their lives. The dam was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother on 17 May 1960. The Kariba Dam supplies 2,010 megawatts (2,700,000 hp) of electricity to parts of both Zambia (the Copperbelt ) and Zimbabwe and generates 6,400 gigawatt-hours (23,000 TJ) per annum . Each country has its own power station on

3213-581: A training camp in Bagamoyo run by FRELIMO , the group seeking to liberate Mozambique from Portuguese rule. Mnangagwa soon left Tanganyika to train for ZANU's militant wing, the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA). Part of the first group of ZANLA fighters sent overseas for training, he and four others were sent to Beijing , where he spent the first two months studying at Peking University 's School of Marxism, run by

3332-472: A wide margin, receiving 9,645 votes against two MDC candidates, Mudavanhu Masendeke and Thomas Michael Dzingisai, who respectively received 1,548 and 894 votes. Mnangagwa was Mugabe's chief election agent during the 2008 presidential election , and headed Mugabe's campaign behind the scenes. Along with his team, Mnangagwa worked with party loyalists within the Joint Operations Command to ensure

3451-681: Is accepted for Mnangagwa, this claim might have been a lie. Other sources state that a priest intervened on his behalf, or that he avoided execution because he was Zambian, not because of his age. Whatever the reason, Mnangagwa was instead sentenced to ten years in prison. Mnangagwa served the first year of his sentence in Salisbury Central Prison , followed by Grey Street Prison in Bulawayo , and finally Khami Maximum Security Prison in Bulawayo, where he arrived on 13 August 1966 and spent

3570-501: Is optimistic about rainfall estimates for the 2020/2021 rainfall season, allocating an increased amount of water for power production. At that time, the reservoir held 15.77 billion cubic meters of water, with the water line sitting at around 478.30 metres (1,569.23 ft), just above the minimum capacity for power generation of 475.50 metres (1,560.04 ft). It was reported in February 2022 that rehabilitation work has been underway since 2017 on

3689-570: Is the fourth largest river in Africa after the Nile, Congo and Niger. Functions of the ZRA, as laid out in the acts that created the body, include: The Zambezi River Authority also plays a role in managing the use of water from Lake Kariba for irrigation and for domestic, industrial and institutional use. There has been tension between the countries that border the river. In the early 1990s, Zimbabwe proposed to build

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3808-408: Is to guarantee the structural integrity of the Kariba Dam, assuring the sustained generation of power primarily for the benefit of the inhabitants of Zimbabwe and Zambia and the broader Southern African Development Community area. The work on redesigning the plunge pool involves bulk excavating the rock in the current pool to assist plunge pool stabilization and avoid additional scouring or erosion along

3927-554: The Gukurahundi massacres, in which thousands of Ndebele civilians were killed during his tenure, is controversial. Mnangagwa was Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs from 1989 to 2000 and then Speaker of the Parliament from 2000 until 2005, when he was demoted to Minister of Rural Housing for openly jockeying to succeed the aging Mugabe. He returned to favour during the 2008 general election , in which he ran Mugabe's campaign, orchestrating political violence against

4046-456: The 2013 general election . Mnangagwa denied that he was in charge of the JOC, calling the allegations "nonsense" and insisting that he wanted upcoming elections to be "free and fair". He also denied having any presidential ambitions, pointing out that ZANU–PF has procedures to choose a new president. In the election, Mugabe was re-elected President by a wide margin, and ZANU–PF regained its majority in

4165-586: The British Empire . The double curvature concrete arch dam was designed by Coyne et Bellier and constructed between 1955 and 1959 by Impresit of Italy at a cost of $ 135,000,000 for the first stage with only the Kariba South power cavern. Final construction and the addition of the Kariba North Power cavern by Mitchell Construction was not completed until 1977, due to largely political problems, for

4284-541: The Central Intelligence Organisation , the national intelligence agency . In that position, Mnangagwa cultivated strong relationships with Zimbabwe's security establishment. After the head of Zimbabwe Defence Forces , the Rhodesian holdover General Peter Walls , was dismissed by Mugabe on 15 September 1980, Mnangagwa also took over as Chairman of the Joint Operations Command . In that role, he oversaw

4403-619: The Chinese Communist Party . He then spent three months in combat training in Nanjing and studied at a school for military engineering before returning to Tanzania in May 1964. There, he briefly stayed at ZANLA's Itumbi Reefs training camp near Chunya . Upon returning to Tanzania, Mnangagwa co-founded the Crocodile Gang , a ZANLA guerrilla unit led by William Ndangana composed of

4522-674: The Egyptian Military Academy in Cairo 's Heliopolis suburb. In August 1963, ten of the 13 trainees, including Mnangagwa, joined the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which had been formed earlier that month as a breakaway group from ZAPU. The ten stopped training for ZAPU and were subsequently detained by Egyptian authorities. During their detention, they contacted ZANU official Robert Mugabe in Tanganyika with

4641-439: The Gukurahundi atrocities would be repeated against them. While serving as justice minister, Mnangagwa was also acting Finance Minister from November 1995 to April 1996, after the previous minister, Bernard Chidzero , stepped down for health reasons, and his successor Ariston Chambati died. He was also acting Minister of Foreign Affairs for a short period. In 1998, Mnangagwa was put in charge of Zimbabwe's intervention in

4760-410: The Gukurahundi through informal channels of communication. In Zimbabwe at the time, coordination between government agencies did not always occur within bureaucratic channels, but often through ethnic or political connections. Thus, as Mugabe's security minister, Mnangagwa's role was not necessarily restricted by the limitations of his ministry or the CIO. The Gukurahundi ended with the signing of

4879-434: The March 2005 parliamentary election , Mnangagwa was again defeated by Blessing Chebundo in the Kwekwe constituency, this time with 46 percent of the votes to Chebundo's 54 percent. Just as before, Mugabe appointed Mnangagwa to one of the unelected seats in Parliament. John Nkomo replaced Mnangagwa as Speaker of Parliament. In the new cabinet, Mugabe named Mnangagwa as Minister of Rural Housing and Social Amenities . This

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4998-730: The Minister of Information , were censured at a party meeting for allegedly plotting against Mugabe. The controversy began when Moyo hosted a meeting with other politicians in his home district of Tsholotsho to discuss replacing Mugabe's choice for vice-president, Joice Mujuru , with Mnangagwa. They hoped that as vice-president, Mnangagwa would be in a superior position to become president when Mugabe stepped down, which they believed might happen as early as 2008. The group also planned to replace ZANU–PF chair John Nkomo and party vice-president Joseph Msika with their preferred candidates. Despite President Mugabe's calls for unity, observers described

5117-795: The Second Congo War , in which the Zimbabwe National Army entered the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the side of Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila . A 2000 article in the Zimbabwean magazine Moto described Mnangagwa as Mugabe's heir apparent , writing, "With the DRC issue at hand, it has been difficult to tell whether he is the Minister of Justice or the Minister of Defence as he has been shuttling between Harare and Kinshasa ." During

5236-500: The Unity Accord on 22 December 1987. The agreement, signed by Prime Minister Mugabe and ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo, merged ZAPU into the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF). On 18 April 1988, Mugabe announced amnesty for all dissidents, and in return, Nkomo called on them to lay down their arms. In the late 1980s, a series of court cases exposed the existence of apartheid South African spies within

5355-570: The Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe . The dam stands 128 metres (420 ft) tall and 579 metres (1,900 ft) long. The dam forms Lake Kariba , which extends for 280 kilometres (170 mi) and holds 185 cubic kilometres (150,000,000 acre⋅ft) of water. The dam was constructed on the orders of the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland , a 'federal colony' within

5474-623: The Zambezi River Authority , which is jointly and equally owned by Zimbabwe and Zambia . Since Zambia's independence, three dams have been built on the Kafue River: the Kafue Gorge Upper Dam , Kafue Gorge Lower Dam and the Itezhi-Tezhi Dam . The creation of the reservoir forced resettlement of about 57,000 Tonga people living along the Zambezi on both sides. There are many different perspectives on how much resettlement aid

5593-507: The Zimbabwe Defence Forces and members of Mnangagwa's Lacoste political faction, launched a coup . After losing ZANU–PF's support, Mugabe resigned, and Mnangagwa returned to Zimbabwe to assume the presidency. Mnangagwa is commonly nicknamed " Garwe " or " Ngwena " ( Shona : "The crocodile). It came initially from the name of the guerrilla group he founded, but later came to denote his political shrewdness. Reflecting this,

5712-525: The "Crocodile Gang", a group that attacked white-owned farms in the Eastern Highlands . In 1965, he bombed a train near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo ) and was imprisoned for ten years, after which he was released and deported to the recently independent Zambia. He later studied law at the University of Zambia and practiced as an attorney for two years before going to Mozambique to rejoin ZANU. In Mozambique, he

5831-533: The 1995 Southern African Development Community (SADC) protocol on shared watercourse systems and establishment of the Zambezi River Authority. However, the commitment of member governments to honor the agreement seems weak and may not stand up to the pressures of climate change. Citations Sources Kariba Dam The Kariba Dam is a double curvature concrete arch dam in the Kariba Gorge of

5950-503: The 2008 election, Mnangagwa played a key role in brokering a power-sharing pact between ZANU–PF and the MDC–T. When the Government of National Unity was sworn in on 13 February 2009, Mnangagwa became Minister of Defence . Despite having coordinated a campaign of political violence against the MDC–T in 2008, and allegedly having been behind three separate attempts to assassinate Tsvangirai over

6069-636: The 5th Brigade targeted large numbers of Ndebele civilians, the CIO often focused on more specific targets, particularly ZAPU leaders and organizers. The CIO also provided information, including documents and surveillance intelligence, to the 5th Brigade and other segments of the government involved in the violence. The CIO gave Bush War-era ZIPRA personnel files to the 5th Brigade, which used them to seek out ex-ZANU and ZIPRA leaders in Matabeleland. In addition to focused violence and intelligence-sharing, CIO leaders also cooperated with other groups participating in

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6188-579: The 5th Brigade. In addition, documents from both the United States Department of State and the Australian embassy in Harare reveal Mnangagwa's knowledge of and role in the Gukurahundi . While the 5th Brigade, which Mnangagwa did not directly oversee, carried out the vast majority of the killings, the CIO participated in other ways, including apprehending and interrogating alleged dissidents. Whereas

6307-478: The CIO, who played a significant role in causing the Gukurahundi by providing distorted intelligence reports and purposely inflaming ethnic tensions. These spies, white holdovers from the Rhodesian era, contributed to South Africa's interest in destabilising the newly independent Zimbabwe. In particular, they sought to damage ZAPU and ZIPRA, which maintained close ties to the African National Congress ,

6426-460: The Congo and for his involvement in making Harare a significant illicit diamond trading centre. The panel and recommended that Mnangagwa, along with 53 others, be subject to international travel bans and financial restrictions. The following year, he was placed under United States sanctions. In December 2004, internal divisions within ZANU–PF became public when Mnangagwa, along with Jonathan Moyo ,

6545-548: The Congo during the Second Congo War. A 2001 United Nations report described him as "the architect of the commercial activities of ZANU–PF". A The Guardian article from the same year wrote that Mnangagwa "negotiated the swapping of Zimbabwean soldiers' lives for mining contracts". In 2002, a report authored by a panel commissioned by the UN Security Council implicated him in the exploitation of mineral wealth from

6664-439: The Crocodile Gang ambushed and murdered Pieter Johan Andries Oberholzer, a white factory foreman and police reservist, in Melsetter , near Southern Rhodesia's eastern border. Dhlamini and Mlambo were caught and hanged for the crime; the others evaded capture. The event marked the first instance of violence in what became the Rhodesian Bush War , and prompted the government to crack down on both ZANU and ZAPU. In August 1964,

6783-429: The Crocodile Gang with recruiting new members from the urban centres of Salisbury , Fort Victoria , Belingwe , and Macheke , and smuggling them through the border at Mutoko into Tanzania for training. The Crocodile Gang traveled back and forth on foot between Salisbury and Mutoko. Soon, party leaders at Sikombela sent the group a message urging them to take more extreme actions as a means of gaining publicity, with

6902-466: The Kariba Dam because of rapidly declining water levels" but "Zambia doesn't anticipate power cuts as a result of shortages". On 5 August that year, the same publication reported that the reservoir was near empty, and that it may have to stop hydropower production. As of November 2020 the water level in the Kariba reservoir has remained steady around the 25% capacity, up from nearly half that in November 2019. The Zambezi River Authority has stated that it

7021-487: The Kariba dam. The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) said that work on the Kariba Dam Rehabilitation Project (KDRP), which includes efforts to reconfigure the plunge pool and rebuild the spillway gates, is scheduled to be finished in 2025. The rehabilitation of the dam is being financed by the European Union (EU), the World Bank, the Swedish government and the African Development Bank (AfDB), with the Zambian and Zimbabwe governments contributing counterpart funding. The project’s goal

7140-415: The National Assembly. On 10 September 2013, Mugabe announced a new cabinet, appointing Mnangagwa to the post of Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, the office he previously held from 1989 to 2000. Vice-President Joice Mujuru's faction of the party was seen as the victor in Mugabe's cabinet appointment, taking most key positions, including defence, which was previously held by Mnangagwa but

7259-466: The Tonga are now within reach of dispensaries and hospitals." Anthropologist Thayer Scudder , who has studied these communities since the late 1950s, wrote: "Today, most are still 'development refugees'. Many live in less-productive, problem-prone areas, some of which have been so seriously degraded within the last generation that they resemble lands on the edge of the Sahara Desert." American writer Jacques Leslie , in Deep Water (2005), focused on

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7378-445: The administration of Prime Minister Ian Smith imprisoned Sithole, Takawira, Edgar Tekere , Enos Nkala, and Maurice Nyagumbo . ZANLA was left with Josiah Tongogara and Herbert Chitepo as its leaders. Before Oberholzer's murder, the gang had already bombed the Nyanyadzi police station and attempted other ambushes after arriving in Southern Rhodesia via bus from Kitwe , Northern Rhodesia. It continued its campaign of violence after

7497-498: The army to suppress ZAPU, ZANU's rival political party, which drew its support from Ndebele people. In the lead-up to the massacres, he delivered speeches attacking the opposition. In a 15 March 1983 speech at a rally in Victoria Falls , he described government opponents as " cockroaches " and "bugs" that required the government to bring in DDT (a pesticide ) to remove them. He also said that their villages should be burned. In another speech, he said: "Blessed are they who follow

7616-421: The border between Zambia and Namibia . After picking up the waters of the Chobe River at the quadripoint where Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe meet, the river flows east along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, powering the shared Kariba Dam hydroelectric station, before entering Mozambique and flowing to the Indian Ocean . The Zambezi basin also includes parts of Malawi and Tanzania. The Zambezi

7735-419: The congress, three members of the Crocodile Gang were captured and arrested for smuggling guns into the country, while Lawrence Svosve went missing after being sent by Mnangagwa to Lusaka to retrieve some messages. Despite these losses, the Crocodile Gang remained active and was joined by Matthew Malowa, a ZANU member who had trained in Egypt. In addition to smuggling weapons into Rhodesia, ZANLA leaders tasked

7854-501: The country's leading educational institutions. The college accepted only applicants with Ordinary Levels , which he lacked, so he took the entrance exam, and was admitted upon receiving a high score. At Hodgson, he enrolled in a four-year City and Guilds Industrial Building programme. He became involved in student anti-colonial politics, becoming an elected officer of the college's United National Independence Party (UNIP) branch. His activism sometimes turned violent, and in 1960 he

7973-403: The coup, all of whom were arrested, were retired army Captain Albert Matapo , army spokesman Ben Ncube , Major General Engelbert Rugeje , and Air Vice Marshal Elson Moyo . According to the government, the soldiers planned on forcibly removing Mugabe from the presidency and asking Mnangagwa to form a government with the heads of the armed forces. Reportedly, the government first learned of

8092-442: The dam had weakened and there was a possibility of dam failure unless repairs were made. On 3 October 2014 the BBC reported that "The Kariba Dam is in a dangerous state. Opened in 1959, it was built on a seemingly solid bed of basalt. But, in the past 50 years, the torrents from the spillway have eroded that bedrock, carving a vast crater that has undercut the dam's foundations. … engineers are now warning that without urgent repairs,

8211-580: The facility has been supported by a $ 319m loan from China. The deal is a clear example of Zimbabwe's "Look East" policy, which was adopted after falling out with Western powers. Construction on the Kariba South expansion began in mid-2014 and was initially expected to be complete in 2019. In March 2018, president Emmerson Mnangagwa commissioned the completed expansion of Kariba South Hydroelectric Power Station . The addition of two new 150 megawatts (200,000 hp) turbines raised capacity at this station to 1,050 megawatts (1,410,000 hp). The expansion work

8330-441: The first group of civilian leaders, including Mutasa and Eddison Zvobgo , as they made their way from Maputo into what would soon be the Republic of Zimbabwe . On 12 March 1980, the month before Zimbabwe's independence, incoming Prime Minister Robert Mugabe named his first cabinet, in which Mnangagwa was named Minister of State for National Security in the President's Office . Among other responsibilities, his portfolio oversaw

8449-438: The former self-governing British colony of Southern Rhodesia and the former British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland . Northern Rhodesia had decided earlier in 1953 (before the Federation was founded) to build a dam within its territory, on the Kafue River , a major tributary of the Zambezi . It would have been closer to Northern Rhodesia's Copperbelt , which was in need of more power. This would have been

8568-558: The hope that greater exposure would bring ZANU's efforts to the attention of the Organisation of African Unity 's Liberation Committee, which was meeting in Dar es Salaam at the time. The Crocodile Gang, now comprising Ndangana, Malowa, Victor Mlambo, James Dhlamini, Master Tresha, and Mnangagwa, met to make plans at Ndabaningi Sithole's house in the Highfield suburb of Salisbury. On 4 July 1964,

8687-417: The information that they intended to join ZANU and had been detained. Mugabe redirected Trynos Makombe, who was returning from China , to Egypt to resolve the issue. Makombe secured their release and gave them plane tickets to Dar es Salaam. After arriving in Tanganyika in late August 1963, six of the eleven returned to Southern Rhodesia, while the other five, including Mnangagwa, were sent to briefly stay at

8806-619: The integration of ZANLA and ZIPRA fighters with the existing units of the former Rhodesian Security Forces . During this period, he also served as ZANU's secretary for national security. In the 1985 parliamentary election , Mnangagwa ran as ZANU's candidate for the Kwekwe East constituency. He won with 86% of the vote, defeating ZAPU 's Elias Hananda and the United African National Council 's Kenneth Kumbirayi Kaparepare, who respectively received 11% and 3%. While Mnangagwa

8925-465: The journalist Willie Musarurwa . Mnangagwa's cell at Khami was austere, with double-thick walls and only a toilet bucket and Bible allowed inside. At first, while still on death row, he was allowed to leave his cell for only 15 minutes per day, during which he was expected to exercise, empty his toilet bucket, and have a shower in the communal washroom. The Rhodesia Prison Service maintained different facilities and rules for white and black prisoners,

9044-582: The killing, setting up roadblocks to terrorize whites and attacking white-owned farms in the country's Eastern Highlands . The gang became known for its use of knives and for leaving green handwritten anti-government pamphlets at the scenes of its crimes. In late 1964, Mnangagwa blew up a train near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo ), and was arrested by police inspectors in January 1965 at the Highfield home of Michael Mawema, who may have given them his location. He

9163-553: The late 1940s, Mnangagwa's father Mafidhi had become the acting chief of the village. In 1952, a white Land Development Officer arrived and confiscated some cattle from the villagers, including from an elderly woman who was left with just three. In response, Mafidhi's advisors removed a wheel from the officer's Land Rover , resulting in Mafidhi's arrest. The District Commissioner said he did not want to fight or imprison him, and told him to go to Northern Rhodesia . He complied, settling in

9282-429: The latter being subject to significantly inferior conditions. Black inmates were given just two sets of clothes and were fed plain sadza and vegetables for every meal. During his first four years at Khami, Mnangagwa was assigned to hard labour. After Red Cross representatives visited the prison and complained to the government about the poor conditions of political prisoners, conditions were eased somewhat. Mnangagwa

9401-612: The leading anti-apartheid group in South Africa. Mnangagwa admitted that the South Africa had a "major implant in intelligence under Smith " and that Zimbabwe's post-independence government "initially left these implants". Asked why these agents were allowed to remain the CIO, he responded, "We had no choice. We could not allow our whole intelligence capability to collapse overnight." White CIO agents who cooperated with South Africa included Geoffrey Price , an agent responsible for Prime Minister Mugabe's personal security, who, along with

9520-686: The men he had trained within China: John Chigaba, Robert Garachani, Lloyd Gundu, Felix Santana, and Phebion Shonhiwa. They were meant to be provided with weapons, but none were available. The group rushed to attend the ZANU Congress in the Mkoba suburb of Gwelo , arriving the day before it commenced on 21 May 1964. At the congress, Ndabaningi Sithole was elected president, Takawira vice-president, Herbert Chitepo national chairman, Mugabe secretary-general, and Enos Nkala treasurer. Shortly after

9639-441: The minimum operating level for hydropower. Low rainfalls and overuse of the water by the power plants have left the reservoir near empty, raising the prospect that both Zimbabwe and Zambia will face water shortages. In July and September 2018, The Lusaka Times reported that work had started relating to the plunge pool and cracks in the dam wall. On 22 February 2019 Bloomberg reported "Zambia has reduced hydropower production at

9758-440: The next six years and eight months. At Khami, he was given the number 841/66 and classified as "D" class, reserved for those considered most dangerous, and was held with other political prisoners, whom the government kept in a separate block of cells away from other inmates out of fear that they would influence them ideologically. Mnangagwa's cell, Cell 42, was in "B" Hall, which also housed future Vice-President Kembo Mohadi and

9877-466: The north and south bank of the dam, respectively. The south station belonging to Zimbabwe has been in operation since 1960 and had six generators of 125 megawatts (168,000 hp) capacity each for a total of 750 megawatts (1,010,000 hp). On November 11, 2013 it was announced by Zimbabwe's Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa that capacity at the Zimbabwean (South) Kariba hydropower station would be increased by 300 megawatts. The cost of upgrading

9996-606: The opposition Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai . Mnangagwa served as Minister of Defence from 2009 until 2013, when he became justice minister again. He was also appointed First Vice-President in 2014 and was widely considered a leading candidate to succeed Mugabe. Mnangagwa's ascendancy was opposed by Mugabe's wife, Grace Mugabe , and her Generation 40 political faction. Mugabe dismissed Mnangagwa from his positions in November 2017, and he fled to South Africa . Soon after, General Constantino Chiwenga , backed by elements of

10115-410: The path of government laws, for their days on earth shall be increased. But woe unto those who will choose the path of collaboration with dissidents, for we will certainly shorten their stay on earth." When the massacres began, Mnangagwa was tasked with explaining the violence to the international community, and made most of the public comments on behalf of the Zimbabwean government on the activities of

10234-619: The plight of the people displaced by Kariba Dam, and found the situation little changed since the 1970s. In his view, Kariba remains the worst dam-resettlement disaster in African history. In an effort to regain control of their lives, the local people who were displaced by the Kariba dam's reservoir formed the Basilwizi Trust in 2002. The Trust seeks mainly to improve the lives of people in the area through organizing development projects and serving as

10353-465: The plot when a former army officer in Paris , France , who opposed the coup contacted police and gave them a map and list of those involved. Mnangagwa said that he had no knowledge of the plot, and called it "stupid". Some analysts speculated that rival potential successors to Mugabe, such as former ZANLA leader Solomon Mujuru, may have been behind the scheme in an attempt to discredit Mnangagwa, who had for

10472-621: The political power of members of the Zezuru people, a Shona subgroup. Shamuyarira and Sekeramayi objected to Mnangagwa's appointment to the post because he was Karanga, but did not oppose Mugabe's replacement appointee, Enos Nkala , an Ndebele. Not coincidentally, Sekeramayi himself succeeded Mnangagwa as Minister of State for National Security. Instead, Mugabe appointed Mnangagwa Minister of Justice, succeeding Eddison Zvobgo , another Karanga. Mnangagwa, who expected to be named Minister of Defence or Minister of Home Affairs , considered this appointment

10591-415: The position of Minister of State Security. In 1988, President Mugabe appointed Mnangagwa Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs . According to a 1988 report by the U.S. embassy in Harare, Mugabe originally intended to name Mnangagwa Minister of Defence, but was persuaded not to by Nathan Shamuyarira and Sydney Sekeramayi , the leaders of the "Group of 26", a clique that sought to increase

10710-558: The private sector, but he ultimately accepted the new position. Mnangagwa ran for reelection to Parliament in the 1990 election , this time in the newly created Kwekwe constituency. ZANU–PF ran a well-publicised and organised campaign in Kwekwe , holding meetings between Mnangagwa and community leaders and putting up numerous posters. However, there were also reports of voter intimidation and harassment, including from Women's League members, some of whom said they were coerced into joining

10829-705: The pro-Mnangagwa faction within ZANU–PF is named Lacoste after the French clothing company , known for its crocodile logo. He is also known in his home province of Midlands as "the Godfather". Mnangagwa was included in Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018. Dambudzo Mnangagwa was born on 15 September 1942 in Shabani (now Zvishavane ), a mining town in central Southern Rhodesia . His parents, Mafidhi and Mhurai Mnangagwa, were politically active farmers. He belonged to

10948-501: The request of Josiah Tongogara , and on the basis of the friendship he had developed with Mugabe in prison, became a security chief for ZANU. While there, he met Mugabe again, and became his assistant and bodyguard. At the 1977 ZANU Congress in Chimoio , he was elected special assistant to President Mugabe and a member of ZANU's National Executive. In this capacity, Mnangagwa headed both the civil and military divisions of ZANU. His deputy

11067-423: The rivalry between supporters of Mnangagwa and Mujuru as the most serious division within ZANU–PF in 30 years. Mujuru garnered a large amount of support in ZANU–PF's politburo , central committee , presidium , and among the provincial party chairs. Mnangagwa's support came from the senior ranks of the security establishment, as well as parts of ZANU–PF's parliamentary caucus and younger party members. The rivalry

11186-454: The start of the Gukurahundi . A third was Kevin Woods , an agent until 1986, who served as the CIO's top administrative officer in Bulawayo throughout much of the Gukurahundi . In 1988, Woods was arrested and charged with participating in a car bomb attack targeting an ANC representative in Bulawayo. At his trial, he confessed—freely, he said, because he feared interrogation methods which he

11305-851: The town of Mumbwa with a relative. Several years later, he sent for the rest of his family, including Mnangagwa, to join him. They arrived in Mumbwa by train in 1955, and over the years more extended relatives came to join them. There, Mnangagwa first met Robert Mugabe when Mugabe stayed with the Mnangagwa family for a time while working at a teachers' college in Lusaka . Mugabe inspired Mnangagwa to become involved in anti-colonial politics. Mnangagwa, who had begun his primary education at Lundi Primary School in Shabani, resumed his studies at Myooye School in Mumbwa. Most of his classmates at Myooye had three names, while Mnangagwa only had one, Dambudzo. After finding

11424-413: The upcoming elections. Mnangagwa attempted to distance himself from the controversy, but nevertheless lost his title as ZANU–PF 's secretary for administration, an office he had held for four years and one that gave him the power to appoint his allies to important party positions. In what was considered a demotion, he was given the less influential position of secretary for legal affairs instead. In

11543-452: The war, Mnangagwa enriched himself through mineral wealth seized from the Congo. After Billy Rautenbach , a Zimbabwean businessman, was placed in charge of Gécamines , the Congolese state mining company, Mnangagwa began brokering deals between the company and Zimbabwean connections. Mnangagwa ran in the 2000 parliamentary election as the ZANU–PF candidate for the Kwekwe constituency. He

11662-421: The weak fault zone towards the dam foundation. This reshaping work will be accomplished by constructing a temporary water-tight cofferdam to complete the reshaping work under dry conditions. An energy crisis due to drought and low water levels continued into January 2023, with water level falling to just 1% of capacity and output limited to 800 MW for a fraction of the day. Industrial power users have proposed

11781-555: The whole dam will collapse. If that happened, a tsunami-like wall of water would rip through the Zambezi valley, reaching the Mozambique border within eight hours. The torrent would overwhelm Mozambique's Cahora Bassa Dam and knock out 40% of southern Africa's hydroelectric capacity. Along with the devastation of wildlife in the valley, the Zambezi River Authority estimates that the lives of 3.5 million people are at risk." In June 2015 The Institute of Risk Management South Africa completed

11900-478: The years, Mnangagwa spoke kindly about the country's coalition government in a 2011 interview. He said, "a lot of things have happened that are positive ... we can work together without too many problems." In spite of his compliments of the unity government, Mnangagwa was accused by human rights groups of using his influence in the Joint Operations Command to mobilize violent pro-ZANU–PF groups ahead of

12019-650: Was Vitalis Zvinavashe , head of security for the Military High Command but subordinate to Mnangagwa in the Central Committee's Department of Security. In 1979, Mnangagwa accompanied Mugabe to the negotiations in London that led to the signing of the Lancaster House Agreement , which brought an end to Rhodesia's unrecognised independence and ushered in majority rule. In January 1980, Mnangagwa led

12138-489: Was Minister of State for National Security, the 5th Brigade of the Zimbabwe National Army killed thousands of Ndebele civilians in the Matabeleland region of western Zimbabwe. These massacres, known as the Gukurahundi , lasted from 1983 to 1987, and resulted in an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 deaths. The extent of Mnangagwa's role in the genocide is disputed, with Mnangagwa himself denying any involvement. He asked in

12257-406: Was assigned to be Robert Mugabe 's assistant and bodyguard and accompanied him to the Lancaster House Agreement which resulted in Zimbabwe's recognised independence in 1980. After independence, Mnangagwa held a series of senior cabinet positions under Mugabe. From 1980 to 1988, he was the country's first Minister of State Security , and oversaw the Central Intelligence Organisation . His role in

12376-521: Was born in 1942 in Shabani , Southern Rhodesia , to a large Shona family. His parents were farmers, and in the 1950s he and his family were forced to move to Northern Rhodesia because of his father's political activism. There he became active in anti-colonial politics, and in 1963 he joined the newly formed Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army , the militant wing of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). He returned to Rhodesia in 1964 as leader of

12495-527: Was completed in December 2013. Two additional 180 MW generators were added. The Kariba Dam project was planned and carried out by the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland . The Federation was often referred to as the Central African Federation (CAF). The CAF was a 'federal colony' within the British Empire in southern Africa that existed from 1953 to the end of 1963, comprising

12614-466: Was defeated by Blessing Chebundo of the newly formed Movement for Democratic Change , who received 64% of the vote to Mnangagwa's 35%. Mnangagwa lost in spite of voter intimidation and violence by ZANU–PF, which included dousing Chebundo in petrol and attempting to burn him alive, as well as setting Chebundo's house on fire. After his defeat, Mugabe appointed Mnangagwa to one of the 20 unelected seats in Parliament. On 17 July 2000, Mugabe announced

12733-410: Was done by Sinohydro , at a cost of US$ 533 million. Work started in 2014, and was completed in March 2018. The north station belonging to Zambia has been in operation since 1976, and has four generators of 150 megawatts (200,000 hp) each for a total of 600 megawatts (800,000 hp); work to expand this capacity by an additional 360 megawatts (480,000 hp) to 960 megawatts (1,290,000 hp)

12852-524: Was ethnic as well as political: Mnangagwa drew his support from members of his ethnic group, the Karanga, while Mujuru's supporters were largely Zezuru. At the ZANU–PF party congress held from 1–5 December 2004, Mujuru was named vice-president, while Moyo and other Mnangagwa proponents were disciplined. Moyo was removed from the cabinet and the politburu, and seven other party officials were penalized with suspensions, preventing them from running for Parliament in

12971-611: Was found guilty of setting one of the college's buildings on fire and expelled. After his expulsion, he started a construction company with three other men that lasted three months. He was tasked by UNIP leaders to organise and expand the party's presence in Bancroft , a town in Copperbelt Province , until the end of 1961. He then returned to Lusaka , where he served as secretary of the UNIP Youth League while also working for

13090-525: Was given over to the Rhodesia Special Branch , which tortured him by hanging him upside down and beating him, an ordeal that reportedly caused him to lose hearing in his left ear. He was convicted under Section 37(1)(b) of the Law and Order Maintenance Act and sentenced to death, but his lawyers successfully argued that he was under 21, the minimum age for execution. Depending on which birth year

13209-487: Was given to Sydney Sekeramayi in the new cabinet. By contrast, Mnangagwa's faction received only two key portfolios: Patrick Chinamasa as minister of finance, and Mnangagwa himself as justice minister. The political scientist Eldred Masunungure attributed the Mujuru faction's gains to its influence in the ZANU–PF presidium. Masunungure described Mnangagwa's move from being minister of defence to becoming minister of justice as

13328-516: Was given to the displaced Tonga. British author David Howarth described the efforts in Northern Rhodesia: "Everything that a government can do on a meagre budget is being done. Demonstration gardens have been planted, to try to teach the Tonga more sensible methods of agriculture, and to try to find cash crops that they can grow. The hilly land has been plowed in ridge contours to guard against erosion. In Sinazongwe, an irrigated garden has grown

13447-558: Was not sure how the President would react to the allegations against Mujuru, but said he was satisfied with the outcome. He added that he had not known he was going to be named vice-president until Mugabe announced it. Mnangagwa was sworn in as vice-president on 12 December 2014, while retaining his post as Minister of Justice. Soon afterward, it was reported that Mugabe had begun delegating some presidential duties to Mnangagwa. On 11 January 2016, Mnangagwa became acting president while Mugabe

13566-525: Was released and deported to Zambia, where his parents were still living. He was brought to the Livingstone border post and handed over to Zambian police, after which a ZANLA representative met him at the Victoria Falls Bridge and took him to Lusaka. In Lusaka, Mnangagwa continued his education at the University of Zambia , where he was active in the student board for politics, graduating with

13685-507: Was reportedly back in Mugabe's favour, and the president was now said to be dismayed at the political activities of Mnangagwa's rival, Vice-President Mujuru, and her husband, former army chief Solomon Mujuru . In May 2007, the Zimbabwean government announced that it had foiled an alleged coup d'état involving nearly 400 soldiers and high-ranking members of the military that would have occurred on either 2 or 15 June 2007. The alleged leaders of

13804-513: Was the first competitive vote for speaker since the country's independence. Rather than having lost the president's favour, Mugabe likely excluded Mnangagwa from the cabinet because he was arranging for him to serve as speaker instead. In October 2000, Mnangagwa thwarted an attempt by the MDC members of Parliament to impeach Mugabe. During his tenure as speaker, Mnangagwa continued to be subject to international scrutiny regarding his mining interests in

13923-684: Was then allowed to volunteer as a tailor, as he knew how to use a sewing machine. After two years mending inmates' clothes, he was made to rejoin other prisoners in hard labour, which involved crushing rocks in a large pit in the prison yard. Mnangagwa was discharged from Khami on 6 January 1972 and transferred back to Salisbury Central Prison, where he was detained alongside other revolutionaries, including Mugabe, Nkala, Nyagumbo, Tekere and Didymus Mutasa . There, he befriended Mugabe and attended his prison classes, after which he passed his O-Levels and A-Levels . Together, they studied law via correspondence courses. Mnangagwa initially wanted to pursue

14042-489: Was very familiar from his time at the CIO—to being a double agent for South Africa. Woods' confession, part of a high-profile case that reached Zimbabwe's Supreme Court , brought new attention to the wide scope of South Africa's infiltration of Zimbabwe's intelligence apparatus, especially in relation to the Gukurahundi . The Woods affair was embarrassing for Mnangagwa, and according to one source, caused Mugabe to remove him from

14161-412: Was widely seen as a demotion by Mugabe in retribution for Mnangagwa's involvement in the plot for him to become vice-president over Mujuru, the president's choice. In 2005, Mnangagwa helped carry out Operation Murambatsvina , an initiative in which urban slums, home to many people who opposed Mugabe's rule, were destroyed, resulting in the homelessness of thousands of the urban poor. By 2007, Mnangagwa

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