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Message: [QUOTE="drifter, post: 87781"] Yeah, you've kinda basically cracked the code on this one. So here's the deal. Mnangagwa is terrified that if Chiwenga takes over, the guy will come for his colleagues' interests. They have this whole history where Chiwenga was basically promised the top job after helping with the 2017 coup against Mugabe, and Mnangagwa just... never honored that deal. Mnangagwa plays to the beat of his own drum; he is shrewd and very smart. A successor, well, not Tagwirei as such (he could be, I will not expagorate further), but to take your example into effect: The problem with installing Tagwirei as successor is that the man has zero popular appeal. He is a dismal politician, to say the least. He is a person who goes about throwing mud at the wall, hoping it sticks, except he does it without money. Put him in a direct election against someone like Nelson Chamisa, and he gets smoked. So what do you do? You change the rules. The rest is classified info. [/QUOTE]