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Zimbabwean media publisher and 2017 coup cheerleader Trevor Ncube says in a dramatic Damascene moment President Emmerson Mnangagwa is worse than the late ex-president Robert Mugabe who ruled for 37 years, bequeathing a legacy of an impoverished nation.

In a bitter parting shot after resigning from the Presidential Advisory Council, Ncube said Mnangagwa has done badly and hit new depths of failure that are worse than those of Mugabe whose rule and leadership were disastrous for the nation. Zimbabwe will take ages to recover.

Ncube said Mnangagwa's rule is scary as he has subverted the constitution and captured the judiciary in his relentless power consolidation and retention agenda. Mnangagwa's reign is characterised by political violence, brutality and lawlessness that echoes Mugabe’s dark years.

In a sharp attack that would almost certainly trigger official indignation, Ncube noted Mnangagwa and his coup allies were motivated by personal, economic/business and ethnic interests to topple Mugabe, not by the need to democratise the nation and ensure economic prosperity.

Throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Mnangagwa, Ncube sais he joined the gravy train thinking the President would seize the moment after Mugabe to change things and even address Gukurahundi.
He said he would have imagined Mnangagwa was thinking like that and would reform.

Ncube attacked everyone who didn't support the coup and his views including the opposition, civil society, media and the general public. He became a symbol of coup cheerleading.
His critics denounced him as a political turncoat who was noisily trying to join the feeding trough.

Ncube was rabidly opposed to main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and Morgan Tsvangirai.
"If Morgan Tsvangirai is your hero then you don't belong to a new transformative Zimbabwe," he said in 2016 as he began to beat the war drums for the coup and mobilise support for it ahead.