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Mar 22 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
UK-based Zimbabwean legal scholar Alex Magaisa says the problem with business elites and experts who joined President Emmerson Mnangagwa's moribund Presidential Advisory Council was not just being enablers, but staying on as the ship headed for an iceberg crash like the Titanic. Image
Commenting on media owner Trevor Ncube's quitting of the Mnangagwa's PR outfit, Magaisa said: "For many hearing for the first time of Ncube having resigned from Mnangagwa’s close, his comments sounded like a Damascene moment. It was not that he had supported the coup, no.
"He was not the only person who jumped onto the coup bandwagon. Men and women of stronger moral fibre fell for the ruse.
"The difference is that elites like Ncube carried on even when it became clear that the ship was headed for an iceberg. They were part of a small band that kept playing as the ship was sinking."

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