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Stores Day November 16th, 2017, from slate, it's the Giestime,

Mike Pasca, Emerson Mungagua, is the new leader of Zimbabwe.

Assumed for a long time to be the heir apparent, I guess assumed implies.

Now, apparent, anyway, to long time leader Robert Mugabe,

it did appear as recently as last week that Mungagua had been usurped,

denied that post-Grace Mugabe, the dictator's wife,

froze him out, power play.

But Emerson Mungagua is back, and now that Mugabe has been deposed,

in a coup, the crocodile has shown his teeth.

Oh, what? What's that? You haven't heard?

Mungagua is known as the crocodile.

A nickname for a cunning political operator that really needs no explanation,

and yet explain they must.

Here's Jason Burke of the Guardian speaking to NPR.

He's known as the crocodile.

Okay, now let's pause for a second to consider why a politician

who flourished as a brutal dictator's right-hand man

might be called the crocodile. What are the possibilities?

He's called the crocodile because the fashionable ladies of Harare

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