Mnangagwa continues on charm offensive

ACTING President Emmerson Mnangagwa has publicly ignored attacks by members of a Zanu-PF faction known as the G40 and continued on a charm offensive that has won him admirers and sympathisers in the battle to succeed President Robert Mugabe.

Of late, Mnangagwa has been on the receiving end of vitriolic attacks from G40 members seeking to block his chances of succeeding Mugabe.

On Saturday, Mnangagwa went on a charm offensive when he told delegates attending National Presidential Prayer breakfast meeting in Harare that the "country needed leaders of integrity".

Analysts yesterday described Mnangagwa's "quiet diplomacy" as a sign of political maturity and tactful strategy to spite his detractors.