The Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa was on Monday, September 4, 2023, inaugurated for a second term in office, after being announced the winner of the still disputed election, which was held in August, as he had vowed to uplift a significant number of citizens out of poverty.
Zimbabweans had gone to exercise their franchise on August 23, to seat a new president in power and to vote in new parliamentarians and local council members, however, the chief opposition party had called the election results, ‘a gigantic fraud.’
Mnangagwa during his speech after he was sworn in, had appealed for unity in the outcome of the polls, pledging to resuscitate the failing economy.
“The impressionable policies which began in the first term of my administration are on course to lift millions of citizens out of poverty.” Mnangagwa had remarked.
Thousands of pro-Mnangagwa’s administration—most of them having been transported in to the ceremony from across the country—had chanted and cavorted as the 80-year-old Zimbabwean leader walked into the National Sports Stadium together with his wife.
