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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Former MDC member of Parliament Eddie Cross says soon after the November 2017 military coup, President Emmerson Mnangagwa asked him for his opinion on how the country could be fixed.<\/p>\n

Cross recently wrote President Mnangagwa\u2019s controversial 130-page biography, A life of Sacrifice: Emmerson Mnangagwa, with copies worth US$755 700 reportedly sold on the day of release.<\/p>\n

The outspoken former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was still an MDC MP when he drove to Mnangagwa\u2019s farm in Kwekwe at his invitation where he met July Moyo (Minister of Local Government and Public Works) and other three cabinet ministers.<\/p>\n

Cross revealed this during an interview on Trevor Ncube\u2019s \u201cIn Conversation With Trevor\u201d programme recently. He said:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a really strange story. When they mounted the coup against Robert Mugabe in 2017, I was still a member of Parliament in those days. I had been part of the process to remove him from power.<\/p>\n

I was having lunch with friends in Bulawayo and I got a phone call from Kwekwe. A young voice said to me, \u2018Mr Cross, the President would like to see you\u2019, and it was Emmerson Mnangagwa.<\/p>\n

I said, well, I\u2019m in Bulawayo. He said, \u2018well, he wants to see you this afternoon\u2019.<\/p>\n

Watch the video below for more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Former MDC member of Parliament Eddie Cross says soon after the November 2017 military coup, President Emmerson Mnangagwa asked him for his opinion on how the country could be fixed. Cross recently wrote President Mnangagwa\u2019s controversial 130-page biography, A life of Sacrifice: Emmerson Mnangagwa, with copies worth US$755 700 reportedly sold on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":46939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,1888,6403,5510,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-46940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-eddie-cross","14":"tag-in-conversation-with-trevor","15":"tag-trevor-ncube","16":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"\nMnangagwa Asked Me How He Could Fix Zimbabwe, In 2017 \u2013 Cross - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former MDC member of Parliament Eddie Cross says soon after the November 2017 military coup, President Emmerson Mnangagw ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mnangagwa-asked-me-how-he-could-fix-zimbabwe-in-2017-cross\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mnangagwa Asked Me How He Could Fix Zimbabwe, In 2017 \u2013 Cross\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former MDC member of Parliament Eddie Cross says soon after the November 2017 military coup, President Emmerson Mnangagw ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mnangagwa-asked-me-how-he-could-fix-zimbabwe-in-2017-cross\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-20T17:16:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-20T16:19:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/09\/img-6148b48f76743.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1125\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"571\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mnangagwa-asked-me-how-he-could-fix-zimbabwe-in-2017-cross\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mnangagwa-asked-me-how-he-could-fix-zimbabwe-in-2017-cross\",\"name\":\"Mnangagwa Asked Me How He Could Fix Zimbabwe, In 2017 \u2013 Cross - 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