Emmerson Mnangagwa is a politician and former vice president of Zimbabwe.

Mnangagwa, born September 15, 1946, is nicknamed "Ngwena," or "The Crocodile."

Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is a Zimbabwean politician who has been Vice-President of Zimbabwe since 2014.

He was Minister of State Security from 1980 to 1988, Minister of Justice from 1988 to 2000, Speaker of Parliament from 2000 to 2005, Minister of Rural Housing from 2005 to 2009, Minister of Defense from 2009 to 2013, and has served as Minister of Justice since 2013. He was born on 15 September 1946.

In 1963, soon after modern Zimbabwe's ruling party ZANU-PF was formed, Mnangagwa was part of the first group of young party leaders sent to China for military training.

Upon his return, he earned his nickname by leading a group of fighters called the Crocodile Gang during the country's war of independence against Rhodesia's white-minority rule.

Mnangagwa's gang blew up several trains. He was arrested in 1965 and sentenced to death. He escaped that fate because his lawyers successfully argued that he was under 21 and hence underage for the hangman's noose.

But he was brutally tortured and spent 10 years in jail, where he met and befriended Robert Mugabe.

Mnangagwa was released after serving his sentence and deported to Zambia, where he studied law.

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