Social media reacts to Mnangagwa's move to flee from Mugabe
9 November 2017
Cape Town - Social Media users have reacted with mixed emotions after ex-vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa fled the country "to avoid life threatening situation".
Mnangagwa issued a direct challenge to Preesident Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace in a statement sent in exile on Wednesday.
Some Twitter users labelled the ex-vice president a "coward" who had "served the Mugabes very well for nearly four decades".
But some users were sympathetic towards Mnangagwa who until recently was tipped as Mugabe's heir.