Emmerson Mnangagwa

=== Legal studies and ZANU leadership: 1975–1980 ===
In Lusaka, Mnangagwa continued his education at the [[University of Zambia]], where he was active in the student board for politics, graduating with a postgraduate law degree.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":13" /><ref name=":28" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pidgin/tori-42069531|title=Wetin you suppose know about new Zimbabwe President?|date=2017-11-24|work=BBC News Pidgin|access-date=2018-07-12|language= pcm}}</ref> He then completed his [[articling]] with the Lusaka-based law firm of the Rhodesian-born [[Enoch Dumbutshena]], who would later become Zimbabwe's first black judge.<ref name=":9">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B2Jp-k0WVWAC&q=Enoch+Dumbutshena+Mnangagwa&pg=PA107|title=Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman|last=Nyarota|first=Geoffrey|date=2006|publisher=Zebra|isbn=9781770071124|pages=107–108; 117|language=en|access-date=25 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201031358/https://books.google.ca/books?id=B2Jp-k0WVWAC&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=Enoch+Dumbutshena+Mnangagwa&source=bl&ots=NK7Nx56djb&sig=HAlvldoiMKUeGnvn7I_HySOurPU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwirvounodnXAhWp7IMKHVALD0EQ6AEITTAG#v=onepage&q=Enoch%20Dumbutshena%20Mnangagwa&f=false|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was admitted to the Zambian [[Bar (law)|bar]] in 1976.<ref name=":28" /> At the same time, Mnangagwa was also serving as the secretary for ZANU's Zambia Division, based in Lusaka.<ref name=":13" /> After a couple of years working for a private law firm, he moved to Mozambique.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":13" /> He visited [[Maputo]] at the request of [[Josiah Tongogara]], and on the basis of the friendship he had developed with Mugabe in prison, became a security chief for ZANU.<ref name=":9" /> While there, he met Mugabe again, and became his assistant and bodyguard.<ref name=":2" /> At the 1977 ZANU Congress in [[Chimoio]], he was elected special assistant to President Mugabe and a member of ZANU's National Executive.<ref name=":13" /><ref name=":15" /> In this capacity, Mnangagwa headed both the civil and military divisions of ZANU.<ref name=":13" /><ref name=":15" /> His deputy was [[Vitalis Zvinavashe]], head of security for the Military High Command but subordinate to Mnangagwa in the Central Committee's Department of Security.<ref name=":13" />

In 1979, Mnangagwa accompanied Mugabe to the negotiations in [[London]] that led to the signing of the [[Lancaster House Agreement]], which brought an end to Rhodesia's [[Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence|unrecognised independence]] and ushered in majority rule.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":13" /> In January 1980, Mnangagwa led the first group of civilian leaders, including Mutasa and [[Eddison Zvobgo]], as they made their way from Maputo into what would soon be the [[Zimbabwe|Republic of Zimbabwe]].<ref name=":13" />