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Zimbabwe awaits news on Mugabe's future
Zimbabweans are waiting to see what steps the military will take next after seizing control of the country. President Robert Mugabe is said to be under house arrest but the whereabouts of his wife Grace, who was bidding to succeed him as president, are unknown.
South African ministers have been in the capital Harare meeting the army and political parties. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) regional bloc will hold emergency talks on Thursday.
President Mugabe, 93, has been in control of Zimbabwe since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. But the power struggle over who might succeed him, between Mrs Mugabe and her rival former vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa, has split the ruling Zanu-PF party in recent months.
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CNN: Zimbabwe: Talks underway to form transitional government, source says
NYT editorial: For Zimbabwe, a Coup Isn't the Answer
Extras from BBC: Zimbabwe: Did Robert Mugabe finally go too far? - BBC News
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Update: 'Mugabe Must Go': Thousands in Zimbabwe Rally Against Leader
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Update 2: Zanu-PF has removed Mugabe as party leader, and he may be impeached if he does not resign the Presidency by Monday.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday November 20 2017, @02:08AM (2 children)
So what? Even if we ignore that these "people" have an extraordinary difficulty in voting for people who would do the above (which strongly undermines the claim), we need to recall that we have laws. Past attempts at this fixing have been pretty clueless about that. If you repeatedly break laws in order to get what you think you want (for example, the McCain-Feingold [wikipedia.org] campaign finance law that has been mostly repeated by the Supreme Court), then it's likely that what you'll have at the end is worse than what you started with. Rule of law is more important than minor issues with election funding and envious tax the rich mentality.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @08:28AM (1 child)
Laws are to serve people, people aren't to serve the laws.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:55PM