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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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(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday November 22 2017, @04:52AM
Maybe it's Fake News, maybe it's a hoax, but they're saying he's resigned now. They say he wrote a letter, that he resigned in a letter. If you think about it, something's not right there. He gives a speech, he says he's not resigning. They threaten to impeach him, he says he's staying. He says he's still their president. Obviously, he doesn't want to resign, right? Then this letter comes out and they say he resigned with the letter? It stinks. They put a lot of pressure on him and he didn't resign. Then finally he resigned, or they faked a letter. I think it's terrible. Here he was, the democratically elected president. Who won in a landslide. And maybe the election was rigged, but he won. So he accepted it. Who wouldn't? You don't ask why you won, you accept the result.
And four years later, some military guys come and arrest him, arrest his wife, arrest his loyal supporters. And tell him he can't be president any more. It's disgraceful. It's a terrible thing for Zimbabwe, for the people of Zimbabwe. And we should all be worried. Because it's a very bad example. It puts a bad example out there.