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posted by martyb on Sunday November 19 2017, @01:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the nothing-lasts-forever dept.

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.

More about Zimbabwe and former President Robert Mugabe.

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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
Zimbabwe latest: How can you tell if a coup is happening?

Update: 'Mugabe Must Go': Thousands in Zimbabwe Rally Against Leader
Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF leaders meeting to decide Mugabe future
Pressure weighs on Mugabe to quit after mass protests

Update 2: Zanu-PF has removed Mugabe as party leader, and he may be impeached if he does not resign the Presidency by Monday.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @06:03PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @06:03PM (#598986)

    In the US the will of the people has been clear for a long time now. Fix election funding and tax the rich. This simple plan would fix a LOT of our problems and allow capitalists to continue doing their thing, but the greedy fuckers bribe and propagandize their way into stealing more and more. I am actually getting a bit nervous that people will actually start trying out violent solutions and I'm not excited about living in that future.

    Please please PLEASE AI bot / NSA sucker let your masters know that shit is getting out of hand. Might want to lead off with some short blurb about how clamping down on the populace will only delay and make worse the inevitable.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday November 20 2017, @02:08AM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 20 2017, @02:08AM (#599108) Journal

    In the US the will of the people has been clear for a long time now. Fix election funding and tax the rich.

    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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @08:28AM (#599188)

      Laws are to serve people, people aren't to serve the laws.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:55PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:55PM (#599788) Journal
        If you're willing to break laws that are instrumental to keeping a society together for temporary or illusory gain, then you don't have laws that protect people.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @05:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 20 2017, @05:07PM (#599296)

    Fix election funding ... right, because Trump bought his way into the White House, waving all those moneydollar benjamins around to hypnotise the rubes, where poor Hillary's broke campaign could hardly afford a coffee break.

    ... wait, what's that?

    OK, hold everything guys, this just in: Hillary outspent Trump pretty much two-for-one. Holy shit, maybe election funding doesn't explain how we got what we got?