Month: November 2017

ZIMBABWE: PRESIDENT/SABANEWS/21/11/17 SABANews 1

HARARE – ZIMBABWE is waiting eagerly to see the exit of President ROBERT MUGABE, amid calls for the arrest of his wife and her close allies in the ZANU PF Party.

Defence Forces Commander General CONSTANTINO CHIWENGA says MUGABE has spoken with his former Deputy, EMMERSON MNANGAGWA, whom he fired TWO weeks ago and is expected back in the country soon.

General CHIWENGA has addressed the media at the JOSIAH MAGAMA TONGOGARA Barracks in HARARE, saying the TWO men are to discuss ways to chat the way forward for the SADC country following their recent fallout.

President MUGABE dismissed MNANGAGWA after FIRST Lady GRACE MUGABE accused the Vice President of fomenting divisions in ZANU PF and plotting to topple her husband.

The removal of MNANGAGWA from both government and party was to be followed by mass dismissals of top civil servants and military personnel accused of association with the former Vice President.

However, the military quickly moved in and launched what they have dubbed Operation Restore Legacy.

General CHIWENGA says the security forces have no plans to take over government but have had to intervene following political developments that were now threatening national security.

He has commended ZIMBABWEANS for their display of composure, order, and discipline during a variety of demonstrations to remove MUGABE, the FIRST Lady and a group of crooked top ZANU PF leaders.

General CHIWENGA says ZIMBABWEANS should remain calm and patient, observe and respect the law; while political players, including members of ZANU PF, and war veterans, should avoid actions that threaten peace, life and property.

He says the military remain a people’s force and security service, which is why uppermost in their mind is the conclusion of their whole operation with the minimum inconvenience and certainly without any collateral loss of life, injury or destruction of property.

President MUGABE has admitted events in the ruling party had become a threat to both national security and development, saying he agrees with the move his soldiers have taken to correct things.

He has given a televised State of the Nation Address at State House saying there is a crisis in the country, and the concerns by the military and citizens relating to the economy are genuine.

Meanwhile, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, MISHECK SIBANDA, has invited ministers to a Cabinet meeting that had been due this morning at State House; although details of the gathering are still not available.

The call comes after ZANU PF Information and Publicity Secretary SIMON KHAYA MOYO says the party has formally notified MUGABE of a Central Committee decision to recall him from the position of President and FIRST Secretary.

KHAYA MOYO has issued a statement saying ZANU PF has also instructed the party Chief Whip to go ahead with impeachment processes against MUGABE after failing to get his expected response from the Speaker of Parliament.

The ZIMBABWEAN ruling party is this afternoon expected to table the impeachment motion to remove the Head of State when the National Assembly meets./Sabanews/cam

ZIMBABWE: ARREST/HERALD/10/11/17 SABANews 1

BULAWAYO – Police in the ZIMBABWEAN commercial capital, BULAWAYO, have arrested THREE men and ONE woman and charged them with undermining the authority of President ROBERT MUGABE.

ZIMBABWE: POLITICS/SABANEWS/9/11/17 SABANews 1

HARARE – The recent dismissal of Vice President EMMERSON MNANGAGWA of ZIMBABWE from both government and the ruling ZANU PF Party has cast a cloud of confusion over the SADC country.

President ROBERT MUGABE fired his deputy after FIRST Lady GRACE MUGABE accused Mr MNANGAGWA of undermining the authority of her husband and fomenting divisions within the former liberation movement.

The Head of State supported the accusations, saying the former Vice President has for some time, kept quiet while a group of people campaigned against President MUGABE in the name of Mr MNANGAGWA.

President MUGABE took action on MONDAY before his Politburo fired their former colleague from the ruling party yesterday (WEDNESDAY), while also lining up his perceived sympathisers both in the party and in government for the same fate.

Organisers of the current presidential rallies have advised the Head of State to crack the whip on all people who have suspected or known ties with the former Vice President; and he has assured them that is what is going to happen soon.

The 10 political provinces, after endorsing the FIRST Lady as incoming Vice President of the country, have already submitted names of leaders linked to Mr MNANGAGWA, including veteran Central Committee and Politburo members, they want out of government and party.

President MUGABE says he cannot stand by and watch mischievous elements destroying and distorting the revolution; but his critics accuse him of hypocrisy, claiming his campaign aims to sneak his wife into the presidium through the back door.

Media reports say fighters of the war that dislodged the RHODESIAN-BRITISH colonial rule, instead, want him, the FIRST Lady, and a number of other party stalwarts, out of the way.

The NEWSDAY says the ZIMBABWE NATIONAL LIBERATION WAR VETERANS’ ASSOCIATION has described President MUGABE as an unrepentant and deceitful tyrant, whose end is inevitable.

The group has issued a statement soon after the ejection of Mr MNANGAGWA from ZANU PF, saying President MUGABE has betrayed the revolution – hence they are now reclaiming their party and want him to quit its leadership with immediate effect.

The former guerrillas say President MUGABE is free to go and form his party with his wife, because the PATRIOTIC FRONT belongs to the fighters of the liberation war.

Their statement, signed by Association Spokesperson VICTOR MATEMADANDA, says the uncalled-for and abrupt sacking of the Vice President has shocked them; and they definitely affirm President MUGABE is deceitful and not a revolutionary.

They allege the Head of State actually supports, but pretends to hate, the principles of the BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY that colonised the country, and his knighting by the Queen of ENGLAND confirms their thinking.

Actually, records show President MUGABE was in 1994 created an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, a prize for doing something outstanding for the BRITISH Monarch.

King GEORGE the FIRST in 1725 established the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, or order of BRITISH Knighthood, as a reward either for military service or for exemplary civilian merit.

The war veterans, whose group has fallen out with ZANU PF and has been replaced by another faction, say they are launching an exercise to mobilise the masses against what they claim are hijackers of the ruling party.

However, President MUGABE has not responded to them but has blasted his former deputy for allegedly sponsoring disturbances during his NINTH Presidential Youth Interface rally at the weekend in BULAWAYO City.

He says Mr MNANGAGWA organised and sponsored the people who booed the FIRST Lady when she addressed the crowd, to display a picture showing him as the most popular.

On the other hand, Ms MUGABE has also assured her husband he is going to remain the President because GOD anointed him to lead the country, and no one is going to remove him.

Her comments come amid reports saying Mr MNANGAGWA has pledged to fight President MUGABE and remove him from leading the party and government in the next few weeks.

Media reports claim he has issued a statement from SOUTH AFRICA, to where he allegedly fled this TUESDAY and from where he has challenged President MUGABE and the FIRST Lady; accusing them of living in the past and hindering national progress.

Mr MNANGAGWA has called on ZIMBABWEAN to bury their differences and rebuild a new and prosperous ZIMBABWE that tolerates divergent views, respects opinion of others, and does not isolate itself from the rest of the world.

Thus, the stage has been set. Politically, ZIMBABWE is now clearly a divided nation as the majority of people in the ruling party find themselves with TWO choices of following either of the factions that are forming in their organisation./Sabanews/cam