Daily Mail: 'Mugabe is mad... we must remove him': Seething chiefs say 'the old man' went OFF SCRIPT when he should have resigned the presidency and warn him the time for 'kindness' is over
* Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, 93, clung to power on Sunday night with a rambling speech in Harare
* The dictator vowed to hold a Zanu PF party conference in the coming weeks and said he would preside over it
* Tweets from his opponents suggest he was supposed to deliver a resignation speech, but went off-script
* Messages vowed to force 'the old man' from power as opposition leaders said he will be impeached Monday
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe went off script when he refused to resign the presidency during a rambling speech on Sunday night, his opponents have claimed.
Sitting alongside a cadre of generals who have been keeping him under house arrest since Wednesday, the 93-year-old boldly vowed to fix problems within the ruling Zanu PF party himself rather than hand power to ousted vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa.
As Zimbabweans and millions watching across the world digested the news, a tweet from party headquarters - which has been issuing statements on behalf of Mugabe's opponents since the military took power - said: 'All the old man needed to do was stick to the script.
'Now we must remove him. We gave Robert Gabriel Mugabe every chance to have a dignified exit. But he is mad.'
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WNU Editor: I watched part of the speech (see video below) .... he is not aware on what is happening around him, nor is he aware on what are the consequences of his actions to him and to the future of Zimbabwe. They gave him a door to leave gracefully .... and it is obvious (to me) that he is not even aware of that. I can almost predict what will happen now .... the gloves will be taken off, a resignation letter will be produced where he has resigned, and that is the last that we will be seeing or hearing from this ex-tyrant. The man who will replace him has already returned to the country, and he has the full support of the security forces and of the party. He does not strike me as someone who is going to wait any more longer .... Figure known as ‘Crocodile’ could replace Zimbabwe president (AP).
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4 comments:
Mugabe is a stubborn, obstinate, bitter man. He had discipline in his youth, but old age has robbed of that. He grew up bitter due to apartheid.
He is too old, too obstinate, and too senile to change his stripes.
They can and should roll him into a private old folks home.
Will he know the difference?
Mugabe is out of the reality since a long time.
Fingers crossed that the same will happen to Trump :)
Anon,
I have not changed. You have not changed either.
Trump has been in office less than a year. Mugabe was in office 33 years or more. A 1st grader could do that math. Trump will be gone in 3 to 7 years. If you continually conflate Trump with real dictators, you will become an ass or a thug.
P.S. I think Harveywood is bullshit. I did not know that Zimbabwe had diamonds. West Africa (region) and South Africa, sure, but Zimbabwe not so much. So the good people of Harveywood made the movie "Blood Diamonds". 'Big whup'. So they got a law on 'conflict diamonds'. Diamonds are about as good as gold oil or diamonds. They are fungible. Even if a particular source is not, they supply a demand somewhere like China or North Korea. It does not make a difference. People like diCaprio will talk a good game, but they have no stomach to take on men like Mugabe and they have no skin in the game. diCaprio has enough of a ____ to have his bodyguards beat up another guy.
So many little Eichmanns, who are celebrating Mugabe's ouster would have done nothing had he been in power another 7 years. Okay that is not fair. They would have come up with a mean #hashtag campaign and other ways to virtue signal.
I would tell people to read the following article and come up with your own metrics, because sociology and psychology will fail you big time. They are politicized. There isat least on really good ideals in the essay.
"What the idea of civilisational 'collapse' says about history | Aeon Essays"
"Trump is not Mugabe. (This is no election. This is a brutal war)" - The "Gurdian"
"Zimbabwe: End Repression in Marange Diamond Fields" - HRW
ZANU recruited mainly from the majority Shona people, whereas the ZAPU had its greatest support among the minority Ndebele. In early 1983, the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade began a crackdown on dissidents in Matabeleland North, one of the homelands of the Ndebele.
"New documents allege Mugabe’s complicity in 1980s massacres"
theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/22/zimbabwe1
hrw.org/news/2009/06/26/zimbabwe-end-repression-marange-diamond-fields
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gukurahundi
dailymaverick.co.za/article/2015-05-18-new-documents-allege-mugabes-complicity-in-1980s-massacres/#.WhLNtyZzJPY
npr.org/2011/03/30/134955995/a-journalist-bears-witness-to-mugabes-massacre
youtube.com/watch?v=S3-vI_gwMWw
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