Mugabe was pictured at a graduation ceremony today after negotiating with the military at State House yesterday
Mugabe is refusing to step down, insisting he remains Zimbabwe’s only legitimate ruler
Zanu-PF officials are making plans to throw out and impeach Mugabe if he refuses to quit
Military forces retain control of Zimbabwe but allowed Mugabe out of house arrest
Former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, known as the Crocodile, could now take control
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is calling for Mugabe’s immediate resignation
- 16pm: Botswana president says Mugabe must resign
- Reuters’ Ed Crowley tweeted: “Botswana President Khama tells me Mugabe must go, has no diplomatic support in region.”
- 06pm: ‘Mugabe will not be allowed to remain in power’, says war veteran
- Chris Mutsvangwa, leader of Zimbabwe’s war veterans, said that President Robert Mugabe would not be allowed to resist the military and remain in power.
- He added that the veterans saluted Zimbabwe’s military for seizing power from the 93-year-old.
- 50am: Botswana President says Mugabe should end attempts to stay on
- Mugabe should end his attempts to remain in office after the military seized power this week as he has no regional diplomatic support to stay in power, Botswana President Ian Khama said.
- The military intervention, which political sources say could pave the way to a national unity government after 37 years of Mugabe rule, also presented “an opportunity to put Zimbabwe on a path to peace and prosperity”, Khama told Reuters.
- “I don’t think anyone should be President for that amount of time. We are Presidents, we are not monarchs. It’s just common sense,” Khama said.
11.40am: Mugabe left the graduation ceremony when it ended
11.15am: Mugabe to ‘cap general’s wife’
Robert Mugabe is expected to present Constantine Chiwenga’s wife with a degree at a graduation ceremony in Harare, days after being detained by the general.
Journalist Brezh Malaba tweeted: “The grotesque irony. The General’s wife is among the graduands who’ll be capped by Mugabe at the Zimbabwe Open University today.
“You couldn’t make it up!”
10.31am: Mugabe ‘falls asleep’ at graduation ceremony
Robert Mugabe appeared to fall asleep at his first public appearance since the military coup earlier this week. according to Head of Reuters’ Africa Bureau
Ed Cropley, head of Reuters’ Africa bureau, tweeted: “Mugabe appears to have fallen asleep at uni ceremony – or ‘resting his eyes’, as his spokesman likes to say.”
9.49am: Mugabe greeted by cheers at graduation ceremony
Mugabe is attending a Zimbabwe Open University graduation ceremony in Harare in his first public appearance since a military coup.
Dressed in a blue and yellow academic gown and mortar board hat, the 93-year-old sat in large wooden chair at the front the hall.
He was greeted by ululations from the crowd as he declared the ceremony open.
9.14am: Mugabe makes first public appearance
Mugabe has arrived at the Zimbabwe Open University for a graduation ceremony. There is “tight security” at the event, according to Zim Media Review.
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Zimbabweans were weighing an uncertain future without President Robert Mugabe on November 16 after the army took power and placed the 93-year-old veteran, once seen as a liberation hero, under house arrest.
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