Zimbabwe Current Affairs

The BIGGEST PARTY TONIGHT IN AFRICA, DESTINATION ZIMABWE  HARARE, Zimbabwe—President Robert Mugabe has resigned, the speaker of Zimbabwe’s parliament said Tuesday, one week after tanks rolled into the capital and took control of the government. Speaker Jacob Mudenda said he received a letter from Mr. Mugabe saying he would step down. The announcement was made as lawmakers were debating a motion to impeach the world’s oldest head of state, who has ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years. It brings to an end a ​week of twists and turns for the resource-rich Southern African country and Mr. Mugabe, 93 years old, whose grip on power had become increasingly untenable. Cheering crowds stormed the streets of the capital Harare, where hundreds of thousands marched on Saturday in their first free demonstrations in decades. Mr. Mugabe, a former schoolteacher who toppled white-minority rule to become Zimbabwe’s first black leader, has been under house arrest since Tuesday night, when the mili...

Zimbabwe University Students Demo Against Grace Mugabe Students at the flagship University of Zimbabwe (UZ) demonstrated on campus on Monday‚ demanding that Grace Mugabe’s doctorate be recalled and her husband removed from office. President Robert Mugabe is the chancellor of all ten of Zimbabwe’s state universities. While under purported house arrest on Friday‚ he appeared at the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) graduation‚ but Midlands State University‚ Bindura University and UZ are yet to hold their ceremonies. The demonstration was done in a free atmosphere‚ as all forces in Zimbabwe push for the end of an era. “We won’t write examinations until he steps down and his wife’s degree is revoked‚” a voice boomed from the public address system on campus. Others added that forgoing exams is a small price to pay for the national interest. When news of a “coup that was not actually a coup” filtered through last Tuesday morning‚ UZ cleared the campus and exams were postponed until fu...