Zimbabwe Current Affairs

Soon to be President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa has landed at Manyame airbase where he has met army generals for debriefing. Mnangagwa will leave for Zanu PF headquarters where he is expected to meet the Zanu PF's politburo and address a crowd that has been waiting since 13:00 for his arrival. Most of the other Zanu-PF members have arrived in the last hour at the party headquarters.  The privately run Newsday newspaper reported that Mnangagwa would be met on arrival by army commander Constantino Chiwenga and ruling party officials and then was expected "to meet Mugabe for a briefing." Several hundred people gathered in anticipation of Mnangagwa's arrival. Some carried signs with images of him, suggesting a certain level of organisation behind the jubilant turnout. Signs read "Welcome back, our hero" and "True to your word, you're back. Welcome." One man in the crowd, Godwin Nyarugwa, said he was "very ecstatic" a...

Impeachment to Begin as Mugabe Remains Defiant Defiant President Robert Mugabe could lose his 37-year grip on Zimbabwe within days, with a motion to impeach him on Tuesday's parliament agenda introduced by the ruling ZANU-PF party. The motion - which will be heard in a joint sitting of the lower and upper house - accuses Mugabe of being "the source of instability" within government and allowing his wife, First Lady Grace, to "usurp constitutional power". As laid out in Section 97 (3) of the Constitution, once the Senate and National Assembly have passed a resolution confirming the president should be removed from office, Mugabe could be stripped of his wide-ranging powers that many citizens say have caused untold suffering and hardship. Douglas Gumbo, 54, who participated in Saturday's mass march calling for Mugabe to resign, told Al Jazeera he was eager to watch the parliamentary session. House sittings are normally broadcast live on state ...

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...

From Dean : University of Zimbabwe  21 November 2017 Good morning ladies and gentlemen. This serves to inform you that there are discussion underway to keep University open and allow students to complete the current semester before end of December 2017. I will update youu soon as i have final position. Meanwhile, students in University accommodation are kindly encouraged not to check out. All inconveniences are sincerely regretted. Thank you. 

Zimbabwe’s ruling party expected to sack Robert Mugabe on Sunday President close to losing grip on power as tens of thousands join marches calling for his resignation  'We are going to take our Zimbabwe back': protesters call for Mugabe to go Robert Mugabe’s efforts to cling to power appeared close to collapse on Saturday night as tens of thousands marched through Zimbabwe’s cities calling for his resignation, while the ruling party prepared to dismiss him. The 93-year-old president is due on Sunday morning to meet the army commanders who took power last week, a statement broadcast by the state-run TV channel said. The face-to-face encounter is only the second since the military takeover five days ago and will take place as leaders of Zanu-PF convene to endorse a motion demanding that Mugabe resign as president and stripping the party leader of his post of first secretary. Parliament is expected to start impeachment proceedings next week. Protesters in Zimbabwe...

General Chiwenga The Zimbabwe Defence Forces say significant progress has been made in their operation to weed out criminals around President Mugabe adding that they had accounted for some of the criminals in order to bring them to justice though others were still at large. No names were given. The criminals, the ZDF said in a statement this morning, were committing crimes that were causing social and economic suffering in Zimbabwe. President, General Chiwenga meet They said they were currently engaging with the Commander-in-Chief President Robert Mugabe on the way forward and will advise the nation of the outcome as soon as possible. ”Defence attaches accredited to Zimbabwe have been briefed to appraise their principals on the obtaining situation in the country,” the ZDF said. Bureaucrats had also been advised to brief their co-operating partners.  The ZDF implored other security services to continue operating and carrying out their duties without any form of i...