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November 16, 2017

Message to SADC and AU, please stay away from Zimbabwe, we got this

Tinomudaishe Chinyoka – Comrades, unless we are vigilant, we have the danger that the AU and SADC might in fact abort our deliverance. They are already circling. There is a so-called SADC emergency meeting called for Botswana on 16 November 2017. So I have to ask, what has SADC ever done for us? And where was the AU when we toiled and suffered?

‘Cabinet ministers, Zanu PF officials detained’

A number of Cabinet ministers and senior officials in government and the ruling Zanu PF party considered to be part of President Robert Mugabe’s inner circle have either been put under house arrest or detained by the army, which has taken charge of the country’s affairs.

Imperatives of the ‘cool coup’ and a transition in Zimbabwe

Dr Tapiwa Shumba – For this to remain a ‘cool coup’, it must have a clear plan and a swift strategy for a return to normalcy. A clear strategy includes making it a point that the army returns to the barracks in a few days time and handover the country back to civilian authority.

The longer they take without an exit strategy, the closer this will move towards a ‘treasonous coup’ which will be frowned upon by Zimbabweans, SADC, AU and the international community who have been supportive thus far.