Zimbabwe Coup

Atoms for Peace

Looks like it's the end of Mugabe's rule of Zimbabwe, with the military having previously threatened to intervene and now reports of explosions and soldiers on the streets looks like they're doing just that.

jacksie66

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Canis Lupus

Interesting to see what happens next. Will African Union step in or leave it be.

Varik

Hopefully it puts the fear of God in South Africa and they change direction.

Zimbabwe was always the worst case scenario and best avoided but SA seemed to have forgotten that.

AllGunsBlazing

Id imagine what comes next will involve a ruthless culling of supporters of the losing side and the winners behaving roughly in the same manner as the shower they deposed. Sport and the weather up next.

suicide_circus

Don't worry, the military took over state tv there to reassure everyone this is not a coup.

nice_guy80

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch than comrade Mugabe and family

Had to happen eventually. Hopefully it's as un-bloody as possible, all that can be hoped for really.

Gatling

Hopefully that's the end of his reign ,he's single handedly destroyed the country and the economy

Akrasia

They're claiming a 'bloodless transition' and that Mugabe is detained but safe

Hopefully it's just a moderate takeover of the ruling party rather than a full scale opposition coup.

Former Vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa is said to have support in government and those supporters were about to be purged by Mugabe to clear the way for his wife to succeed him, so this coup is probably better than allowing the Mugabe family tighten their grip on the Zimbabwean government.

biko

Hopefully whatever is coming is better than how it was.

suicide_circus

At least it seems to be fully domestic in nature. Can't blame the yanks if this goes tits up!

Irish Praetorian

suicide_circus wrote: »

At least it seems to be fully domestic in nature. Can't blame the yanks if this goes tits up!

Ah when has that stopped anyone blaming the yanks? Still an interesting development no doubt, I suspect we will find out if "couldn't be any worse" can actually be worse before long.

Ubbquittious

Twould be great to see this Mugabe shagger finally getting his comeuppance

HalloweenJack

To play devil's advocate for a minute: I wonder will we see a Burma-type situation where people were championing the opposition for years, it finally gets in and the whole Rohingya thing popped off leading to criticism of the very same people that outsiders campaigned for?

FWIW, I'll be happy to see the end of Mugabe as he destroyed that country while him and his family seeming to be doing just fine. I wonder will Tsvangari (sp?) come back into the picture.

murpho999

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Twould be great to see this Mugabe shagger finally getting his comeuppance

Don't forget it's the military who have supported Mugabe all through his dreadful presidency so I would not trust their motives at all in this.

Country needs a people's revolution to change the whole regime.

Permabear

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sjb25

suicide_circus wrote: »

Don't worry, the military took over state tv there to reassure everyone this is not a coup.

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fixXxer

Speaking to family in Harare this morning, they say its business as usual about the place. Some military vehicles moving around the place but otherwise life going on as normal.

Hande hoche!

Pepsi presents New Rhodesia.

Ubbquittious

fixxxer wrote: »

Speaking to family in Harare this morning, they say its business as usual about the place. Some military vehicles moving around the place but otherwise life going on as normal.

It takes an awful lot to disrupt the daily hummadum-drum of modern life

fixXxer

Ubbquittious wrote: »

It takes an awful lot to disrupt the daily hummadum-drum of modern life

Kinda reassuring that. The in-laws are about 10 minutes by car away from Mugabe's house so really hoping things don't get crazy.

c_man

Akrasia wrote: »

They're claiming a 'bloodless transition'

All smotherings.

Hande hoche!

c_man wrote: »

All smotherings.

Just like Jimmy Carter.

Hande hoche!

Saying on Sky News that Grace Mugabe has left the country for Namibia.

Rumpy Pumpy

The problem with Zimbabwe is not too much socialism but not enough socialism.

Infini

Just another day in africa....

AllForIt

A coup in Africa means someone worse than the incumbent is taking over.

biko

Say what you will of Mugabe, but he's no Idi Amin Dada

Fred Swanson

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The_Valeyard

suicide_circus wrote: »

Don't worry, the military took over state tv there to reassure everyone this is not a coup.

First rule of Coup Club,

Tell everyone its not a coup.