Posted on 11/14/2017 11:25:28 PM PST by aquila48
GOOD MORNING/AFTERNOON
Fellow Zimbabweans, following the address we made on 13 November 2017 which we believe our main broadcaster, ZBC and The Herald were directed not to publicise, the situation in our country has moved to another level.
Firstly, we wish to assure the nation that His Excellency, The President, of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Head of State and Government and Commander in Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, Cde R.G Mugabe and his fa,ily are safe and sound and their security is guaranteed. We are only targeting criminals around him who are committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice.
As soon as we have accomplished our mission we expect that the situation will return to normalcy.
To the civil servants: As you are aware, there is a plan by the same individuals to influence the current purging taking place in Zanu PF to the Civil service. We are against that act of injustice and we intend to protect everyone of you against it.
To the judiciary, the measures underway are intended to ensure that, as an independent arm of the state, you are able to exercise your independent authority without fear of being obstructed as has been the case with this group of individuals.
To our Members of Parliament: Your legislative role is of paramount importance for peace and stability in this country and it is our desire that a dispensation is created that allows you to serve your respective political constituencies according to democratic tenets.
To the generality of the people of Zimbabwe: We urge you to remain calm and limit unnecessary movement. However, we encourage those who are employed and those with essential business in the city to continue their normal activities as usual. Our wish is that you enjoy your rights and freedoms and that we return our country to a dispensation that allows for investment, development and prosperity that we all fought for and for which many of our citizens paid the supreme sacrifice.
To political Parties; We urge you to discourage your members from engaging in violent behaviour.
To the youth: We call upon you to realise that the future of this country is yours. Do not be enticed with dirty coins of silver, be disciplined and remain committed to the ethos and values of this great nation.
To all Churches and religious organisations in Zimbabwe: We call upon you and your congregations to pray for our country and preach the gospel of love, peace, unity and development.
To both our people and the world beyond our borders: We wish to make it abundantly clear that this is not a military takeover of Government. What the Zimbabwe Defence Forces is doing is to pacify a degenerating political, social and economic situation in our country which if not addressed may result in violent conflict.
We call upon all the war veterans to play a positive role in ensuring peace, stability and unity in the country.
To members of the Defence Forces: All leave is cancelled and you are all to return to your barracks with immediate effect.
To our respected Traditional leaders: You are the custodians of our culture, customs, traditions and heritage and we request you to provide leadership and direction to your communities for the sake of unity and development in our country.
To the other Security Services: We urge you to cooperate for the good of our country. Let it be clear that we intend to address the human security threats in our country. Therefore any provocation will be met with an appropriate response.
To the media; we urge you report fairly and responsibly.
THANK YOU.
It’s hard to get a handle on what is really going on. The army says Mugabe and his family are under house arrest and “safe”. But a lot of stories conflict this morning.
About Grace, yeah, she had to go.
I guess even with that statement it still could be...
Guess I should have paid more attention. I'm surprised Drudge didn't highlight it. Too busy with the Moore take-down, I guess.
Admit it, he'd have a much more wholesome public image if he went by "Bob Mugabe"..
Kim Jong the fat, short NK bum too. The NKs might finally get tired of their oppression and starvation too.
Only the resurrection of Rhodesia can save what is now known as “Zimbabwe”!!!!
You could also take a look on YouTube for “ann7 news live”.
“My name is Idi Amin Dada...That’s two A’s two D’s and one gun!”
Thank you, Lord, for letting me be born in America.
Whenever there was a rebellion in medieval England, the rebels would normally claim that they were acting against the “evil counsellors” surrounding the King, not against the King himself.
I suspect this is something like that.
I saw the news on pingo5.com i even watched the video there on www.pingo5.com
Very well written coup statement. Educated military. I’m sure Christine amapohr is crying tonight. She loved loved Mugabe . I think she sends him birthday wishes every year on cnn. Loves dictators. Think I remember her admitting to sleeping with kadafe.
“Think I remember her admitting to sleeping with kadafe.”
That’s truly debasing yourself.
Couldn’t get much worse, if at all.
His crimes?
Genocide. That is a good place to start.
Africa is Africa, so will the new guys be “better?” Maybe, maybe not, but Mugabe is truly a criminal by any measure.
Put the Brits back in charge.
But in this case, Mugabe and his henchmen ARE evil.
Been there back in the later 90’s and it was truly bad at that time, and that was before wholesale raping and murder of Whites started taking place, and before seizing all White-owned farms and ranches. The nation is starving today and I think Mugabe has run his course. Replacements being any better? Who knows, but based on what I know from visiting and watching what has been happening over the decades, that country can afford to take a chance on a different ruling class.
I think we used to have a White women on FR that would post from her home in Zimbabwe and the conditions she described were horrendous.
Knowing a few US military that worked in the regions Office of Defense Cooperation (not embassy), the stories they tell would give even Vlad the Impaler nightmares.
Of course he is, as were John, Richard II, Charles I, etc. The Zimbabwean Army is avoids condemning him for the same reason the Barons, Henry Bolingbroke, and the Roundheads avoided (at least initially) condemning the King—to mitigate accusations of treason and to avoid a popular backlash due to the ruler’s popularity, both personally and as a symbol of the state.
Mugabe is not going to be around much longer, regardless. I think the Army’s main goal is to ensure he is not succeeded by his wife.
Fully agree with you.
“I think we used to have a White women on FR that would post from her home in Zimbabwe and the conditions she described were horrendous.”
Cathy Buckle IIRC.
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