After spending 37 years as President of Zimbabawe, 93 year old Robert Mugabe has resigned from office. He resigned few minutes ago.
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Speaker of Zimbabwe’s National Assembly Jacob Mudenda read his resignation letter to legislators.
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“I Robert Gabriel Mugabe in terms of section 96 of the constitution of Zimbabwe hereby formally tender my resignation… with immediate effect,” said speaker Jacob Mudenda, reading the resignation letter.
LIST OF APPLICATIONS FOR REGULARISATION OF AREA COUNCIL LAND DOCUMENTS NULLIFIED/CANCELLED BY THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF FCT
Zimbabweans trouped to the streets to celebrate Mugabe’s resignation immediate news filtered in the he had actually resigned.
Mr Mugabe’s grip on power has weakened considerably since the country’s army intervened last Wednesday in a row over who should succeed him.
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Today, lawmakers had convened to debate a motion to impeach Mugabe, who has dominated every aspect of Zimbabwean public life since independence in 1980.
It was greeted on the streets of the capital Harare with car horns and wild cheering.
It capped an unprecedented week in which the military seized control, tens of thousands of Zimbabwean citizens took to the streets to demand the president go and 93-year-old Mugabe wrestled to remain in power.
Mugabe had ruled Zimbabwe almost unopposed since the country won independence from Britain.
But his efforts to position his wife Grace as his successor triggered fury in the military that had underpinned his regime.
