Madhuku said the minister would appear in court, likely on charges of abuse of office, but that he was at Harare’s main hospital as he was not well, though he did not specify further.
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Taking his oath of office, the 75-year-old former security chief, known as The Crocodile, vowed to uphold the constitution of the former British colony and protect the rights of Zimbabwe’s 16 million citizens.
According to the source, Mugabe was assured that his safety would be protected in his home country as part of a deal that led to his resignation.
Earlier in the week, the Central Committee of his party ZANU-PF had voted to dismiss him as party leader.
NAN reports that on Tuesday May said Mugabe’s resignation gave Zimbabwe “an opportunity to forge a new path free of the oppression that characterised his rule,” and declared Britain stood ready to help.
Spokesperson, Simon Moyo, told The Herald newspaper that people must “acknowledge that he did so much for the liberation of Zimbabwe and indeed as Prime Minister and President post independence”.
“Tonight marks an historic moment for Zimbabwe. We congratulate all Zimbabweans, who raised their voices and stated peacefully and clearly that the time for change was overdue,” a statement from the US embassy in Harare said on Tuesday.
Speaking to Reuters from a secret location in South Africa, Zhuwao said Mugabe had hardly slept since the military seized power on Wednesday, but his health was otherwise “good”.
On the streets of the capital, Zimbabweans let their emotions run free as they spoke of political and economic change after two decades of repression and deepening hardship.
China is paying close attention to the situation in Zimbabwe and hoped for stability and a peaceful, “appropriate” resolution, Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Geng Shuang, told a daily news conference in Beijing.
“At the moment the transitional government is the best way to go,” said Douglas Mwonzora, Secretary-General of Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC-T party.
Mugabe is insisting he remains Zimbabwe’s only legitimate ruler and has balked at mediation by a Catholic priest to allow the 93-year-old former guerrilla a graceful exit after a military coup, sources said on Thursday.
“Nobody wants simply to see the transition from one unelected tyrant to a next. None wants to see that. We want to see proper, free and fair elections,” Johnson told the British parliament.
Charamba added: “The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe was the guest of honour at the rally and what they did was tantamount to undermining the authority of the president.”
Workmen were on Wednesday busy resetting the letters on the airport’s conical tower and information boards to read the new name ahead of Thursday’s renaming ceremony.
Mugabe sacked his long-time ally, Mnangagwa, on Monday, for showing “traits of disloyalty”, abruptly removing a favorite to succeed the 93-year-old leader and boosting the likelihood of Grace Mugabe becoming his next deputy and potential successor.
The Zimbabwean leader said on Wednesday in Harare that “in spite of having a system of capital punishment, with more than 90 inmates currently on death row, no executions have been carried out since 2005.
In an interview with Chinese media, Mugabe told Xinhua he is glad to see that China has prioritised relations with African countries for decades and shared its development achievements with them.
This is not the first time that the country has barred Western organisations from observing elections, accusing them of harboring sinister intentions to promote regime change.
Osinbajo made this call while interacting with a committee of African Ambassadors to Indonesia, led by the dean of the group, Alice Mageza of Zimbabwe, on the sideline of his two-day working visit to Jakarta.