{"id":32325,"date":"2017-11-21T22:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32325"},"modified":"2017-11-22T00:16:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T19:16:28","slug":"robert-mugabe-resigned-as-president-of-zimbabwe-bringing-the-curtain-down-on-a-37-year-reign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=32325","title":{"rendered":"Robert Mugabe resignes as president of Zimbabwe, bringing the curtain down on a 37-year reign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HARARE, Nov 21 (TNS):<\/strong> Mugabe was swept from power on Tuesday as his autocratic rule crumbled within days of a military takeover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I Robert Gabriel Mugabe in terms of section 96 of the constitution of Zimbabwe hereby formally tender my resignation&#8230; with immediate effect,&#8221; said speaker Mudenda, reading the letter.<\/p>\n<p>The bombshell news was delivered to a special joint session of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers had convened to debate a motion to impeach Mugabe, who has dominated every aspect of Zimbabwean public life since independence in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>It was greeted on the streets of the capital Harare with car horns and wild cheering.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe had ruled Zimbabwe almost unopposed since the country won independence from Britain.<\/p>\n<p>But his efforts to position his wife Grace as his successor triggered fury in the military that had underpinned his regime.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE, Nov 21 (TNS): Mugabe was swept from power on Tuesday as his autocratic rule crumbled within days of a military takeover. &#8220;I Robert Gabriel Mugabe in terms of section 96 of the constitution of Zimbabwe hereby formally tender my resignation&#8230; with immediate effect,&#8221; said speaker Mudenda, reading the letter. The bombshell news was delivered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1342,932],"class_list":["post-32325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-harare","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32355,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32325\/revisions\/32355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}