How Zanu-PF plans to impeach Mugabe

The protracted battle to force Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe out of office will enter parliament on Tuesday with a motion to impeach him likely to be tabled by Zanu-PF. Parliament reconvenes on Tuesday after a two-week break and the governing party said it had already put in place a motion that would result in Mugabe’s impeachment. Zanu-PF said on Monday that Mugabe had been formally notified of the plan to impeach him. It said the party’s chief whip had been instructed to proceed with the process and a motion was expected to be submitted on Tuesday. Zanu-PF removed Mugabe as leader on Sunday after 40 years at the helm since 1977. The party also fired his wife Grace and a number of his allies from party positions, capping a dramatic week after the military seized power. "We will move a motion tomorrow, set up the committee tomorrow and on Wednesday it reports back and we vote him out," Zanu-PF deputy secretary for legal affairs Paul Mangwana said. A defiant Mugabe has so far re...

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