{"id":179702,"date":"2017-11-21T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/21\/finally-8\/"},"modified":"2017-11-21T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T00:48:00","slug":"finally-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/21\/finally-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x1_69AAX-OY\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Meet the New Boss\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/i><\/div>\n<div>Robert Mugabe has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/21\/world\/africa\/zimbabwe-mugabe-mnangagwa.html\">resigned as Zimbabwe\u2019s President<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Robert Mugabe, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/15\/world\/africa\/robert-mugabe-zimbabwe.html\">ruled Zimbabwe since independence<\/a> in 1980 and once proclaimed that \u201conly God will remove me,\u201d resigned as president on Tuesday shortly after lawmakers began impeachment proceedings against him.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker of the Parliament, Jacob Mudenda, read out a letter in which Mr. Mugabe said he was stepping down \u201cwith immediate effect\u201d for \u201cthe welfare of the people of Zimbabwe and the need for a peaceful transfer of power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers erupted into cheers, and jubilant residents poured into the streets of Harare, the capital. It seemed to be an abrupt capitulation by Mr. Mugabe, 93, the world\u2019s oldest head of state and one of Africa\u2019s longest-serving leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the best thing that\u2019s ever happened to Zimbabwe,\u201d Perseverance Sande, 20, said in central Harare minutes after news of the resignation began spreading, as crowds of people started singing around her. \u201cI\u2019ve been waiting so long for this moment.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is widely expected that Emmerson Mnangagwa, his former VP, whose firing precipitated the coup, will succeed him, so I&#8217;m not expecting much in the way of political change.<\/p>\n<p>Mnangagwa was, after all, hip deep in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gukurahundi#Death_estimates\">Gukurahundi<\/a> massacres in Matabeleland in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the New Boss\u2026\u2026\u2026 Robert Mugabe has resigned as Zimbabwe\u2019s President: Robert Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980 and once proclaimed that \u201conly God will remove me,\u201d resigned as president on Tuesday shortly after lawmakers began impeachment proceedings against him. The speaker of the Parliament, Jacob Mudenda, read out a letter in which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[459,482,413,439,374],"class_list":["post-179702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-africa","tag-breaking-news","tag-civil-rights","tag-government","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}