HARARE–President Robert Mugabe stunned Zimbabwe on Sunday, Nov. 19, by making no mention of resignation in a television address, defying his own ZANU-PF party, which had sacked him hours earlier, and hundreds of thousands of protesters who had already hailed his downfall.
Two sources - one a senior member of the government, the other familiar with talks with leaders of the military - had told Reuters that Mugabe would announce his resignation to the nation after ZANU-PF dismissed him as its leader in a move precipitated by an army takeover four days earlier.
