{"id":103539,"date":"2025-01-27T12:27:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/war-veterans-demand-mnangagwas-resignation"},"modified":"2025-02-09T17:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T15:25:55","slug":"war-veterans-demand-mnangagwas-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/war-veterans-demand-mnangagwas-resignation","title":{"rendered":"War Veterans Demand Mnangagwa&#8217;s Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>A group of war veterans has demanded President Emmerson Mnangagwa step down, describing him as \u201cnot fit to run this country,\u201d reported ZimLive.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference in Harare on Sunday, 26 January, war veteran and ZANU PF central committee member Blessed Runesu Geza criticized Mnangagwa\u2019s administration, suggesting that they might be acting on behalf of a military faction within the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>Geza, accompanied by five other men he introduced as commanders from ZPRA and ZANLA \u201cwho fought in the trenches to liberate this country\u201d, declared that Mnangagwa had failed and should leave office peacefully. He said:<\/p>\n<p>It is clear to us that Mnangagwa has failed, he is not fit to run this country and his time to go is now!<\/p>\n<p>We ask him to go peacefully. If he refuses to take heed of this advice, we have no option but to ask the no people of Zimbabwe to deal with a rogue president in line with the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>War veteran Knox Chivero, speaking after Geza, declared that it is Mnangagwa\u2019s time to leave \u201cpeacefully or otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The war veterans vowed to oppose any changes to the Constitution and dismissed Mnangagwa\u2019s claims that he had no ambition to stay in power beyond 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Geza warned that such plans would \u201cthrow the country into disquiet.\u201d He added:<\/p>\n<p>How do you claim not to be involved when your ministers appointed under your hand issue statements in support of this illegal and treacherous 2030 agenda?<\/p>\n<p>Emmerson Mnangagwa on assumption of power showed that he was a man who had learned nothing&#8230; instead of correcting the mistakes of Robert Mugabe, he went about proving to all of us that Mugabe was actually a saint.<\/p>\n<p>According to Geza, Mnangagwa has \u201csystematically targeted and purged war veterans in various arms of government and replaced them with crooks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geza fumed that the president\u2019s cabinet is filled with ministers \u201cwho either belong to his clan or are benefactors to his family through his children.\u201d He added:<\/p>\n<p>Since assuming power, Mnangagwa has neglected civil servants who are now earning slave wages. Our men and women in uniform have lost their dignity even in the eyes of the public due to state-sponsored poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Geza claimed that the rising frequency of deaths of ex-generals was suspicious, adding that they believe the deaths are \u201clinked to Mnangagwa\u2019s blue-eyed boy Owen Mudha Ncube.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Owen Ncube is the Gokwe-Kana MP, the Midlands Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister, and also the former Minister of State for National Security.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Zimbabwe<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. A group of war veterans has demanded President Emmerson Mnangagwa step down, describing him as \u201cnot fit to run this country,\u201d reported ZimLive. At a news conference in Harare on Sunday, 26 January, war veteran and ZANU PF central committee member Blessed Runesu Geza criticized Mnangagwa\u2019s administration, suggesting that they might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":103538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[11638,17010,17009,317,19],"class_list":["post-103539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-third-term","tag-two-term-limit","tag-two-terms","tag-war-veterans","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>War Veterans Demand Mnangagwa&#039;s Resignation - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A group of war veterans has demanded President Emmerson Mnangagwa step down, describing him as \u201cnot fit to run this coun ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/war-veterans-demand-mnangagwas-resignation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"War Veterans Demand Mnangagwa&#039;s Resignation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A group of war veterans has demanded President Emmerson Mnangagwa step down, describing him as \u201cnot fit to run this coun ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/war-veterans-demand-mnangagwas-resignation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-27T10:27:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-09T15:25:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/sm_1737968567.06977.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"938\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/war-veterans-demand-mnangagwas-resignation#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/war-veterans-demand-mnangagwas-resignation\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"War Veterans Demand Mnangagwa&#8217;s Resignation\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-27T10:27:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-09T15:25:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/war-veterans-demand-mnangagwas-resignation\"},\"wordCount\":434,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/war-veterans-demand-mnangagwas-resignation#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2025\/01\/sm_1737968567.06977.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Third Term\",\"Two Term Limit\",\"Two Terms\",\"War veterans\",\"Zimbabwe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/war-veterans-demand-mnangagwas-resignation#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/war-veterans-demand-mnangagwas-resignation\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/war-veterans-demand-mnangagwas-resignation\",\"name\":\"War Veterans Demand Mnangagwa's Resignation - 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