Reports indicate that soldiers have taken over Zimbabwe's ZBC
state broadcaster, compounding speculation of a coup against President
Robert Mugabe, 93. Follow Live updates.
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Comrade
Maj. Gen Sibisiso's press statement is very confusing for the grave
dancers who hoped that Mugabe would be dragged through the streets #Zimbabwe
in
Hre CBD soldiers can be seen peacefully patrolling the streets, no
violence. .Zimbos jus waiting for the news that Mugabe is leaving the
country for good
On the ground I am now in town. State owned radio stations
now only playing war time songs (songs that we used to play during the
liberation struggle as well as the statement by the military.
In the CBD army tanks are blocking all roads that lead to
the official president's office, the Munhumutapa Building. They are also
blocking roads leading to the Parliament Building, the High Court and the
Defence Forces House.
I am also told that there is heavy army presence to the road
that leads to the President's rural Home in Zvimba, to the west of Harare in
the Mashonaland West Province.
Some parents have also prevented their children from going
to school especially schools in Northern Suburbs and those close to the CBD.
But at the moment it's all still calm with people going
about their business although the volume of traffic is minimal. - Zimbabwe journalist
Crecey Kuyedzwa in Harare
Local flight operators say it is business as usual for now,
as speculation of coup in Zimbabwe continues.
Videos posted to twitter show that entry to Robert Gabriel
Mugabe (RGB) International Airport is currently being monitored by Zimbabwean
military.
There have been conflicting reports regarding flight
operations from Harare since the Zimbabwean military started sending tanks into
the capital on Tuesday and have since taken over the public broadcaster, ZBC.
Elections probably won't be held as scheduled, Rashweat
Mukundu, an analyst with the Harare-based Zimbabwe Democracy Institute, said by
phone.
"The military is going to determine the shape of
Zimbabwean politics, although they've tried to say this is not a coup," he
said.
"This may result in the creation of a new unity
government which will involve the opposition."
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The
country is now under military rule, said Alex Magaisa, a Zimbabwean law
lecturer who is based in the UK and helped design Zimbabwe’s 2013
constitution. “When you see a man in uniform reading news on national
television, you know it’s done,” he said in a text message. “There are no
more questions. Authority is now in the hands of the military.”
08:25
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Mugabe is here to stay. Let the messengers of wishful thinking continue with their wishes. #Zimbabwe
1.
The constitution can still be salvaged. 2.PrezMugabe must resign. 3.
An acting president must be appointed from Zanupf in terms of
constitution 6th schedule . 4. Civilian gvt must be restored. #Zimbabwe (my own thoughts)
Adriaan Basson:
Verified reports confirm that Mugabe has negotiated for Grace to leave the country while he prepares to step down.
Press
conference tomorrow afternoon. Soldiers indeed have the president and
his presidential guard under siege. Zimbabweans are urged to stay away
from the CBD tomorrow until further notice
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#Zimbabwe 2 Flights departed from Harare Intl this AM, it seems as if the airport is still operating
7:00 AMUM467 Johannesburg (JNB) Air ZimbabweB762 (Z-WPE) Departed 7:36 AM
7:20 AMSA25 Johannesburg (JNB) South African AirwaysA320 (ZS-SZI) Departed 7:25 AM
Aggressive Zimbabwean soldiers told passing cars to keep
moving through the darkness. "Don't try anything funny. Just go," one
barked at Reuters on Harare Drive - Reuters
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No need for SADC or SA to get involved in Zimbabwe, says former
ZANU-PF official Temba Mliswa
07:59
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We are safer under the army, says former ZANU-PF official Temba
Mliswa
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Zimbabwe's military seizes power, threatening Mugabe's rule
The armed forces seized power in Zimbabwe after a week of confrontation
with President Robert Mugabe’s government and said the action was needed
to stave off violent conflict in the southern African nation that he’s
ruled since 1980.
President was part of this faction, but now it has backfired
on him - former ZANU-PF official
Temba Mliswa
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First lady has usurped the powers of the Zimbabwe president
- former ZANU-PF official Temba Mliswa
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ZANU-PF has described as "treasonous" statements
by Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Constantino Chiwenga that the
military will not hesitate to take corrective measures when they felt the gains
of the liberation struggle were under threat - Zimbabwe Herald
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ZANU-PF and ANC have long relationships, says UNISA lecturer
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UNISA lecturer says Zimbabweans should
remain peaceful and calm
07:38
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The Zimbabwe army's takeover of the state broadcaster and
action against some members of President Robert Mugabe's government has been
praised by the chair of the Liberation War Veterans' Association.
Chris Mutsvangwa, head of the war veterans' group issued a
statement from Johannesburg praising Army General Constantino Chiwenga for
carrying out "a bloodless correction of gross abuse of power". The
statement said the army will return Zimbabwe to "genuine democracy".
Mutsvangwa and the war veterans' group are staunch allies of
Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was fired from his post of vice president by Mugabe
last week - AP
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Zimbabwe finance minister Ignatius Chombo was a leading
member of the so-called "G40" faction of the ruling ZANU-PF party,
led by Mugabe's wife Grace, that had been vying to succeed the 93-year-old
president - Reuters
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Zimbabwe war veterans leader praises army action as "bloodless
correction", says military will restore democracy - AP
07:34
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#Zimbabwe
The International Relations Department has appealed to South Africans
to keep in contact with the country’s embassy in Zimbabwe. @FaizelPatel143
Takeover of the state broadcaster is "Coup 101" -
The National
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Soldiers overran the headquarters of the ZBC, Zimbabwe’s
state broadcaster and a principal Mugabe mouthpiece, and ordered staff to
leave. Several ZBC workers were manhandled, two members of staff and a human
rights activist said - Reuters
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Zimbabwean soldiers and armoured vehicles blocked roads to
the main government offices, parliament and the courts in central Harare, a Reuters
witness said on Wednesday - Reuters
In Africa, Libya, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Gambia and Lesotho
have all faced recent coups or coup attempts
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#Zimbabwe ; military insisting it is not a coup. Negotiations ongoing with the #Mugabe family to avoid peaceful transition. Embassies asked citizens to stay at home today.
I am receiving unconfirmed reports of arrests of cabinet ministers and prominent people in Zimbabwe. I will share when names are confirmed. Remember the army said they are “targeting thieves around” President Mugabe #Zimbabwe
#Zimbabwe Military take over video published on#ZBC TV at 4am local time pic.
Breaking News: Zimbabwe's military said it had taken custody of President Robert Mugabe in what appeared to be a coup
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe’s military said early Wednesday that it had taken custody of President Robert Mugabe, the world’s oldest head of state and one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, in what increasingly appeared to be a military takeover in the southern African nation.
After apparently seizing the state broadcaster, ZBC, two uniformed officers said in a short predawn announcement that “the situation in our country has moved to another level.” While denying that the military had seized power, they said that Mr. Mugabe and his family “are safe and sound, and their security is guaranteed.”
“We are only targeting criminals around him who are committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice,” said the main speaker, who was identified as Maj. Gen. S. B. Moyo, the army’s chief of staff.
General Moyo — who was not widely known to the public but who was considered close to the commander of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces, Gen. Constantine Chiwenga — warned that “any provocation will be met with an appropriate response.”
Around 6 a.m. on Wednesday, taxis were running on the main roads leading to central Harare and people seemed to be making their way to work. Some soldiers could be seen on the main roads but were not stopping commuters.
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After the short announcement, commercials on farming and corn seeds appeared on the state broadcaster. There was no further clarification of the whereabouts or status of Mr. Mugabe, 93, who is the only leader his nation has known since independence in 1980.
Asked in a brief telephone interview about reports of a possible coup, the country’s information minister, Simon Khaya Moyo, said, “What can I say? I don’t know about that.” He did not elaborate.
The television announcement came after a long night of rumors and sketchy reports in Harare that a coup might be underway. The day before, in a remarkable act of defiance, General Chiwenga, had warned that “when it comes to matters of protecting our revolution, the military will not hesitate to step in.”
General Chiwenga was considered close to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, whom Mr. Mugabe summarily expelled from the government and the governing ZANU-PF party last week. The move was widely seen as clearing the path for Mr. Mugabe’s wife, Grace, 52, who had been amassing growing political power in the past two years as her aging husband’s health declined visibly.
Since his removal, the whereabouts of Mr. Mnangagwa, who like Mr. Mugabe was a veteran of the country’s struggle for independence, has been shrouded in mystery.
History
A water clock. A small human figurine holds a pointer to a cylinder marked by the hours. The cylinder is connected by gears to a water wheel driven by water that also floats, a part that supports the figurine.
Ancient water clock that lets hour lengths vary with season
Although they did not fix their schedules to the clock in the modern sense, ancient civilizations adjusted daily schedules to the sun more flexibly than DST does, often dividing daylight into twelve hours regardless of daytime, so that each daylight hour was longer during summer.[20] For example, the Romans kept time with water clocks that had different scales for different months of the year: at Rome's latitude the third hour from sunrise, hora tertia, started by modern standards at 09:02 solar time and lasted 44 minutes at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it started at 06:58 and lasted 75 minutes.[21] After ancient times, equal-length civil hours eventually supplanted unequal, so civil time no longer varies by season. Unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as some monasteries of Mount Athos[22] and all Jewish ceremonies.[23]
During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, publisher of the old English proverb "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise",[24][25] anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight.[26] This 1784 satire proposed taxing window shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise.[27] Despite common misconception, Franklin did not actually propose DST; 18th-century Europe did not even keep precise schedules. However, this soon changed as rail transport and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day.[28]
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George Hudson invented modern DST, proposing it first in 1895
Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Hudson, whose shift work job gave him leisure time to collect insects and led him to value after-hours daylight.[3] In 1895 he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society proposing a two-hour daylight-saving shift,[11] and after considerable interest was expressed in Christchurch, he followed up in an 1898 paper.[29] Many publications credit DST proposal to the prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett,[30] who independently conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day.[16] An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk.[31] His solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later.[32] The proposal was taken up by the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Robert Pearce, who introduced the first Daylight Saving Bill to the House of Commons on February 12, 1908.[33] A select committee was set up to examine the issue, but Pearce's bill did not become law, and several other bills failed in the following years. Willett lobbied for the proposal in the UK until his death in 1915.
William Sword Frost, mayor of Orillia, Ontario, introduced daylight saving time in the municipality during his tenure from 1911 to 1912.[34]
Starting on April 30, 1916, the German Empire and its World War I ally Austria-Hungary were the first to use DST (German: Sommerzeit) as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year, and the United States adopted it in 1918.
Broadly speaking, daylight saving time was abandoned in the years after the war (with some notable exceptions including Canada, the UK, France, and Ireland). However, it was brought back for periods of time in many different places during the following decades and commonly during World War II. It became widely adopted, particularly in North America and Europe, starting in the 1970s as a result of the 1970s energy crisis.
Since then, the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals.[35] For specific details, an overview is available at Daylight saving time by country.
Daylight saving time
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the concept of daylight saving time. For local implementations, see Daylight saving time by country.
"Daylight Saving" redirects here. For the play by Nick Enright, see Daylight Saving (play).
"Summer time" and "DST" redirect here. For other uses, see Summer time (disambiguation) and DST (disambiguation).
World map. Europe, most of North America, parts of southern South America and southeastern Australia, and a few other places use DST. Most of equatorial Africa and a few other places near the equator have never used DST. The rest of the landmass is marked as formerly using DST.
Daylight saving time regions:
Northern hemisphere summer
Southern hemisphere summer
Formerly used daylight saving or permanently daylight saving
Never used daylight saving
Daylight saving time (abbreviated DST), commonly referred to as daylight savings time in speech,[1] and known as summer time in some countries, is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months so that evening daylight lasts longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, regions that use daylight saving time adjust clocks forward one hour close to the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn to standard time.[2]
George Hudson proposed the idea of daylight saving in 1895.[3] The German Empire and Austria-Hungary organized the first nationwide implementation, starting on April 30, 1916. Many countries have used it at various times since then, particularly since the energy crisis of the 1970s.
The practice has both advocates and critics.[2] Some early proponents of DST aimed to reduce evening use of incandescent lighting, once a primary use of electricity.[4] Today's heating and cooling usage patterns differ greatly, and research about how DST affects energy use is limited and contradictory.[5]
DST clock shifts sometimes complicate timekeeping and can disrupt travel, billing, record keeping, medical devices, heavy equipment,[6] and sleep patterns.[7] Computer software often adjusts clocks automatically, but policy changes by various jurisdictions of DST dates and timings may be confusing.[8]
The 24-year-old New Zealander apparently didn’t want to ask for the game to be stopped so he could go to the restroom, so instead he urinated next to the goal. Unfortunately for him, he was caught in the act by match officials and sent off the field by a referee.
The incident, which happened in the 87th minute of the match, was later confirmed by Bradford Park Avenue in a tweet: “We can confirm that Crocombe has been sent off for urinating during the game. We are not joking.”
87' - We can confirm that Crocombe has been sent off for urinating during the game. We are not joking. #greenarmy (1-2)
— Bradford Park Avenue (@BPAFCOfficial) October 28, 2017
“He was told by the steward twice not to do it and he went ahead and had a pee,” club secretary Colin Barker said after the match.
The Salford City player later took to his twitter page to apologize. “I was in a very uncomfortable position and made an error in judgement which spoiled a great win,” he tweeted. “My intention was never to offend anyone and I’d like to apologize to both clubs and both sets of supporters and it won’t happen again.”
pic.twitter.com/S6d0IxO8Az
— Max Crocombe (@Meeiix) October 28, 2017
Barker said that one spectator filed a formal complaint. The incident was also reported to the police. According to AFP, the match was attended by 533 spectators. Despite the incident, Salford City held on to win 2-1. Crocombe joined Salford City in May. Both clubs play in the National League North, the sixth tier of English football.
The incident is reminiscent of what happened to former Germany and Arsenal star Jens Lehmann in 2009. While playing a Champions League game at VfB Stuttgart, he ran behind a billboard to relieve himself.
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