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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Mugabe 'preparing to step down' - senior source

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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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
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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.
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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.”
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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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Traffic into the Harare city centre is "picking up", schools operating, city flowing normally, says Zimbabwean journalist
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No confirmation from Robert Mugabe that he is under house arrest
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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In Africa, Libya, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Gambia and Lesotho have all faced recent coups or coup attempts
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Army General SB Moyo says all leave for troops is cancelled, orders troops to barracks
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Only military messages are being aired on the state broadcaster
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"We wish to make it abundantly clear that this is not a military takeover of government," says Zimbabwe army General SB Moyo
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"Our wish is that you enjoy your rights and freedoms," says army General SB Moyo to Zimbabwe public
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Army General SB Moyo says that judiciary is free to be independent and MPs are free to "serve your constituents"
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Army General SB Moyo guarantees safety of Robert Mugabe, saying that the army is "gathering criminals around him"
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This official statement by Zimbabwean Army is being played on radio stations across Zimbabwe


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Breaking News: Is this the end of Mugabe's era?






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#Zimbabwe LIVE: Mugabe 'preparing to step down', negotiates for Grace to leave the country – senior source ow.ly/kwiZ30gAsoU pic.twitter.com/XvuEnI3…
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Breaking News: Zimbabwe's military said it had taken custody of President Robert Mugabe in what appeared to be a coup nyti.ms/2jtTzJ7
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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
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#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.
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Saturday, November 4, 2017

Sunday November 5, 2017 is Daylight Savings. Sleep one extra hr






Sunday November 5, 2017 is daylight savings ነገ  አንድ ተጨማሪ  ሰዓት ለሽ  በሉ።
 በአሜሪካ  የምትኖሩ  አንባቢወች እንደምትኖሩበት ግዛት  ነገ  ሰአቱ ወደ ኋላ  በአንድ  ሰአት ይቀየራል። ማሳሰቢያ  ይህ  የሰአት መቀየር  ሁሉንም  የአሜሪካ  ከተሞች  ሊያጠቃልል  ስለሚችል  እባክዎ  እንደ  እከ  ለሽ  ከማለትዎ በፊት  የከተማዋን  ህግ  ያረጋግጡ：： 




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]
Fuzzy head-and-shoulders photo of a 40-year-old man in a cloth cap and mustache.
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]
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