'Mnangagwa, Chiwenga military coup doomed'

Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo says the 15 November 2017 coup of General Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga and  President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is doomed.

Moyo wrote on twitter, "In Zimbabwe November is sacred. Anything with spirituality done in the month is doomed. It's the #NovemberCurse. You ignore it only at your peril. A marriage in November fails; or worse happens. Smith's 11 November UDI failed. So, the 15 November coup of Chiwenga & Ed is doomed!"

In Zimbabwe November is sacred. Anything with spirituality done in the month is doomed. It's the #NovemberCurse. You ignore it only at your peril. A marriage in November fails; or worse happens. Smith's 11 November UDI failed. So, the 15 November coup of Chiwenga & Ed is doomed! pic.twitter.com/DfLCKiRuVx

— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) January 10, 2018

On the evening of 14 November 2017, elements of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) gathered around Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, and seized control of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and key areas of the city. The next day, the ZDF issued a statement saying that it was not a coup d'état and that President Robert Mugabe was safe, although the situation would return to normal only after the ZDF had dealt with the "criminals" around Mugabe responsible for the socio-economic problems of Zimbabwe.