Zimbabwe's ruling party to expel Mugabe, war vets head says

By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Joe Brock HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's ruling party will dismiss President Robert Mugabe as its leader on Sunday to force him to call an end to his 37 years in power peacefully following a de facto military coup, the head of the liberation war veterans said. Speaking to Reuters as he walked into an extraordinary meeting of ZANU-PF's central committee, Chris Mutsvangwa said Mugabe was running out of time to negotiate his departure and should leave the country while he could. "He's trying to bargain for a dignified exit." He followed up with threat to call for street protests if Mugabe refused to go, telling reporters: "We will bring back the crowds and they will do their business." Mutsvangwa, who has spearheaded a campaign over the last 18 months to remove the only leader Zimbabwe has known, said ZANU-PF would also dismiss Mugabe's wife Grace as head of its Women's League and reinstate ousted vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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