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　　In a televised speech today, Mugabe acknowledged the criticism of his 37 years in power, but he stopped short of stepping down.

　　Many expected he would. Journalists Tatira Zwinoira is just outside Zimbabwe's capital of Harare, joinning to me now via Skype with more.

　　Tatira, you're watching. I'm sure the televised newscast expecting a significant transition of power, but he didn't step down.

　　Yes. He shocked everybody in the nation, was largely expected since he was ousted³ as the ZANU-PF president and first secretary just this afternoon and given a 24 hour ultimatum⁴ that he resigns as president.

　　They thought that for all intents and purposes, he might want to take the less disgraceful way out of, you know power and use this state address to resign which he didn't.

　　In fact, he went a step further in his speech to say that he's gonna be presiding over the ZANU-PF Congress which is gonna be done next month.

　　But which, it left many baffled because he was just expelled as the president! So how? In what capacity is it gonna be presiding over the ZANU-PF Congress?

　　Given the marches that we saw on the streets yesterday, what kind of support does Robert Mugabe have left?

　　Well, I was talking to some sources of mine after this whole speech. It's very clear that there are some people who are helping⁶ him.

　　This is unconfirmed, but from what I'm getting from my sources is that he actually read the wrong speech!

　　So there was a part where he was supposed to resign today and the reason why he didn't do that is because he wanted to put the generals on the spot.

　　That means generals...Because they have been saying this is not a coup⁷, so the differences if they force a coup, if it comes out as a proper military coup, then these army generals lose legitimacy⁸ for their actions.

　　Right now they are using the Constitution. They are using the march which happened yesterday which was attended by you know, even into the, you know, over 100,000 people in town. They're using all of that to justify⁹ their action.

　　So is Mugabe then trying to force this into a military coup?

　　Most definitely he is. For all intents and purposes, he is trying to force it.

　　And now the next question now becomes how best will the military use their plan B?

　　Because impeachment was always plan B.

　　In fact, you could actually argue that was always the original plan but they just thought that

　　they had humiliated¹⁰ him so much with ZANU-PF, you know, putting him out of the party just this afternoon that he was just gonna take the graceful⁵ way out.

　　But he's still remaining adamant¹¹ and this is just how he, who is always been. He doesn't bow to anyone. undefined

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