Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party set to sack Mugabe - Reuters

Report coming out of Zimbabwe, say the country's ruling ZANU-PF party is set to meet to sack President Robert Mugabe and reinstate former vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was dismissed last week by Mugabe.

According to two party sources who reveal the new development to Reuters, a party central committee meeting scheduled for 10.30am local time on Sunday will also dismiss Mugabe's preferred successor, his wife Grace, from her role as head of the ZANU-PF Women's League.

Mugabe's 37-year rule has been effectively at an end since the army seized control on Wednesday, putting the 93-year-old president under house arrest, saying it was targeting "criminals" around him.

Shortly after the sources revealed the meeting, a motorcade left Mugabe's official residence in the capital Harare to boos and jeers from onlookers, although a security said Mugabe was not inside.

Hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of Harare on Saturday singing, dancing and hugging soldiers in an outpouring of elation at Mugabe's demise, while others marched towards his residence.

A man carries a poster calling for Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to step down as Zimbabweans take to the streets in Harare, Zimbabwe, November 18, 2017.

In scenes reminiscent of the downfall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989, men, women and children ran alongside the armoured cars and the troops who stepped in this week to oust the only ruler Zimbabwe has known since independence in 1980.

Under house arrest in his lavish "Blue Roof" compound, Mugabe has seen support from his ZANU-PF party, security services and people diminish in less than three days.

According to the report, Mugabe's nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, told Reuters that Mugabe and his wife were "ready to die for what is correct" rather than step down in order to legitimise what he described as a coup.

Speaking from a secret location in South Africa, Zhuwao said Mugabe had hardly slept since the military took over but his health was otherwise "good".

Culled and edited from Reuters.