Life after Mugabe long planned � Selolwane

A former lecturer of Sociology at the University of Botswana, Onalenna Selolwane says she is not surprised that there is a military coup in Zimbabwe because it was long in the pipeline. A civil society activist, she says she was once invited to a meeting in Johannesburg, organised by the National Transitional Authority in Zimbabwe as part of their mobilisation project to prepare for post-Mugabe era.

“The civil society has long mobilised all stakeholders such as Zimbabweans in the Diaspora, churches, the military and all who care to unite in preparing for the post Mugabe era. They were concerned that there was a possibility or evidence that some people may try to hijack Zimbabwe in the event Mugabe was no longer President and they wanted to build an atmosphere of unity to ensure that that does not happen,” she says.