2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état

===Sunday, 19 November ===

Mugabe was sacked by his party, and his wife and 20 of her associates were expelled as party members. However, in a speech delivered in Harare and broadcast on state television around the country, Mugabe ignored the party's actions and the political pressure around him, declining to resign and saying he would preside over the upcoming party conference.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/zimbabwes-ruling-party-dismisses-mugabe-as-its-leader-in-another-blow-to-his-presidency/2017/11/19/6a0d52d8-ccb1-11e7-b506-8a10ed11ecf5_story.html|title=Mugabe defies all expectations and declines to resign as Zimbabwe's president|last=Sieff|first=Kevin|date=19 November 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=19 November 2017|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=19 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119141452/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/zimbabwes-ruling-party-dismisses-mugabe-as-its-leader-in-another-blow-to-his-presidency/2017/11/19/6a0d52d8-ccb1-11e7-b506-8a10ed11ecf5_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ZANU-PF issued Mugabe a deadline of noon on 20 November to resign or face impeachment.<ref name="nytimes1119">{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/world/africa/zimbabwe-robert-mugabe.html | title=Robert Mugabe, in Speech to Zimbabwe, Refuses to Say if He Will Resign | work=The New York Times | date=19 November 2017 | access-date=20 November 2017 | archive-date=19 November 2017 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20171119222140/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/world/africa/zimbabwe-robert-mugabe.html | url-status=live }}</ref>