“Now we call @edmnangagwa to step down with immediate effect. We can't be ruled by thugs or otherwise we will bring back the tanks,” reads the tweet published on March 24, 2023.
Several Zimbabwean government accounts were tagged.
The claim was tweeted after broadcaster Al Jazeera aired an investigation exposing a money laundering ring in Zimbabwe dubbed the “Gold Mafia” that implicated individuals linked to the government.
The replies to the tweet were mixed: some believed the tweet was authentic and supported the purported call for Mnangagwa to step down, while others labelled the account as fake.
The claim in the tweet is, indeed, false.
The account behind the tweet @zimnationalarmy was created in July 2022. The link in its Twitter biography redirects to an inactive website.
The official army website links to a different Twitter account, @ArmyZimbabwe (archived here). This account was created in 2018 but is seldom used -- the last and only post was on June 24, 2020, about alleged incidents involving troops deployed during the Covid-19 lockdown.
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