This is the surreal moment anti-Mugabe protests in Zimbabwe were hijacked by football fans holding a 'Wenger out'.

Activists have taken to the streets of the capital Harare in recent days to increase pressure on dictator Robert Mugabe to step down.

But some also took the opportunity to jokingly voice their frustration with long-serving Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger who has come in for criticism in recent years with the club not having won the Premier League since 2004.

This is the surreal moment anti-Mugabe protests in Zimbabwe were hijacked by football fans holding a 'Wenger out' banner and calling for Arsenal's French manager to resign.

Amid a sea of Zimbabwe flags and placards carrying political messages was a sign saying 'Wenger out'

Amid a sea of Zimbabwe flags and placards carrying political messages was a banner saying 'Wenger out'.

It emerged despite Arsenal winning the North London derby against hated rivals Tottenham on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF will discuss the impeachment of President Robert Mugabe on Monday, its chief whip said, after a noon deadline expired for the 93-year-old to resign and bring the curtain down on nearly four decades in power.

Impeachment could see Mugabe kicked out by a vote in parliament in under a day and would represent an ignominious end to the career of the 'Grand Old Man' of African politics, who was once lauded across the continent as an anti-colonial hero.

Activists have taken to the streets of the capital Harare in recent days to increase pressure on dictator Robert Mugabe to step down. But some also took the opportunity to jokingly voice their frustration with long-serving Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger who has come in for criticism in recent years with the club not having won the Premier League since 2004

Chief whip Lovemore Matuke told Reuters ZANU-PF members of parliament would meet at 1230 GMT to start mapping out Mugabe's impeachment.

In the draft motion, the party accused Mugabe of being a 'source of instability', flouting the rule of law and presiding over an 'unprecedented economic tailspin' in the last 15 years.

It also said he had abrogated his constitutional mandate to his hot-headed and unpopular 52-year-old wife Grace, whose tilt at power triggered the backlash from the army that saw it put tanks on the streets of the capital last week.