“Khaya Moyo was troubled and conflicted by sad events of November 2017,” said Professor Jonathan Moyo.
Of course, Khaya Moyo was deeply troubled by the November 2017 military coup because he had supported Joyce Mujuru and was forever grateful when Mugabe forgave him when Mujuru and company were booted out of the party in 2014. To show his gratitude he had pledged his dying loyalty to Mugabe and G40.
When Mnangagwa was booted out of the party on 5 November 2017, it was Khaya Moyo who had announced the firing to the nation with a Cheshire-cat grin on his face. He must have been content that this time he had backed the winning horse.
Khaya Moyo had held ambition of being one of the VP in the Mujuru led government but that went up in smoke when Mujuru lost the rat race. Khaya Moyo was lucky to retain a senior position after 2014 and must have even began to hope he might still be VP after all.
The military coup must have come as a lighting bolt out of a clear blue sky. There was his hopes of becoming VP up in smoke once again! Indeed, he must have been worried sick that the coup leaders may consider him one of the G40 leaders and go after him big time.
G40 leaders like Professor Jonathan Moyo , Saviour Kasukuwere, etc. found themselves trapped like rats in a house on fire; they very lucky to escape with their lives. Many of the G40 supporters quickly switched their allegiance and kept their head down.
Khaya Moyo must have deleted all text messages, e-mails, etc. he had received from Mugabe, Jonathan Moyo, Saviour Kasukuwere and all the other G40 leaders. He did not know them and did not want to speak or hear from any of them.
Mnangagwa and his coup plotters have failed to revive the economy and so the political unrest is in the air and the infighting for power in Zanu PF itself is still as intense as ever. The Lacoste faction divided into two soon after the coup and the G40 is threatening a come back. Poor Khaya Moyo must have felt being pulled hither and thither forever fearful of finding himself in the wrong basket again!
“Zanu PF ichatonga kuzvika madonki amera nyanga!” (Zanu PF will rule until donkeys have horns!) Khaya Moyo once boasted. I bet he never ever imagined that ruling could ever be so stressful!
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party leader said he would rather lose votes in the 2024 elections than allow millions of Zimbabweans, Nigerians and other nations to return home. In a tweet, Malema said:
ReplyDeleteSomeone said to me ‘if you want us to vote for you in 2024 you must abandon this thing of foreigners’. I’m prepared to go home. I’m fine.
I will never take a platform and denounce Africans. I will never do it. If it means votes are doing, let them go.
I’m prepared to go home. But to take a platform and please the white minority by pointing a finger at other fellow black brothers, I’m not going to do that.
When I see a Nigerian or a Zimbabwean or a Congolese or Ghanaian, I see myself.
The EFF can do internal research to see how much this thing is hurting the EFF, but I am not prepared to take a platform to say ‘foreigners must go home’. I would rather not be the president of South Africa.
I will be the president of my children at home. We will practice Cabinet issues there. I don’ want to.
You mean I should go and tell these hungry Zimbabweans to leave and when I tell them to leave, I send them where.
The issue of foreign nationals living in South Africa, especially those who are undocumented, continues to be a heated debate in southern Africa’s largest economy.
With political parties racing to form coalitions for 66 hung municipalities, two key king markers – Action SA led by former Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba and the Patriotic Alliance led by Gayton McKenzie – have made it clear that no illegal foreigners will be allowed to live in their municipalities.
As much as many Zimbabweans would cheer and applaud Julius Malema for his support of Zimbabwe’s economic and political refugees the real issue here is we are just kicking the can down the street. The solution is for Zimbabwe to solve its political problem of rigged elections and bad governance which are the root causes of the country’s economic meltdown and political paralysis.
Zimbabweans should be able to come back home without having to fear they will face starvation and worse because the country, under sound leadership, has the resources to give all its citizen a high standard of living. Least we forget, Zimbabwe in 1980 was a rich and prosperous country. The economic mess is a man-made problem and one mere mortals can put right again!
If Professor Jonathan Moyo had tried to call of text Khaya Moyo these few day after the Dzungu Day, the later would have not dared to answer for fear of being counting as one of the G40 leaders. It was none other than Professor Moyo himself who once confessed that it "was very cold outside Zanu PF" Considering he was the one who got out of Zanu PF like a rat out of a burning house - he clearly found inside Zanu PF can be very hot to bear.
ReplyDeleteZanu PF is a party of corrupt, incompetent and ruthless thugs who care not about the well being of the nation only their selfish needs. The sooner the nation can bite the bullet and implement the democratic reforms necessary for free, fair and credible elections; the sooner the nation can escape out of the man-made hell-hole Zanu PF landed us.
After 41 years of rigged elections, you would think Zimbabweans have learned what constitute free and fair elections by now and stop participating in these meaningless elections. Every five years we have our Dzungu Day and participate in rigged elections expecting a different result!
ReplyDeleteMDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere said any proclamation for elections must be accompanied by a clear reform roadmap that paves the way for an undisputed election. She added:
ReplyDeleteThe bad governance and legitimacy crisis that continues to plague Mr Mnangagwa’s regime is a direct result of the disputed election of 2018.
Mahere added that there was a need to disband the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) which is accused of being captured by the ruling ZANU PF.
MDC-T spokesperson Witness Dube said ZANU PF’s claims that the opposition feared by-elections is a strategy meant to conceal the ruling party’s fear for electoral reforms.
MDC A’s call for a clear reform roadmap and for ZEC to be disbanded must be dismissed with the contempt they rightly deserve. What meaningful reforms can be implemented with less than two years to go to the 2023 elections?
It is insane to participate in flawed and illegal elections only to give vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. One can only hope that the penny has finally dropped in the country’s opposition empty heads. Zanu PF has offered a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition to participate and they have found the bait too irresistible in the past.
The opposition boycotted the by-elections in the period 2013 to 2018 but that was largely because they were broke. They may well do the same again for the same reason. Will have to wait and see if they will boycott the 2023 elections or greed will have the better of them again.
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is on a diplomatic charm offensive to ensure that he wins the impending 2023 polls.
ReplyDeleteMDC leaders sold-out big time by failing to implement even one reform during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. To add insult to injury, MDC are the ones giving vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy by participating in these flawed and illegal elections. ZEC has failed to produce something as basic as a verified voters' roll and yet MDC have insisted in participating in the elections regardless. Zanu PF has offered a few gravy train seats to entice the opposition and it has worked like magic.
Of course, it is insane to keep participating in flawed elections to give Zanu PF legitimacy and then make a big song and dance about Zanu rigging the elections. MDC leaders are selling out on free and fair elections and this must be stopped.
@ Jonathan Moyo
ReplyDelete“Notably, with Joice Mujuru and SK Moyo as the direct targets and Mnangagwa the beneficiary, the Zanu-PF Constitution was amended in Dec 2014 to scrap elections for the positions of two Second Secretaries and VPs and the National Chairman; the positions became appointed posts!
Between 2014 and 2017, SK Moyo was effectively in the political wilderness. Yes, he was party spokesperson and he ended up as Information Minister; but for the better part of that period, SK did not have much to say in govt or Zanu-PF. He had been badly humiliated and broken!
While SK Moyo did not draft the 6 Nov 2017 letter alone, as the letter's drafters included President Mugabe, Chombo, Kasukuwere and Grace who called the shots in the marathon meeting on the day; he fine turned it; and key phrases like Mnangagwa's "lack of probity" were his!
In 2017 SK Moyo's association with or involvement in the drafting of the 6th Nov letter dismissing Mnangagwa from govt and the 14th Nov presser accusing the ZDF Command Element of treason cost him the VP post; second time in three years, which this time went to Kembo Mohadi!
Like in 2014, SK Moyo expected the Vice Presidency of Zanu-PF in Nov 2017; out of his well founded but misplaced belief that the Unity Accord still mattered in the post-coup Zanu-PF and govt. He was the most senior and most deserving candidate, having been National Chairman!
Despite losing the Vice Presidency in 2014 and 2017 in a humiliating way, SK Moyo did not lose his head and above all he did not lose his decency. He did not celebrate the brutalization of the so-called G40, nor did he use the coup propaganda against President Mugabe!
TO CONCLUDE: if as citizens, we don't grant each other the rights in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of Zimbabwe and if we don't share Zimbabwe's founding values and principles in section 3 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe; to converge as citizens will be a tall order!
How strange that people like Professor Moyo always remember the rule of law when they are the victim of the lawlessness they visited on others when they were in power. A case of the devil quoting verses from the Bible!
Those trying to compare Mnangagwa and Mugabe are just wasting time for the exercise is as futile as a mouse or rabbit comparing a cobra and a black mamba - the two snakes mean death to the mouse! Mugabe was a corrupt, incompetent, murderous and vote rigging tyrant. The 2017 military coup remove Mugabe and a few Zanu PF thugs around him but the dictatorship itself was untouched it is therefore naive to expect change.
ReplyDeleteZanu PF has committed many, many serious crimes against the millions of innocent Zimbabweans and, as befitting a party of thugs, they also turned one each other. What most Zimbabweans with a brain would find outrageous is some one like Themba Mliswa pontifocating about the injustices Zanu PF leaders visited on S K Moyo but he has never said anything about a hell lot worse things the party visited on the millions of povo.
ReplyDeleteS K Moyo was a Zanu PF thugs in every sense of that word, just like Mnangagwa, Mugabe, Mliswa and the rest. Moyo played his part in creating and imposing the Zanu PF dictatorship and had his share of the spoils of power. He believe in the dictatorship and even boasted the regime will rule forever. S K Moyo, like the rest of the Zanu PF thugs, was not a hero to the people of Zimbabwe. And Mliswa must stop insulting the nation with this nonsense!
@ Mbofana
ReplyDelete“I am extremely infuriated, and severely enraged - as we reach the shameful two-week mark without any running water in our homes - in spite of the latest broken promises, by our local authority, assuring us that strides had been made in ensuring that we immediately received the precious life-giving liquid.
Yet, absolutely nothing has been forthcoming.
It's time ratepayers collectively withheld municipal payments until service provision improved.”
Your frustration is completely justified but I don’t think asking rate payers to stop paying their rates will solve anything. To start with you statement is based on a false assumption that people have been paying their dues and the commensurate services have not been provided.
The country’s serious economic meltdown has affected everyone and everyone in this case is a rate payer directly or indirectly and therefore it is not surprising that most municipalities are broke. Yes, the situation has been made worse, much worse, by the incompetence and corruption endemic in these local authorities as in every other institution in the land.
If we are serious about improving the economic situation n Zimbabwe then we must address the underlying cause of the economic melt down and corruption - the curse of rigged elections and bad governance!