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Tsvangirai condoning the turmoil in Egypt,'he is unfit to lead Zimbabwe': Moyo
01 Feb 2011 at 02:23hrs | Views
In an interview last week with far right wing American broadcaster, Fox News, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Mr Tsvangirai insinuated there was "nothing wrong" with Zimbabweans revolting violently against their Government.
Asked on the possibility of the Egyptian and Tunisian-type uprisings in Zimbabwe, Mr Tsvangirai said: "To me, when people take their rights, and start demanding more rights, there is nothing wrong with that, including in Zimbabwe. That was the whole purpose of our (MDC-T) struggle for the last 10 years."
Professor Jonathan Moyo said, "He is the only politician at his level who has used violence not only to settle political scores in his party but also to divide and split his party."
Prof Moyo said the citizens of Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen were revolting against puppet governments. Egypt receives around US$8 billion in aid from the US every year and is the second largest recipient of such funding after Israel.
"The one obvious common thread and very telling thing about what is going on in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen is that the unrest is targeting leaders and Governments that are perceived to be under massive handholding by the US."
"The leadership in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen are perceived by its citizens to be American puppets."
"What is significant about developments in the Middle East is that the protests are essentially anti-American and anti-West and therefore anti-imperialism and anti-neo-colonialism."
"It is the type of popular anger that we would most certainly have here in Zimbabwe should our country suffer the misfortune of falling into the hands of a puppet MDC-T under massive handholding by the US administration as predicted by Christopher Dell in the Wikileaks revelations."
He said revolts taking place in the Arab world could not happen in countries like Zimbabwe, Cuba or Venezuela.
"Zimbabweans should not forget that over the last 10 years Tsvangirai and his cronies have used any upheaval that has taken place in countries like Indonesia or Ukraine to wish it upon Zimbabwe, including natural calamities like tsunamis," Prof Moyo said.
He said this reflected MDC-T's ideological bankruptcy and also explained "why Tsvangirai is unfit to lead the country and will never lead it".
Asked on the possibility of the Egyptian and Tunisian-type uprisings in Zimbabwe, Mr Tsvangirai said: "To me, when people take their rights, and start demanding more rights, there is nothing wrong with that, including in Zimbabwe. That was the whole purpose of our (MDC-T) struggle for the last 10 years."
Professor Jonathan Moyo said, "He is the only politician at his level who has used violence not only to settle political scores in his party but also to divide and split his party."
Prof Moyo said the citizens of Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen were revolting against puppet governments. Egypt receives around US$8 billion in aid from the US every year and is the second largest recipient of such funding after Israel.
"The one obvious common thread and very telling thing about what is going on in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen is that the unrest is targeting leaders and Governments that are perceived to be under massive handholding by the US."
"The leadership in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen are perceived by its citizens to be American puppets."
"What is significant about developments in the Middle East is that the protests are essentially anti-American and anti-West and therefore anti-imperialism and anti-neo-colonialism."
"It is the type of popular anger that we would most certainly have here in Zimbabwe should our country suffer the misfortune of falling into the hands of a puppet MDC-T under massive handholding by the US administration as predicted by Christopher Dell in the Wikileaks revelations."
He said revolts taking place in the Arab world could not happen in countries like Zimbabwe, Cuba or Venezuela.
"Zimbabweans should not forget that over the last 10 years Tsvangirai and his cronies have used any upheaval that has taken place in countries like Indonesia or Ukraine to wish it upon Zimbabwe, including natural calamities like tsunamis," Prof Moyo said.
He said this reflected MDC-T's ideological bankruptcy and also explained "why Tsvangirai is unfit to lead the country and will never lead it".
Source - Byo24NEWS
