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'I will never rejoin ZANU PF' says Jonathan Moyo
22 Jan 2019 at 19:40hrs | Views
Exiled Former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has revealed that he is never going to join ZANU PF again either in disguise or directly.
Moyo said this when giving a synopsis of the book that he is writing called Letters to my father.
"I tell my father (in the book) that I regret I understood better after the damage had been done that by joining Zanu PF to change it; I risked having ZanuPF changing me." Moyo says."I assure him I'm done with ZanuPF and that my family will disown me if I ever again rejoin it in any disguise, shape or form."
Moyo says his book provides an academic narrative of the political dimension of Zimbabwe since days of the last Ndebele King Lobengula.
"Letters to my father is an academic memoir in which I unravel state politics in Zimbabwe since King Lobengula and I tell my father my story since his brutal murder; especially my ordeal in the ZanuPF leadership ranks between 2000-05 and 2009-17.
"On 22 January 1983 my father, Melusi Job Mlevu, was callously murdered in Tsholotsho by Gukurahundi soldiers and the CIO. They tortured him upon his arrest & in front of his family; got him to dig a shallow grave, tortured him again; pumped bullets into his body and buried him.
" The book starts with the November 2017 coup. I tell my father untold things about the coup. I tell him that Mnangagwa, Chiwenga, Shiri and others who sent soldiers to torture and murder him; also sent soldiers to come after me and my family but his spirit and God intervened."
Moyo further reveals that the book will contain the recent incidents over violence that rocked the country since the bloody coup that ended 37 years of Robert Mugabe's rule.
"On the back of the 2017 violent coup whose casualties remain hidden, the stolen 2018 poll and the 1 August 2018 atrocities, I tell my father that last week's Army massacres and Internet shutdown had the trappings of Gukurahundi; with the same murderers in charge then, in charge now."
Moyo said this when giving a synopsis of the book that he is writing called Letters to my father.
"I tell my father (in the book) that I regret I understood better after the damage had been done that by joining Zanu PF to change it; I risked having ZanuPF changing me." Moyo says."I assure him I'm done with ZanuPF and that my family will disown me if I ever again rejoin it in any disguise, shape or form."
Moyo says his book provides an academic narrative of the political dimension of Zimbabwe since days of the last Ndebele King Lobengula.
"Letters to my father is an academic memoir in which I unravel state politics in Zimbabwe since King Lobengula and I tell my father my story since his brutal murder; especially my ordeal in the ZanuPF leadership ranks between 2000-05 and 2009-17.
"On 22 January 1983 my father, Melusi Job Mlevu, was callously murdered in Tsholotsho by Gukurahundi soldiers and the CIO. They tortured him upon his arrest & in front of his family; got him to dig a shallow grave, tortured him again; pumped bullets into his body and buried him.
" The book starts with the November 2017 coup. I tell my father untold things about the coup. I tell him that Mnangagwa, Chiwenga, Shiri and others who sent soldiers to torture and murder him; also sent soldiers to come after me and my family but his spirit and God intervened."
Moyo further reveals that the book will contain the recent incidents over violence that rocked the country since the bloody coup that ended 37 years of Robert Mugabe's rule.
"On the back of the 2017 violent coup whose casualties remain hidden, the stolen 2018 poll and the 1 August 2018 atrocities, I tell my father that last week's Army massacres and Internet shutdown had the trappings of Gukurahundi; with the same murderers in charge then, in charge now."
Source - Byo24News
