Prof Jonathan Moyo reveals secret behind how Zanu-PF won the elections

Professor Jonathan Moyo has revealed the secret of how Zanu-PF resoundingly won the harmonised elections last year.

The MDC-T, brimming with confidence, was left with no answer when Zanu-PF eased to an unprecedented 160 National assembly seat victory against its meagre 49seats.

Robert Mugabe of Zanu-PF went on to crush MDC-T's Morgan Tsvangirai by more than one million votes in the presidential race.

A bamboozled MDC-T said the vote had been stolen using advanced scientific technology from Nikuv that changed Tsvangirai's votes to Mugabe's.

Speaking at the Bulawayo Press Club on Thursday night, Prof Moyo said a profound knowledge of political science and history had made it easy for Zanu to win.

He said Zanu-PF had kept ahead of the game since independence by understanding and applying basic tenets of political science.

"Politics is a science that can be studied to identify trends and predict outcomes of events like elections. While the other parties were busy using out dated slogan chanting politics, we were busy looking into the future and using the country's demographics to map out our campaign," said Prof Moyo.

He said lack of appreciation of politics as a science was the undoing of other parties.

"All countries have political cycles. In Zimbabwe, the cycles are about 15 years, plus or minus three years. The first cycle from 1965 to 1980 involved a protracted armed struggle for independence," he said.

Prof Moyo said each cycle was distinct in that it has defined aspirations and challenges.

"The first cycle represented the need to reassert the unity of our people, address skewed wealth of our nation, deal with poverty gap caused by racial hatred, restore democracy that was lacking during UDI days, establish order in our country and assert our national sovereignty," he said.

Prof Moyo said between 1980 and 1995 to 98, the country was faced with the need to liberate the liberation movements, Zipra and Zanla and consolidate its political independence.

Zanu-PF provided that for the people through the unity accord in 1987.

Prof Moyo said a stumbling block to this aspiration was the Gukurahundi disturbances.

He said between 1998 and 2012, the country was faced with a need to attend to a need that was supposed to be fulfilled in the first 15 years of independence.

He identified the need as sovereign ownership of land.

"Our eyes were opened when a donor conference held under the auspices of the British was convened and basically threw out the Lancaster House agreement to implement drastic land reform in Zimbabwe. This was swiftly followed by hondo yeminda to fulfil the aspiration," said Prof Moyo.

He said the land reform had ensured that a majority of Zimbabweans could live off their land.

Prof Moyo said the country then faced the threat of regime change agenda and sanctions.

"While other parties were sloganeering, Zanu-PF yet again came up with a solution to people's needs, a consolidation of policy reforms that produced the Zim –Asset document. The economic blue print to turn the economy around," he said.

Prof Moyo said the post-election period this time resembled the same period after independence in 1980, where big things with big impact were possible.

He said Zimbabweans could only make it by uniting, celebrating their differences and harnessing all the human skills in the diaspora and within the country.