'Jonathan Moyo is the inventor of Zanu-PF confusion'

Jealousy Mawarire, the journalist who was mired in controversy ahead of last year's disputed elections, has fingered Information minister Jonathan Moyo as "the architect and inventor of confusion" in Zanu PF.

In an unsolicited, hard-hitting opinion piece delivered to the Daily News yesterday, Mawarire - who unexpectedly dragged President Robert Mugabe to court last year and forced the election to take place before critical reforms had been put in place - accuses Moyo of introducing an alien doctrine of "disrespect for party seniors... which has gotten resonance in the State media and lately the First Lady Grace Mugabe's so-called meet-the-people rallies".

"Moyo did not just wake up one morning and decided to rubbish senior party leaders but he carefully created a team of editors and party personnel who, like Moyo himself, have deep-seated hatred for Mugabe (President Robert) and are well-known rabid critics of the incumbent in their not-so distant past.

"For some of us who have known Moyo for some time now, we don't regard him as a chameleon, he does not change his colours only that as a trained social scientist he knows too well the art of participant observation and this is what he has been doing in Zanu-PF - observe from within and continue with his fight against the party and its president from a vantage point and from within," Mawarire writes.

He added that this was the reason that Moyo had allegedly appointed as editors of State newspapers the likes of     Mduduzi Mathuthu and Edmund Kudzai, "whom we are gathering is set to bounce back to his position soon, (who) were fished out of the UK to come and edit the Chronicle and the Sunday Mail respectively".

"To think that these are the same guys who were savaging Mugabe in 2008 and a little longer after, but now they find themselves in very influential positions appointed by a Mugabe appointee and therefore serving at the pleasure of the same president they savaged and ridiculed not long ago, boggles the mind but also explains the nature of the task they have for their master and the targeted individual cannot be anyone but the president himself," he says.