Jonathan Moyo refuses to accept Gukurahundi as 'western conspiracy'

INFORMATION Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo who says in his CV that his father was killed by soldiers during Mugabe's Gukurahundi madness has refused to back Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's claims that Gukurahundi was a "Western conspiracy".

Moyo was asked on Twitter by @zenzele of Radio Dialogue: "Do you agree with VP Mphoko that Gukurahundi was a western conspiracy?"

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The minister's response was: "As President Mugabe has said, Gukurahundi was a 'moment of madness' and that is the bottom line. There's no need for confusion on this."

On Facebook Moyo was asked the same question by Petros J. Dube: "Prof, what's your take on Mphoko's remarks concerning Gukurahundi?"
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"I'm still to come to terms with those remarks (by Mphoko) in terms of their intended meaning and purpose," Moyo responded.

"Meanwhile, I know that most people agree that the late VP Nkomo and President Mugabe addressed the Gukurahundi issue in very fundamental terms with rich lessons for all of us. There is no need to be revisionistic about this. I don't think there's a problem in the country about unraveling the causes of that dark period in our country's early independence period."

VP Mphoko is of the belief that the British are the ones to blame for Gukurahundi not his 91-year-old master.

"On Gukurahundi being a Western conspiracy. When Portugal gave up its over Seas teritorries, including Angola and Mozambique, Rhodesia's and South Africa's intelligence chiefs amlost walked to Lisbon to go and complain.  They were worried that the ANC and MK, and SWAPO will use Angola as an operational base into Namibia and South Africa, and Mozambique, will provide operational bases for the ANC and what they referred to as Rhodesian terrorists. They appealed to Portugal to think again. But Spinola refused and asked them to find their own solution," VP Mphoko wrote in one of his 2014 articles on Bulawayo24.