Moyo uses GNU mark2 talk to attack 'successionalist' Mnangagwa - no love lost between the two!

"Successionists using the cover of interparty talks to stampede President Mugabe out of his electoral mandate are playing with fire!'" warned Jonathan Moyo on his Twitter account.

The Higher Education Minister was comment on recent reports that Zanu PF has been holding talks with the MDC factions with the view of forming another GNU to hopefully address the country's worsening economic situation.
 
What Minister Moyo is clearly failing to accept here the reality that it is not the successionists or anyone else who are stampeding President Mugabe out of office but the economic meltdown. The economic situation which has forced unemployment to soar to 90% plus, 16% living in abject poverty, etc. and it is set to get worse not better as long as Zanu PF remains in office. The present economic situation is socially, economically and politically unsustainable.

What "electoral mandate" is Minister Moyo wittering about? It was the rigging of the July 2013 elections by President Mugabe and Zanu PF strategists like himself, VP Mnangagwa and others that is at the very heart of our political and economic crisis. This Zanu PF regime has lost all political credibility and legitimacy because it rigged the elections and the end result is the party does not have political courage to address the country's pressing economic problems like corruption and mismanagement and the trust of foreign investors and donors.

Whether Minister Moyo, President Mugabe or anyone else in Zanu PF likes or not Zanu PF's grip on political power is slipping and no amount of "playing with fire" threatening will change that.

It is clear that the interparty talks are in fact taking place and Minister Moyo is using the talks to fight the "successionalists" by whom the Minister is referring to VP Mnangagwa and his supporters. Minister Moyo belongs to the G40 faction who includes Minister Kasukuwere, Minister Patrick Zhuwao (President Mugabe's nephew who has become increasingly vocal) and the President's wife Grace.

Mnangagwa and his supporters and the G40 faction were united in their fight to stop Mai Mujuru being elected VP but as soon as they had Mujuru and her supporters purged out of the party that the papered over cracks opened into fissures.

Zanu PF was always doomed to implode because the party lacked democratic values with which to manage orderly change. Now with President Mugabe clearly incapacitated by his advanced old age and failing health the party is being bounced into the reality that he is not going to be leader for much longer. But since there is no orderly way of choosing the successor it is dog-eat-dog.

There is no love lost between Minister Moyo and the Mnangagwa successionalists; this is going to be a fight to the finish and neither side is taking any prisoners!

President Mugabe has used all manner of tricks including threats, beating, rape, rigging elections and even murder of his political challenges to stay in power. He has successfully avoided regime change for the last 35 years but that is now coming to an end. Three and half decades of misrule have taken such have heavy toll on the economy, Zanu PF must go to save the nation from more economic misery and social instability.
Regime change is now as certain as the sun rising tomorrow.