Columnist / Jonathan moyo
Thokozani Khupe advised against challenging Mthuli Ncube in Cowdry Park
So it's now all but confirmed that Professor Mthuli Ncube and Dr Thoko Khupe will slug it out for Bulawayo's Cowdray Park parliamentary constituency in the 23 August 2023 harmonised general election. ...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 13:53hrs | 1758 | by Jonathan Moyo
Rethinking Bulawayo back to its roots, don't vote for donkeys
All addresses are local. Literally, everyone has a local address. No one has a national address. That's why politics is local. It's because everyone lives at or belongs to some local place. He...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 13:45hrs | 1239 | by Jonathan Moyo
Mnangagwa's election date proclamation is bad news
ON Wednesday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa gazetted a proclamation fixing August 23 as the date for the 2023 general elections. This might turn out to be a general election like no other before....Published: 31 May 2023 at 20:59hrs | 2076 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
A critical review of Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary
APRIL, famously characterised as "the cruellest month" by distinguished poet and literary critic TS Eliot in his critically acclaimed essay "The Wasteland" - not because its first day celebrates fools...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:07hrs | 725 | by Jonathan Moyo
Jonathan Moyo exposes Pachedu
The determination of the number, names and location of polling stations by @ZECzim is not based on the delimitation exercise or report; but on the number of registered voters at any given time for a p...Published: 28 May 2023 at 15:07hrs | 834 | by Jonathan Moyo
Election buzz has not gripped Zimbabwe
ELECTION 2023, A FIRST IN 43 YEARS: As Zimbabwe holds a General Election in the Heroes & Defence Forces MonthWhen it comes to the meaning of things whose spiritual force can move mou...Published: 25 May 2023 at 18:46hrs | 408 | by Jonathan Moyo
CCC's 'strategic ambiguity' is a cover for duplicity
1. BEFORE THE FACT:#CCC tells the media and the public that using 2007 electoral boundaries for the 2023 general election is out of the question, and proffers a very strong explanation for this po...Published: 07 May 2023 at 19:46hrs | 578 | by Jonathan Moyo
Chamisa's CCC in backdoor application to be joined as friends of the court in Mwonzora's ZEC challenge
In an interesting development, Jeremiah Bamu a legal practitioner - linked to @CCCZimbabwe and thought to be the party's proxy - has approached the ConCourt in an application to be joined as Amicus Cu...Published: 04 May 2023 at 19:51hrs | 227 | by Jonathan Moyo
Yet another dark day in a Zimbabwe court
Job Sikhala - the Zengeza West Member of Parliament who has been in jail without bail since June 2022 in unprecedented pre-trial detention - has been convicted by Harare Magistrate Marehwanazvo of obs...Published: 03 May 2023 at 22:06hrs | 737 | by Jonathan MOyo
Zimbabwe slips back to gukurahundi years
It is existentially draining and disempowering that the leader of Transform Zimbabwe Jacob Ngarivhume, has been shockingly convicted and sentenced for an effective three years in jail – for some twe...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 20:12hrs | 1389 | by Jonathan Moyo
Chamisa's CCC has only three officials
Five days ago, Nelson Chamisa was asked by Blessing Mhlanga on HStv Zimbabwe's #FreeTalk [see clip and YouTube link below] why he says his #CCC is strong when it only has three office bearers; like Za...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 20:40hrs | 1348 | by Jonathan Moyo
Jonathan Moyo exposes Al Jazeera documentary 'lies'
According to Alexander James, the Al Jazeera journalist who narrates the 'Gold Mafia' documentary, small-scale miners produce half of Zimbabwe's gold, but @ReserveBankZIM does not have enough money to...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 20:00hrs | 1990 | by Jonathan Moyo
FULL TEXT: Jonathan Moyo statement on Gold Mafia
Now that three of its four episodes have been – and notwithstanding the fact that the fourth episode might have bombshells in the form of controversial or shocking utterances by its main interlocuto...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 08:56hrs | 17902 | by Jonathan Moyo
Commonwealth has appalling human rights record
This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 162 | by Jonathan Moyo
Those pushing the #ZanuPFMustGo mantra have no ideological content beyond the hashtag
Dear Zanu-PF Comrades,Revolutionary greetings.Between 2018 and 2020 – on the back of the 15 November 2017 military coup that ousted President Mugabe and his government from power and...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:21hrs | 919 | by Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao
Khaya Moyo was troubled and conflicted by sad events of November 2017
Moro Sahwira wangu, you know I've lots of time and respect for you and your views. Clearly, we have profound differences of opinion on this issue, sparked by the personal tributes that some of us, so-...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 08:03hrs | 34 | by Jonathan Moyo
Madhuku assisting Mnangagwa escape consequences of breaching constitution
PRESIDENT EMMERSON MNANGAGWA BREACHED SECTION 96(2) OF THE CONSTITUTION OF BY FAILING TO NOTIFY THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE RESIGNATION OF FORMER VICE PRESIDENT KEMBO MOHADI: A Rejoinder to Professor Lovemor...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 18:14hrs | 35 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
The weaponisation of Covid-19 in Zanu-PF factional wars
A new deadly political threatTHERE is a new and dangerous security threat in Zimbabwe's politically dysfunctional post-November 2017 military state, under an increasingly factionalised Zanu-PF...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 14:50hrs | 17 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe opposition's squandered opportunities
The political opposition in Zimbabwe, particularly the MDC, is stuck in the middle: between making news headlines and making reform headways.This is not new.Being stuck between making ...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:18hrs | 8 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe needs Posap and not Esap
This article was extracted from Professor Jonathan Moyo's address to the Open Forum meeting in Bulawayo 27 years ago....Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 09:16hrs | | by Dr Jonathan Moyo
Jonathan Moyo's messy fallout with Grace Mugabe
Media enquiries have drawn my attention to a front-page story in today's (9 September) Standard newspaper in which the former first lady, Mrs Grace Mugabe, is said to have called on her alleged follow...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Jonathan Moyo's Chamisa Moment
AS Zimbabweans countdown to the Monday realignment elections, there is a palpable self-organising and self-propelling clamour for historic change - the spirit of 2018 - blowing in the air across Zimba...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 15:31hrs | 14615 | by Jonathan Moyo
WATCH: Whither Zimbabwe's Nationalist Project
Good Evening everyone, I'm very pleased to have this opportunity to share my ideas and views with you on the state of the Nationalist project in Zimbabwe. As I prepare to make my remarks I note that i...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 14:39hrs | 1401 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Jonathan Moyo back on twitter
There'll never be anyone like Cde RG Mugabe. I'm grateful for the opportunity to have served my country under & with him. I'm proud that I stood with & by this iconic leader during the trying ...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 16:15hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Tsholotsho Declaration of November 2004: the untold story
THIS is a continuation of an article we published last week in which the former Information minister reveals details of Zanu-PF's power struggle which culminated in the so-called Tsholotsho Declaratio...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 09:36hrs | 6326 | by Jonathan Moyo
'No amount of vilification will intimidate me'
This statement is pursuant to the lead story in today's Sunday Mail headlined, "Prof Moyo benefited from Command Agric." In the afternoon of Friday 24 March 2017, I had a chance encounter at State...Published: 27 Mar 2017 at 06:41hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Implications of the floods disaster in Tsholotsho village
UPDATE ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE FLOODS DISASTER IN WARD 6 OF TSHOLOTSHO NORTH CONSTITUENCY: BY HONOURABLE PROF. JONATHAN MOYO, MP 1. BackgroundOn ...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 12:17hrs | 1439 | by Jonathan Moyo
Jonathan Moyo's JM Nkomo Polytechnic Graduation Speech
ADDRESS BY THE GUEST OF HONOUR, THE MINISTER OF HIGHER AND TERTIARY EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ON "RE–ENGINEERING THE CURRICULUM FOR A SCIENCE AND...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 08:44hrs | 2139 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Jonathan Moyo's inbox turned into an 'insult' box
It's been a hectic week for all of us. There were issues galore on the menu of the week. I spent virtually all week responding to hundreds of msgs in my inbox. And I mean hundreds! Many, in fact most,...Published: 16 Mar 2015 at 08:15hrs | 5123 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Professor Jonathan Moyo on state of education sector
This week's Big Issue is about the big disconnect between our acclaimed literacy and our poor state of science and technology.While Zimbabwe has over the years held pole position with the high...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 16:55hrs | 2838 | by Professor Jonathan Moyo
Jonathan Moyo says criminal defamation is not only unconstitutional but also uncivilised
IS criminal defamation still valid as an offence in Zimbabwe? This is the big question of the week in the wake of last Thursday's controversial declaration by the Constitutional Court that has, in my...Published: 23 Feb 2015 at 12:40hrs | | by Professor Jonathan Moyo
Prof Jonathan Moyo's briefing to ZBC Board
INAUGURAL BRIEFING FOR THE ZIMBABWE BROADCASTING CORPORATION (ZBC) BOARD, POCKETS HILL, 29TH MAY, 2014.The Board Cha...Published: 30 May 2014 at 07:21hrs | 3389 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Prof Jonathan Moyo's unedited statement o Mliswa allegations
The following is an unedited statement issued by Jonathan Moyo last night in reaction to allegations made against him by Temba Mliswa."The allegat...Published: 02 Apr 2014 at 11:36hrs | 6653 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Professor Jonathan Moyo statement: Full text
The full spectrum of the mainstream media, without any exception, should be commended for the excellent job it is doing in the coverage of the abuse public funds and assets by some boards and manageme...Published: 04 Feb 2014 at 06:40hrs | 2540 | by Hon Professor Jonathan Moyo
'Independent or private media is a fallacy,' says Prof J Moyo
THE following is the full text of a public lecture delivered at the National University of Science and Technology by Professor Jonathan Moyo, the Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Servi...Published: 26 Nov 2013 at 15:01hrs | 382 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Jonathan Moyo's statement on the Zanu-PF politburo meeting
1. As Minister responsible for, among other things, the media it is important to me that the media in our country is not only depolarised but that it is also enabled to have full and balanced in...Published: 25 Nov 2013 at 04:48hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Essence of the Zimbabwean story - Jonathan Moyo
Excerpts of a Presentation by the Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, Professor Jonathan Moyo, to the Sanganai/Hlanganani World Travel and Tourism Africa Fair 2013 Buyers and Med...Published: 13 Oct 2013 at 07:10hrs | 1932 | by Jonathan Moyo
Tsvangirai a national security threat
IF there is anyone inclined to believe that Morgan Tsvangirai is fit to be elected to the office of the President of Zimbabwe in the forthcoming plebiscite, that belief must have gone up in smoke la...Published: 10 Jun 2013 at 16:46hrs | | by Professor Jonathan Moyo
Ill-informed Press statement exposes Tsvangirai
Last Friday's landmark decision by the new-look, nine-member Constitutional Court ordering President Mugabe to issue a proclamation as soon as possible fixing the date of the next harmonised elections...Published: 02 Jun 2013 at 06:03hrs | | by Professor Jonathan Moyo
Tsvangirai must be told to go peacefully
Zimbabweans, Sadc and AU policymakers including neutral observers around the world who have commended Zimbabwe's successful referendum on the new Constitution as the most fundamental and inclusive re...Published: 28 Apr 2013 at 07:21hrs | | by Professor Jonathan Moyo, MP
Reasons why Zimbabwe sent the UN team back to New York
Nothing better explains the wisdom behind the Government's rejection of the UN's intrusive conditionality for the funding of the forthcoming harmonised elections than the instructive UN folklore that ...Published: 21 Apr 2013 at 07:17hrs | 4276 | by Professor Jonathan Moyo MP
Magaisa is the clumsy architect of Tsvangirai's embarrassment
Is President Robert Mugabe required to issue the proclamation fixing the date of the next harmonised general election in consultation with Prime Morgan Tsvangirai - who must give his consent - in term...Published: 07 Apr 2013 at 05:46hrs | | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Tsvangirai helped save Mugabe from possible contempt of court charges
After having recently described himself effectively as neither a leader nor a player but as only a main actor, whose script and what role is Morgan Tsvangirai acting in his High Court bid filed las...Published: 01 Apr 2013 at 11:26hrs | 4020 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Beatrice Mtetwa, Gideon Gono the 'Untouchables'
One repugnant conduct that has developed like a cancer in Zimbabwe and which now needs to be tackled head-on without fear or favour is the scourge of untouchables which is based on a corrupt presumpt...Published: 24 Mar 2013 at 10:21hrs | 8816 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Gono has unleashed the Anti-Corruption body to scuttle indigenisation of banks
If like most rational people you believe that everything happens for a reason, then you must be among the many who are wondering about the reasons behind the unprocedural, illegal and unlawful actions...Published: 18 Mar 2013 at 05:24hrs | 4222 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Attempts to scuttle indigenisation
If there is one perennial truth about revolutionary processes, such as the current indigenisation reform programme, it is that they typically endure bruising challenges during which some battles may b...Published: 03 Mar 2013 at 07:09hrs | | by Pro Jonathan Moyo
'Gono’s intentions treacherous,' say Prof Moyo
THE ubiquitous and disappointing talk of the town last week was that the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Gideon Gono had for some strange reasons decided to irrationally and irresponsibly thr...Published: 17 Feb 2013 at 12:21hrs | 2584 | by Pro Jonathan Moyo
Revolutionary essence of the historic indigenisation reform programme
What is the revolutionary essence of the historic indigenisation reform programme and what are its ideological, legal and policy ramifications?It has become necessary to unpack this question i...Published: 03 Feb 2013 at 06:30hrs | | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Coltart's directive racist, illegal, barbaric
David Coltart, the Minister of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture, wrongly deployed to that key role by Welshman Ncube's MDC, just does not get it. His not-so-cleverly-hidden commitment to the Rhodes...Published: 27 Jan 2013 at 06:41hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Copac's moment of truth - Prof Jonathan Moyo
After a series of time-wasting stop-starts and foreign intrusions punctuated by a litany of false stalemates caused by the self-evident political immaturity and inexperience of some of its key gladiat...Published: 26 Aug 2012 at 13:45hrs | 2582 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
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