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Open Letter to the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe
27 Jun 2017 at 01:55hrs | Views
The Editor,
I demand an honest answer from Mr. Mugabe. I want to know how he sit on the kitchen table with Bona and tell her that he is charting the way forward for Zimbabwe with someone who has called him a principally a colonial politician steeped in an outdated nationalistic outlook.
Jonathan Moyo is the only Government Minister who has called Mugabe "stupid" yet Mugabe turns to him for advice and strategies.
Am I reading too much into these spates between Moyo and Mugabe? Can the President please tell me and the whole country why he would entrust someone who calls him a "tired" and "outdated" with the future of the country?
Please see below for yourselves. This is all public information that I got in less than an hour.
Why Mugabe should go now: Jonathan Moyo (2005)
Nov12 2014
PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, sad or happy, foolish or wise must finally come to an end. It is from this sobering reality that the end of executive rule has finally come for Robert Mugabe who has had his better days after a quarter of a century in power
http://nehandaradio.com/2014/11/12/mugabe-go-now-jonathan-moyo-2007/
Tsholotsho saga: the untold story
December 17, 2004
December 18, 2004
December 23, 2004
AS President Robert Mugabe's days in office become numbered with less than 23 uncertain months before the expiry of his current disputed tenure that will end his controversial rule since 1980, the ruling Zanu PF is finding itself in a triple trap that is turning its long delayed and now acrimonious search for Mugabe's successor into an ill-fated affair.
This is due to the unresolved consequences of the increasingly topical yet hitherto undefined Tsholotsho Declaration of November 18, 2004 whose ghost is now haunting Zanu PF succession politics.
Because I am one of those who were intimately involved in the Tsholotsho Declaration, and because some Zanu PF politicians and sections of the media have claimed that I am the architect of that declaration which they say was a coup plot when it wasn't, I believe that it is now in the national interest for me to make a full disclosure of what I know about the content of this declaration and its wider national implications without fear or favor.
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2004/12/17/tsholotsho-saga-the-untold-story/
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2004/12/23/tsholotsho-saga-the-untold-story-2/
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2004/12/17/tsholotsho-saga-the-untold-story-3/
Leaving all to Gono won't bring sunrise
May 9, 2003
WILL the nation leave Gideon Gono, the governor of the Reserve Bank, alone?
When President Robert Mugabe last week publicly made a call for people to "leave Gono alone" many besides those who know themselves to be the guilty were left wondering what he meant. But after Gono's wide-ranging and far-reaching mid-term monetary policy statement this week, one need not guess he meant that the Zanu PF government, including Mugabe himself, should "leave everything to Gono".
That is why Gono's monetary statement dealt with everything and everyone in concrete ways. The national breadth, depth and consequences of Gono's monetary statement stand in sharp contrast to the dire poverty of Mugabe's speech at the opening of the second session of the sixth parliament last week.
The speech was full of propaganda platitudes and bereft of policy responses to the economic meltdown that is ravaging the country. In fact, so empty was Mugabe's address that nobody remembers what he said.
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2003/05/09/leaving-all-to-gono-wont-bring-sunrise/
Mugabe's mess doesn't require British solution
May 9, 2003
Yet the Banjul meeting had a decidedly colonial outcome in that Mugabe used it to reveal his yearning for a British solution to the Zimbabwean crisis. He now wants the world to believe his Zanu PF propaganda that the cause of the Zimbabwean crisis is a bilateral dispute between Zimbabwe and Britain that started after the land reform programme in 2000.
But to accept this propaganda one would have to conclude that Mugabe's legendary posturing about sovereignty is deliberately deceitful. Maybe this is indeed the case. And maybe this is what has been missed about Mugabe, namely, that he is principally a colonial politician steeped in an outdated nationalistic outlook.
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2003/05/09/mugabes-mess-doesnt-require-british-solution/
Mugabe too tired to pull Zimbabwe out of the woods
May 30, 2003
OF the various problems in Zimbabwe that account for the seven-year-old political stalemate that has precipitated an unprecedented economic meltdown, the one that is now looming larger than any other is the chronic leadership deficit, particularly but not only in the Zanu PF government. So serious is this deficit that the most fundamental issue that explains the palpable despair among Zimbabweans today is leadership, stupid.
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2003/05/30/mugabe-too-tired-to-pull-zimbabwe-out-of-the-woods/
Mugabe must not succeed himself
June 13, 2003
AS President Robert Mugabe's troubled days in power become truly numbered amid ill-fated machinations by his military and security handlers to keep him at State House until 2010 through a subversive constitutional amendment that has been on the evil deck of cards for more than a year, his continued stay in office has become a source of national pain and international shame for Zimbabweans.
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2003/06/13/mugabe-mustnt-succeed-himself/
ZANU(PF) Conference will take us back to pre1987
June 13 2003
IS Zimbabwe finally set to return to the pre-1987 constitutional dispensation in which executive power and authority was exercised by a prime minister as head of government appointed from the party that commands a majority in parliament, while the head of state is a ceremonious president elected by parliament?
……
The essence of this extraordinary state of emergency is that Zimbabwe has virtually ground to a catastrophic halt and is simply not functioning anymore as a normal country. This ruinous situation will continue for as long as Mugabe remains in office with executive power and authority.
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2003/06/13/zanu-pf-conference-will-take-us-back-to-pre-1987/
Croc jibes angered me: Moyo
February 14, 2016
Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo claimed in an interview with a local radio station that taunts on social media by fellow Zanu PF members believed to be supporters of Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa traumatised him. Moyo made the revelations in the interview with ZiFM, which was pulled off air under a cloud but was leaked to The Standard last week. The former Information minister, who is locked in a fierce war of words with Mnangagwa's followers, said his tormentors had been sending him "photo-shopped" images of either himself or family members being eaten by crocodiles. He said the taunts worsened after his daughter Zanele was found dead in South Africa last year
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2016/02/14/croc-jibes-angered-me-moyo/
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2003/06/13/zanu-pf-conference-will-take-us-back-to-pre-1987/Sacked-minister-Moyo-forms-third-force-to-fight-Mugabe.html
http://www.insiderzim.com/jonathan-moyo-said-mnangagwa-was-too-loyal-to-mugabe/
Jonathan Moyo said Mnangagwa was too loyal to Mugabe
Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo told United States ambassador Christopher Dell that Emmerson Mnangagwa, considered one of the front-runners to succeed President Robert Mugabe, was too loyal to Mugabe to upset the cart.
He even cited a joke that was doing the rounds in Harare that when Vice-President Joseph Msika told Mnangagwa that he and Mugabe were stepping down, Mnangagwa told him he would step down too.
"A few months ago, Moyo reported, Vice President Msika advised Mnangagwa that Mugabe and Msika were preparing to step down; Mnangagwa responded that he would step down too," Moyo told Dell according to a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks.
John Nkomo and Jonathan Moyo did not see eye-to-eye
Former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politburo member Simba Makoni told United States embassy officials that ZANU-PF chairman John Nkomo and Information Minister Jonathan Moyo did not see eye to eye though they came from the same district, Tsholotsho.
He said that "a rough edge" had always separated the two, dating back decades.
Makoni was speaking about how the party's top body had become dysfunctional.
There was also lack of discipline and self-respect. The flap over land nationalisation was clear evidence that the party was seriously disjointed.
Moyo had purposely distorted Nkomo's comments to make him look bad. He said that Nkomo's interview had characterised nationalisation as pertaining to compulsorily obtained land only, but that Moyo had purposely overstated his comments, only to qualify them later in a way that made Nkomo appear to be flip-flopping.
http://www.insiderzim.com/john-nkomo-and-jonathan-moyo-did-not-see-eye-to-eye/
Zvobgo Jnr and Jonathan Moyo differ on future of VP Mujuru
Eddison Zvobgo Junior believed that President Robert Mugabe could step down and allow Vice-President Joice Mujuru to stand as president in 2008 provided she could protect him from prosecution but Mugabe's former spin doctor Jonathan Moyo thought that he was not going to step down until 2010 but might change the constitution to create the post of Prime Minister for Mujuru.
Zvobgo said after the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front conference at Goromonzi in December 2006 it was now clear to him that Mugabe would not last beyond 2008 and that the discussion was shifting to the modalities of transition.
http://www.insiderzim.com/zvobgo-jnr-and-jonathan-moyo-differ-on-future-of-vp-mujuru/
The complete Jonathan Moyo Wikileaks cables- all 226 of them
No one has been so controversial in his short political career like former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo. He was a strong critic of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, then joined the party to become its propaganda chief, but got expelled for defying the party, but he was readmitted and got back into the politburo.
"The bottom line is that all animals are equal but some are more equal than others," he quipped on his readmission to ZANU-PF.
Moyo currently has the highest number of Wikileaks cables on our site all 226 of them. But we are still working on Tendai Biti and Gideon Gono, who both have more cables than Moyo.
http://www.insiderzim.com/the-complete-jonathan-moyo-wikileaks-cables-all-226-of-them/
Jonathan Moyo says both ZANU-PF and MDC are in disarray
Tsholotsho legislator Jonathan Moyo said both the Movement for Democratic Change and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had been significantly weakened since the March 2005 elections though ZANU-PF had won a two-thirds majority.
He said the MDC, which had lost 16 seats that it won in 2000, had missed an opportunity to take advantage of the public outcry over Operation Murambatsvina because it was inward looking.
The division over whether to participate in the senate elections or not could be disastrous for the party.
Moyo said ZANU-PF was "terminally rotten" and was increasingly being controlled by the security forces which remained loyal to Mugabe.
He said the party would attempt to put off the presidential elections until 2010 to give more time for Mugabe's successor to settle into the job.
Moyo, however, rejected the argument that Mugabe was the main impediment to reform saying that this was a convenient excuse.
Mugabe "is not a machine", he said. The real problem was the party itself.
http://www.insiderzim.com/jonathan-moyo-says-both-zanu-pf-and-mdc-are-in-disarray/
SA ambassador says Jonathan Moyo is not good friends with the truth
South Africa's ambassador to Zimbabwe Jeremiah Ndou said President Robert Mugabe was being misled by his inner circle of friends especially Information Minister Jonathan Moyo because he was "not good friends with the truth".
Ndou said the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had accused him and other Southern African Development Community ambassadors of distorting facts about what was actually happening in Zimbabwe.
He said that SADC members had urged the Zimbabweans to go to the International Monetary Fund to try to normalise relations, a move that the donors would notice but negotiation, not the "go to hell" approach so far adopted by the government of Zimbabwe, was needed.
He admitted that quiet diplomacy was not working: "The Zimbabweans will agree in private, then contradict these understandings as soon as they walk out the door".
http://www.insiderzim.com/sa-ambassador-says-jonathan-moyo-is-not-good-friends-with-the-truth/
Jonathan Moyo exposes dictatorial tendencies of ZANU-PF leadership
Jonathan Moyo is back in the limelight, overshadowing ZANU-PF spokesman Rugare Gumbo, yet only five years ago he said the ZANU-PF leadership was dictatorial. It did not abide by the wishes of the people. He is now part of that leadership.
http://www.insiderzim.com/jonathan-moyo-exposes-dictatorial-tendencies-of-zanu-pf-leadership/
Moyo says ZANU-PF is a party of tribalists with no direction
Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was a spent force. It was a party of tribalists with no direction.
He told a visiting United States delegation just before the 2005 parliamentary elections that ZANU-PF was a spent force and would be surprised by the election.
http://www.insiderzim.com/moyo-says-zanu-pf-is-a-party-of-tribalists-with-no-direction/
Sincerely,
Sam Wezhira
I demand an honest answer from Mr. Mugabe. I want to know how he sit on the kitchen table with Bona and tell her that he is charting the way forward for Zimbabwe with someone who has called him a principally a colonial politician steeped in an outdated nationalistic outlook.
Jonathan Moyo is the only Government Minister who has called Mugabe "stupid" yet Mugabe turns to him for advice and strategies.
Am I reading too much into these spates between Moyo and Mugabe? Can the President please tell me and the whole country why he would entrust someone who calls him a "tired" and "outdated" with the future of the country?
Please see below for yourselves. This is all public information that I got in less than an hour.
Why Mugabe should go now: Jonathan Moyo (2005)
Nov12 2014
PERENNIAL wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dictates that all earthly things great or small, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, sad or happy, foolish or wise must finally come to an end. It is from this sobering reality that the end of executive rule has finally come for Robert Mugabe who has had his better days after a quarter of a century in power
http://nehandaradio.com/2014/11/12/mugabe-go-now-jonathan-moyo-2007/
Tsholotsho saga: the untold story
December 17, 2004
December 18, 2004
December 23, 2004
AS President Robert Mugabe's days in office become numbered with less than 23 uncertain months before the expiry of his current disputed tenure that will end his controversial rule since 1980, the ruling Zanu PF is finding itself in a triple trap that is turning its long delayed and now acrimonious search for Mugabe's successor into an ill-fated affair.
This is due to the unresolved consequences of the increasingly topical yet hitherto undefined Tsholotsho Declaration of November 18, 2004 whose ghost is now haunting Zanu PF succession politics.
Because I am one of those who were intimately involved in the Tsholotsho Declaration, and because some Zanu PF politicians and sections of the media have claimed that I am the architect of that declaration which they say was a coup plot when it wasn't, I believe that it is now in the national interest for me to make a full disclosure of what I know about the content of this declaration and its wider national implications without fear or favor.
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2004/12/17/tsholotsho-saga-the-untold-story/
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2004/12/23/tsholotsho-saga-the-untold-story-2/
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2004/12/17/tsholotsho-saga-the-untold-story-3/
Leaving all to Gono won't bring sunrise
May 9, 2003
WILL the nation leave Gideon Gono, the governor of the Reserve Bank, alone?
When President Robert Mugabe last week publicly made a call for people to "leave Gono alone" many besides those who know themselves to be the guilty were left wondering what he meant. But after Gono's wide-ranging and far-reaching mid-term monetary policy statement this week, one need not guess he meant that the Zanu PF government, including Mugabe himself, should "leave everything to Gono".
That is why Gono's monetary statement dealt with everything and everyone in concrete ways. The national breadth, depth and consequences of Gono's monetary statement stand in sharp contrast to the dire poverty of Mugabe's speech at the opening of the second session of the sixth parliament last week.
The speech was full of propaganda platitudes and bereft of policy responses to the economic meltdown that is ravaging the country. In fact, so empty was Mugabe's address that nobody remembers what he said.
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2003/05/09/leaving-all-to-gono-wont-bring-sunrise/
Mugabe's mess doesn't require British solution
May 9, 2003
Yet the Banjul meeting had a decidedly colonial outcome in that Mugabe used it to reveal his yearning for a British solution to the Zimbabwean crisis. He now wants the world to believe his Zanu PF propaganda that the cause of the Zimbabwean crisis is a bilateral dispute between Zimbabwe and Britain that started after the land reform programme in 2000.
But to accept this propaganda one would have to conclude that Mugabe's legendary posturing about sovereignty is deliberately deceitful. Maybe this is indeed the case. And maybe this is what has been missed about Mugabe, namely, that he is principally a colonial politician steeped in an outdated nationalistic outlook.
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2003/05/09/mugabes-mess-doesnt-require-british-solution/
Mugabe too tired to pull Zimbabwe out of the woods
May 30, 2003
OF the various problems in Zimbabwe that account for the seven-year-old political stalemate that has precipitated an unprecedented economic meltdown, the one that is now looming larger than any other is the chronic leadership deficit, particularly but not only in the Zanu PF government. So serious is this deficit that the most fundamental issue that explains the palpable despair among Zimbabweans today is leadership, stupid.
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2003/05/30/mugabe-too-tired-to-pull-zimbabwe-out-of-the-woods/
Mugabe must not succeed himself
June 13, 2003
AS President Robert Mugabe's troubled days in power become truly numbered amid ill-fated machinations by his military and security handlers to keep him at State House until 2010 through a subversive constitutional amendment that has been on the evil deck of cards for more than a year, his continued stay in office has become a source of national pain and international shame for Zimbabweans.
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2003/06/13/mugabe-mustnt-succeed-himself/
ZANU(PF) Conference will take us back to pre1987
June 13 2003
IS Zimbabwe finally set to return to the pre-1987 constitutional dispensation in which executive power and authority was exercised by a prime minister as head of government appointed from the party that commands a majority in parliament, while the head of state is a ceremonious president elected by parliament?
……
The essence of this extraordinary state of emergency is that Zimbabwe has virtually ground to a catastrophic halt and is simply not functioning anymore as a normal country. This ruinous situation will continue for as long as Mugabe remains in office with executive power and authority.
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2003/06/13/zanu-pf-conference-will-take-us-back-to-pre-1987/
Croc jibes angered me: Moyo
February 14, 2016
Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo claimed in an interview with a local radio station that taunts on social media by fellow Zanu PF members believed to be supporters of Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa traumatised him. Moyo made the revelations in the interview with ZiFM, which was pulled off air under a cloud but was leaked to The Standard last week. The former Information minister, who is locked in a fierce war of words with Mnangagwa's followers, said his tormentors had been sending him "photo-shopped" images of either himself or family members being eaten by crocodiles. He said the taunts worsened after his daughter Zanele was found dead in South Africa last year
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2016/02/14/croc-jibes-angered-me-moyo/
https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2003/06/13/zanu-pf-conference-will-take-us-back-to-pre-1987/Sacked-minister-Moyo-forms-third-force-to-fight-Mugabe.html
http://www.insiderzim.com/jonathan-moyo-said-mnangagwa-was-too-loyal-to-mugabe/
Jonathan Moyo said Mnangagwa was too loyal to Mugabe
Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo told United States ambassador Christopher Dell that Emmerson Mnangagwa, considered one of the front-runners to succeed President Robert Mugabe, was too loyal to Mugabe to upset the cart.
He even cited a joke that was doing the rounds in Harare that when Vice-President Joseph Msika told Mnangagwa that he and Mugabe were stepping down, Mnangagwa told him he would step down too.
"A few months ago, Moyo reported, Vice President Msika advised Mnangagwa that Mugabe and Msika were preparing to step down; Mnangagwa responded that he would step down too," Moyo told Dell according to a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks.
John Nkomo and Jonathan Moyo did not see eye-to-eye
Former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politburo member Simba Makoni told United States embassy officials that ZANU-PF chairman John Nkomo and Information Minister Jonathan Moyo did not see eye to eye though they came from the same district, Tsholotsho.
He said that "a rough edge" had always separated the two, dating back decades.
Makoni was speaking about how the party's top body had become dysfunctional.
There was also lack of discipline and self-respect. The flap over land nationalisation was clear evidence that the party was seriously disjointed.
Moyo had purposely distorted Nkomo's comments to make him look bad. He said that Nkomo's interview had characterised nationalisation as pertaining to compulsorily obtained land only, but that Moyo had purposely overstated his comments, only to qualify them later in a way that made Nkomo appear to be flip-flopping.
http://www.insiderzim.com/john-nkomo-and-jonathan-moyo-did-not-see-eye-to-eye/
Zvobgo Jnr and Jonathan Moyo differ on future of VP Mujuru
Eddison Zvobgo Junior believed that President Robert Mugabe could step down and allow Vice-President Joice Mujuru to stand as president in 2008 provided she could protect him from prosecution but Mugabe's former spin doctor Jonathan Moyo thought that he was not going to step down until 2010 but might change the constitution to create the post of Prime Minister for Mujuru.
Zvobgo said after the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front conference at Goromonzi in December 2006 it was now clear to him that Mugabe would not last beyond 2008 and that the discussion was shifting to the modalities of transition.
http://www.insiderzim.com/zvobgo-jnr-and-jonathan-moyo-differ-on-future-of-vp-mujuru/
The complete Jonathan Moyo Wikileaks cables- all 226 of them
No one has been so controversial in his short political career like former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo. He was a strong critic of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, then joined the party to become its propaganda chief, but got expelled for defying the party, but he was readmitted and got back into the politburo.
"The bottom line is that all animals are equal but some are more equal than others," he quipped on his readmission to ZANU-PF.
Moyo currently has the highest number of Wikileaks cables on our site all 226 of them. But we are still working on Tendai Biti and Gideon Gono, who both have more cables than Moyo.
http://www.insiderzim.com/the-complete-jonathan-moyo-wikileaks-cables-all-226-of-them/
Jonathan Moyo says both ZANU-PF and MDC are in disarray
Tsholotsho legislator Jonathan Moyo said both the Movement for Democratic Change and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had been significantly weakened since the March 2005 elections though ZANU-PF had won a two-thirds majority.
He said the MDC, which had lost 16 seats that it won in 2000, had missed an opportunity to take advantage of the public outcry over Operation Murambatsvina because it was inward looking.
The division over whether to participate in the senate elections or not could be disastrous for the party.
Moyo said ZANU-PF was "terminally rotten" and was increasingly being controlled by the security forces which remained loyal to Mugabe.
He said the party would attempt to put off the presidential elections until 2010 to give more time for Mugabe's successor to settle into the job.
Moyo, however, rejected the argument that Mugabe was the main impediment to reform saying that this was a convenient excuse.
Mugabe "is not a machine", he said. The real problem was the party itself.
http://www.insiderzim.com/jonathan-moyo-says-both-zanu-pf-and-mdc-are-in-disarray/
SA ambassador says Jonathan Moyo is not good friends with the truth
South Africa's ambassador to Zimbabwe Jeremiah Ndou said President Robert Mugabe was being misled by his inner circle of friends especially Information Minister Jonathan Moyo because he was "not good friends with the truth".
Ndou said the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front had accused him and other Southern African Development Community ambassadors of distorting facts about what was actually happening in Zimbabwe.
He said that SADC members had urged the Zimbabweans to go to the International Monetary Fund to try to normalise relations, a move that the donors would notice but negotiation, not the "go to hell" approach so far adopted by the government of Zimbabwe, was needed.
He admitted that quiet diplomacy was not working: "The Zimbabweans will agree in private, then contradict these understandings as soon as they walk out the door".
http://www.insiderzim.com/sa-ambassador-says-jonathan-moyo-is-not-good-friends-with-the-truth/
Jonathan Moyo exposes dictatorial tendencies of ZANU-PF leadership
Jonathan Moyo is back in the limelight, overshadowing ZANU-PF spokesman Rugare Gumbo, yet only five years ago he said the ZANU-PF leadership was dictatorial. It did not abide by the wishes of the people. He is now part of that leadership.
http://www.insiderzim.com/jonathan-moyo-exposes-dictatorial-tendencies-of-zanu-pf-leadership/
Moyo says ZANU-PF is a party of tribalists with no direction
Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front was a spent force. It was a party of tribalists with no direction.
He told a visiting United States delegation just before the 2005 parliamentary elections that ZANU-PF was a spent force and would be surprised by the election.
http://www.insiderzim.com/moyo-says-zanu-pf-is-a-party-of-tribalists-with-no-direction/
Sincerely,
Sam Wezhira
Source - Sam Wezhira
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