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13 July 2008
By Makusha Mugabe
What has been described by The Zimbabwetimes as a political bombshell - Professor Jonathan Moyo’s return to Zanu (PF) and criticising of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) President Morgan Tsvangirai, is no bombshell at all – only the ranting of a desperate political prostitute looking for another trick.
Jonathan Moyo knows that he has no future in MDC because its members do not forgive him for the irreparable damage he did through his intellectual justification for creating an environment in which democratic opposition was not tolerated.
How A Professor Turns Into A Greenbomber
Zanu (PF) had given him a lifeline following his fall-out with the Ford Foundation and he threw himself headlong into building its propaganda machinery - abandoning all his criticism of Zanu (PF) in order to join Mugabe’s government as Minister of Information.
But when he became too ambitious, failed to carry out his Tsholotsho mission, was exposed, and thrown out of Zanu (PF), he reverted back to being an a critic of Mugabe in the hope of gaining acceptance in the opposition ranks.
The MDC saw through his designs and denied him the chance, but tactically did not put up a candidate to challenge him in his his Tsholotsho seat.
Now Zanu PF is desperate again for an ideology as international consensus is building up against it at the UN and in Africa, he has cut another deal with the devil to destroy the people’s President by re-running the “Morgan Tsvangirai lacks leadership qualities lines” that have previously failed to diminish his stature.
And to show his ever-changing colours, maybe his true colours, Moyo is now fiercely defending the legitimacy of Robert Mugabe’s victory in a one-man election that came after he had battered the opposition into withdrawing.
The intellectual in Professor Moyo seems to have fled as he seeks to justify that, since more people had died in the 1985 election, Morgan Tsvangirai should have allowed his supporters, polling agents and candidates to go to polling stations and be killed by soldiers and militia deployed throughout the country by Mugabe.
Besides the rumours that he has been offered his old job back in Mugabe’s government, Moyo must have been offered something even much bigger to cause him to lose his senses so much as to suggest that decision-making in the MDC is now with fund raisers, Strive Masiyiwa and Roy Bennett, without offering a shred of evidence.
Which decisions were made by Masiyiwa and Bennett?
Readers will be aware that at the time that the decision to pull out was made, the MDC was divided on the issue. Roy Bennett actually issued a statement saying that the MDC was not pulling out.
He was only convinced when the MDC Council met and received reports from the field about how extensively the military had been deployed, which would have made it impossible for election officials to be deployed.
Roy Benett lost his farm and is unlikely to fund the MDC, except through funds raised by members as he is the treasurer general. It is a well-known fact that the MDC has extensive structures in the diapora which raise funds for it. If Masiwa also donates, it is his right as a citizen.
Just as Moyo is free to rejoin Zanu-PF, and within his hypocritical right to do so, but he should not harbour such delusions as to believe that Zimbabweans will just believe anything he says.
Now he says the West is displaying “too much fascination with Zimbabwe’s internal politics” as if he had a gun held to his head. His brief obviously has to do with whipping up African nationalism and pit Africa against the Western critics of Mugabe in an attempt to ward off the sanctions .
He even suggests that the MDC should not talk about the people who are being killed, as if it was quite normal for people to be killed in elections in Zimbabwe.
But he really shows how loony he has gone by suggesting that, like Joshua Nkomo, Tsvangirai must just “bury the hatchet” and go into a government of national unity with Zanu-PF.
In fact the interview published by the Zimbabwetimes.com reads like the usual cheap attempts by the CIO to pretend to know what is going on in the MDC while at the same time suggesting that that Mugabe is legal and legitimate and that he is the ideal candidate to lead a Government of National Unity (GNU) between Zanu-PF and MDC.
“The question of the legal legitimacy of the President is a done deal and also the need for a GNU is necessary. President Mugabe has the legal legitimacy as Head of State,” he said.
He also “startled” the Zimbabwetimes editors when he suggested that Mugabe’s legitimacy arouse from the fact that Tsvangirai entered the run-off race and no one won the presidency outright on the 29th of March.
In fact Moyo was sounding more like a greenbomber than a professor when he said it was important to make the pen permanent, but “when the pen risks reversing the gains of the liberation struggle at a time when those who fought for that liberation are still alive, you risk conflict.
“The gun was held by people who are still in charge of this country. It makes logical sense the gun is more important than a pen. It’s very important to note that we are operating in a country whose background is still dominated by people who liberated it.
“Britain is trying to use the pen to stake its political interests in our country. If a former colonial power tries to take advantage of the pen it certainly invites the gun. Where does Britain get the audacity to make Zimbabwe its business…
“We can’t have the EU saying we won’t recognize a government led by so and so but we will recognize a government led by so and so; on what basis?
“Each time the Americans and the British make noise about our politics, they definitely annoy nationalist Zimbabweans,” said Moyo who is a magnet for journalists – journalists who we hope this time they will realise that they are being led up the mind of a Professor who has turned himself into a greenbomber - maybe for the same reason that greenbombers are killing people.
To cap it off Moyo said that he was “really impressed” by South African President Thabo Mbeki’s mediation, which he said helped avert a higher risk of an all-out conflict in Zimbabwe.
“The person who helped calm down these emotions is Thabo Mbeki,” Moyo said.
“He is playing a crucial role,” he said, referring to the SA President who allowed Mugabe to ride rough-shod over the opposition, abandon negotiations, rig an election using violence, and now wants his Presidency to be legitimised through a power-sharing agreement.- Change Zimbabwe.com.
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