Jonathan Moyo Savages Charamba Again
11 February 2016
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Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo yesterday slammed belligerent Information permanent secretary George Charamba on ZiFM Stereo, after the commercial radio station that is owned by ICT minister Supa Mandiwanzira granted him a right of reply to Charamba’s invective of last week.
In the explosive interview, Moyo panned Charamba roundly, suggesting that his former aide was overstepping his mandate as President Robert Mugabe’s press secretary.
Yesterday’s interview came after ZiFM Stereo pulled out of an earlier interview that it had granted Moyo to discuss a government scholarship programme in which the State plans to pay full school and boarding fees for all students in public schools who register for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) subjects this year.
Stem is being promoted as a key part of Zimbabwe’s long-term human capital development project.
The irate Moyo suggested then that political machinations had been behind the station’s last-minute decision to decline to host him after it aired Charamba’s controversial interview last week, in which the presidential spokesperson denigrated Moyo and other perceived opponents of embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
ZiFM Stereo strongly denied that it had “blacked out” Moyo, leading to the station interviewing him yesterday.
Moyo refuted Charamba’s claims that he had used his interview with the station last week to communicate Mugabe’s deep-seated concerns about Zanu PF factionalism.
“There is a certain decorum associated with the office of the president. He (Charamba) was angry, as if someone had snatched his girlfriend or owed him money,” the sharp-tongued Moyo said, criticising Charamba’s tone in his interview.
The clash between Moyo and Charamba comes as the ruling Zanu PF’s factional and succession wars are getting nastier and more confused by the day, amid growing frustration by the party’s Young Turks known as the Generation 40 group — who are opposed to Mnangagwa — that they are being blacked out by State media and other mass media outlets linked to senior party officials.-DailyNews

2 Replies to “Jonathan Moyo Savages Charamba Again”

  1. kkkk ! George Charamba our once reverred senior Political Scientist. How disappointing for us your juniors to note you have fallen victim to one of the lamest professionaI vices. Failure to distinguish the difference between politics and Political Science. Furthermore the role of a Politician and that of a Civil Servant. Usually a Civil Servant serves the Politician by giving informed Secretariat to the Politician without confusing his role with that of the Politician. It was kinda amusing reading Charamba’s tirade against Professor Moyo and other Ministers yet holding our breaths that our learned Professor may be tempted to reduce his scholar to size. Yes Charamba our esteemed President as of past records knows how to handle his appointees without siding with any faction. As the ultimate in hierarchy it would be demeaning for him to belong to a fraction of his party curved out by his appointee in opposition to another curved out by another of his appointees. He is in command of all of them. It`s such a shame that the crocodile is once again about to fall upon it`s sword again. Maybe it really is true that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks. Professor Moyo is one of the best Political Science gurus we have in Zimbabwe. As his graduands we are not astonished by the on and off carvotting between ZANU PF and the Professor.`

  2. kkkk ! George Charamba our once reverred senior Political Scientist. How disappointing for us your juniors to note you have fallen victim to one of the lamest professionaI vices. Failure to distinguish the difference between politics and Political Science. Furthermore the role of a Politician and that of a Civil Servant. Usually a Civil Servant serves the Politician by giving informed Secretariat to the Politician without confusing his role with that of the Politician. It was kinda amusing reading Charamba’s tirade against Professor Moyo and other Ministers yet holding our breaths that our learned Professor may be tempted to reduce his scholar to size. Yes Charamba our esteemed President as of past records knows how to handle his appointees without siding with any faction. As the ultimate in hierarchy it would be demeaning for him to belong to a fraction of his party curved out by his appointee in opposition to another curved out by another of his appointees. He is in command of all of them. It`s such a shame that the crocodile is once again about to fall upon it`s sword again. Maybe it really is true that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks. Professor Moyo is one of the best Political Science gurus we have in Zimbabwe. As his graduands we are not astonished by the on and off carvotting between ZANU PF and the Professor.`

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