Mugabe Better Off with Moyo Inside Tent Pissing Out than Outside Pissing (or worse) In!‏
26 June 2015
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tough talk...Wilbert Mukori
tough talk…Wilbert Mukori

“Moyo’s victory was seen as spiting President Mugabe who had appointed him a Non-Constituency Member of Parliament before he proceeded to appoint him a minister in his bloated government,” commented a Bulawayo based Staff Reporter. I can well believe that!
Professor Moyo is already a heavy-weight in Zanu PF and government but when he lost his parliamentary seat in the July 2013 elections and had to depend on Mugabe’s generosity to pluck him out of obscurity it made Mugabe feel powerful. Mugabe is a control freak. Nothing pleases him more than to see all his subordinates grovel up to him.opinion_angry1-Copy
Winning back the Tsholotsho parliamentary seat after the humiliating defeat in 2013 would have pleased Moyo greatly and boosted his self-confidence while adding a peacock tail feather to his cap. Mugabe would have seen this as the Professor trying to re-assert himself. He waited for Moyo to take his seat in the cabinet meeting and then suddenly showing him the door in a calculated move designed to humiliate Moyo and remind him who is boss. Poor Jonathan Moyo, he clearly did not see this one coming and it knocked the wind out of his sail.
He has been the flying Zanu PF party and government supremo ruling his powerful ministry of information and dictating to all what they will know and think but often doubling up as government spokesman and supervising all other government departments. His bi-election victory was going to allow him to comment freely on parliamentary business without fear of the snotty rhetorical question “Who elected you?”
Yes, Professor Moyo must have entered the cabinet room expecting be showered with congratulatory greetings for his electoral victory. He certainly did not expect to be told to bugger off, he was no longer welcome there!
No wonder Moyo was suddenly and uncharacteristically quiet for a long time – a whole 48 hours – with nothing written or initiated, not even a tweeterish comment – nothing that is, other than speculation on what happened in the Cabinet room on Tuesday. Falling from such a dizzying height and landing on his bald head must have left our high flier dazed and for once, speechless.
This is not the first time Moyo has encountered unexpected humiliation. In 2013 we saw him being dressed down before the media. After Mugabe called Moyo the “devil incarnate and a weevil destroying Zanu PF from within” everyone thought the Professor’s beacon was fried! Didymus Mutasa was so pleased to see Moyo in trouble he even offered to supply the gamatox, the insecticide, to kill the weevils.
But a miracle happened soon afterwards. Whatever the Professor said or did to Mugabe at their private meeting after the public denunciation worked like a charm. It was Didymus Mutasa and others who were summarily sacked from cabinet, the party and then parliament. Moyo must have thought his charm worked and his position in cabinet was safe and secure.
The morale of Moyo’s story is that Zanu PF is imploding and no one’s position is safe not even Mugabe’s own position is safe. Mutasa has already started to spill the beans of how Zanu PF has been rigging elections and, no doubt, the drip, drip leak of the party’s dirty past will now continue until Mugabe and all still left in the party are forced to resign. Moyo will definitely have even more damaging details on Mugabe which if released will force the tyrant to resign immediately.
Throwing Professor Moyo out of the cabinet is one thing but if Mugabe throws him out of the party and parliament like he did with Mutasa and others then Mugabe’s days in State House will be numbered.
“It is probably better to have him (FBI director, Edgar Hoover) inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in,” said former US President Lyndon B Johnson. Mugabe’s position is a lot worse in that those inside the tent want to throw him out and those outside are more than pissing. They are shooting in!

25 Replies to “Mugabe Better Off with Moyo Inside Tent Pissing Out than Outside Pissing (or worse) In!‏”

  1. Understand what is happening in Zanu PF is important if we are to avoid making the same mistake.

  2. By making this comment, did you feed the people? Then why did you make it?
    Stop having this Boxer the horse in Animal Farm mentality that hard physical work alone will solve all the nation’s problems. The debate here is about what kind of leaders we want and that is why what happened in cabinet is important!

  3. If Moyo was beaten at the meeting then that is SOMETHING. President Mugabe and his cabinet are the ones who be dealing with the economic problems and they are not. The implosion in Zanu PF will help the nation get rid of this dictatorship.

  4. The thrust of Wilbert’s article was to show that President Mugabe is in trouble regardless what he does with Moyo!

  5. It’s not a bad thing to be well read in ALL issues of ones country. In fact it’s wise!

  6. And that something which happened will never feed the people.Why are you so obsessed with the circus of ZANU?.Whether Jonah was beaten or not its nothing.Deal with economic problems

  7. Do the rich care?Yes Mugabe is key to looting and killing.That I also agree.His relevance to our lives is there, but to our detriment.So to support Mugabe’s relevance is selfish and shortsighted unless you are an opportunist feeding on ZANU handouts

  8. Do the rich care?Yes Mugabe is key to looting and killing.That I also agree.His relevance to our lives is there, but to our detriment.So to support Mugabe’s relevance is selfish and shortsighted unless you are an opportunist feeding on ZANU handouts

  9. Do the rich care?Yes Mugabe is key to looting and killing.That I also agree.His relevance to our lives is there, but to our detriment.So to support Mugabe’s relevance is selfish and shortsighted unless you are an opportunist feeding on ZANU handouts

  10. Do not get carried away, something happened on Tuesday at the cabinet meeting!

  11. Do not get carried away, something happened on Tuesday at the cabinet meeting!

  12. Do not get carried away, something happened on Tuesday at the cabinet meeting!

  13. President Mugabe and Zanu PF are still key players in all our lives ignoring them will not change that fact. Che Guevara said he was fighting in the corner of the poor but that did mean he ignore the rich in the other corner!

  14. President Mugabe and Zanu PF are still key players in all our lives ignoring them will not change that fact. Che Guevara said he was fighting in the corner of the poor but that did mean he ignore the rich in the other corner!

  15. President Mugabe and Zanu PF are still key players in all our lives ignoring them will not change that fact. Che Guevara said he was fighting in the corner of the poor but that did mean he ignore the rich in the other corner!

  16. True but we should not forget that Moyo has himself already tried to have President Mugabe kicked out of the tent in 2004 and failed. No doubt Moyo will have hatched three more foolproof plans.
    President Mugabe has so many enemy inside the tent and outside, he knows he is not safe anywhere!

  17. @ Wilbert
    After President Mugabe’s “devil incarnate and a weevil destroying Zanu PF from within” outburst at the late Nathan Shamuyarira’s funeral, himself a former Minister of Information, it Professor Moyo who let it be known that he was going to meet President Mugabe straight after the weekend. When everyone else would be switching their mobile phones and go into hiding, the Professor was chasing the fuming President Mugabe!
    The two reportedly met the following Monday and the following day at the cabinet meeting they were in such friendly terms one would have said they kissed and made love if they had been lovers. Comrade Mutasa, who had spent the weekend, hunting around for the gamatox must have looked as foolish as he was confused!
    No details ever came out of what the President Mugabe and the Professor said or did to each other that Monday but one can imagine. It is no secret that Professor Moyo has played a key role in keeping President Mugabe and Zanu PF in power since the party’s 2000 referendum defeat; the President himself has said so and the Professor has crawled about it at every opportunity.
    It is also no secret that Zanu PF has been rigging elections; Didymus Mutasa has just confirmed that. It follows that Professor Moyo must have reminded the President that he has a lot of dirty on the President and the party which he would happily share with the world if the weevil nonsense was repeated for even one more occasion!
    Professor Moyo has the President by the balls alright and in a vice grip; the latter cannot throw Moyo outside the tent even if he wanted to! Or could it be that President Mugabe has been applying the gamatox all along and now it is he who has the Professor by the balls!
    “Matsotsi haagerani!” so goes the Shona saying. (Two crooks cannot cut each other’s hair!)

  18. @ Wilbert
    After President Mugabe’s “devil incarnate and a weevil destroying Zanu PF from within” outburst at the late Nathan Shamuyarira’s funeral, himself a former Minister of Information, it Professor Moyo who let it be known that he was going to meet President Mugabe straight after the weekend. When everyone else would be switching their mobile phones and go into hiding, the Professor was chasing the fuming President Mugabe!
    The two reportedly met the following Monday and the following day at the cabinet meeting they were in such friendly terms one would have said they kissed and made love if they had been lovers. Comrade Mutasa, who had spent the weekend, hunting around for the gamatox must have looked as foolish as he was confused!
    No details ever came out of what the President Mugabe and the Professor said or did to each other that Monday but one can imagine. It is no secret that Professor Moyo has played a key role in keeping President Mugabe and Zanu PF in power since the party’s 2000 referendum defeat; the President himself has said so and the Professor has crawled about it at every opportunity.
    It is also no secret that Zanu PF has been rigging elections; Didymus Mutasa has just confirmed that. It follows that Professor Moyo must have reminded the President that he has a lot of dirty on the President and the party which he would happily share with the world if the weevil nonsense was repeated for even one more occasion!
    Professor Moyo has the President by the balls alright and in a vice grip; the latter cannot throw Moyo outside the tent even if he wanted to! Or could it be that President Mugabe has been applying the gamatox all along and now it is he who has the Professor by the balls!
    “Matsotsi haagerani!” so goes the Shona saying. (Two crooks cannot cut each other’s hair!)

  19. In Zimbabwe we are not short of brilliant people . The writer of this article is very correct . Mugabe will open a box of pandora if he kicks out Moyo. Mugabe needs Moyo and not the other way round. Everything the Prof. does benefits Mugabe to prolong his stay and toss around the Vice Presidents. The battle for Zimbabwe is now reaching its climax and Mugabe will need great minds to read the end game correctly. Any misinterpretation of the political environment will be a complete disaster for ZANU pf.

  20. @Tino, iqiniso lelo. Ndashaya kuti Mukori arikuedza kutii chaizvo. Gore rino muchadzidza zvakawanda.

  21. That’s our tragedy!! Even so called “learned” limit their sphere of life to Mugabe and ZANU. The issue is whether Zimbabwe needs Moyo, not if Mugabe needs Moyo.The heading is tantamount to declaring Zimbabwe a personal property to Mugabe.Its not Mugabe who needs, or doesn’t need Moyo.It is the people.Unfortunately our so called learned waste their time studying the effects on one person , leaving the effects on the millions of people.Che Guevara once said” I always knew that one day a war will break out between the haves and the have nots.I knew many would face a challenge to choose a side.But for me , I cherished the feelings of being with the poor,fighting for a cause”.
    Lets focus on what affects the greater nation not individuals.People must not take Moyo as a supremo from Mars.He has done absolutely nothing to miss in government.He was only implementing brutal strategies for continued suffering of people.He makes no news, worth to change the people’s lives.Let us not be reduced to Mugabe’s sphere of life.What affects him doesn’t matter to the people unless it changes the economic scenario.And people know its only one thing which matters now with Mugabe.

  22. THE WRITER HAS STOOPED SO LOW TO PUBLICLY DISPLAY HIS IDIOCY BY COMMENTING ON A FALSE STORY. Moyo is still the Minister, you must have gone nuts to believe all the hogwash you came across some of the idiotic websites.

  23. Jonathan Moyo is a crook, don’t take him seriously. If its true kuti adzingwa let him got killed like what was done to Amos Midzi, from there I will believe kuti muface uyu ashamula.

  24. Jonathan Moyo is too hungry for a meal ticket so expect him to beg Matibili to take him back.Even on twitter he still says all things are good in his twisted World of lies,fantacies and delusion.

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