1/24 Words alone can't convey the profound pain & crushing feeling arising from the barbaric #ZanuPFBomb in which precious lives were lost & scores injured in Bulawayo. May God bless the victims & favour their families & loved ones as they come to terms with the tragic atrocity! pic.twitter.com/bFqRsRn3Jg
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
2/24 Given the 15 Nov 2017 military coup dubbed "Operation Restore Legacy", & that General Chiwenga, who led the coup, says the operation is running till July 30 poll, it's mandatory for #Sadc & #AU to investigate the #ZanuPFBomb; as #FBI is doing with grenade attack in Ethiopia! pic.twitter.com/HcvJwIB8CS
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
3/24 It would be irrational, irresponsible & tragic for #Sadc, #AU & #UN to isolate the #ZanuPFBomb from the 15 Nov military coup or to treat it as a local matter for internal investigation. Claims that the Nov coup was non violent are oxymoronic. Coups are by definition violent!
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
4/24 Experience around the world has shown that coups beget coups. Unless when they're cured by pivotal regional intervention, as happens in West Africa through #ECOWAS, coups in Africa generate a self-propelling spiral of violence, which creates an underlying culture of fear!
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
5/24 Since 15 Nov, #Zim has remained in a coup mode. ZanuPF has used the threat of military violence as an axe hanging over the nation. Zimbabweans know of deaths, injuries, torture, internal & external displacement of people, property destruction & looting but no accountability! pic.twitter.com/YMNtIi9wyE
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
5/24 Since 15 Nov, #Zim has remained in a coup mode. ZanuPF has used the threat of military violence as an axe hanging over the nation. Zimbabweans know of deaths, injuries, torture, internal & external displacement of people, property destruction & looting but no accountability! pic.twitter.com/YMNtIi9wyE
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
6/24 An untold & deadly footnote to the 15 Nov coup is that soldiers randomly & illegally confiscated weapons & ammunition from other security agents or agencies of State; i.e; the CIO & ZRP whose armoury was emptied. The problem is that some 40% of this remains unaccounted for!
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
7/24 The possibility of criminal or terrorist use of weapons & ammunition randomly & illegally confiscated by soldiers in the 15 Nov coup, poses a clear & present danger in Zimbabwe & the Sadc region. The tacit approval of the 2017 coup by #Sadc & #AU has exacerbated that danger!
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
8/24 While it would be prejudicial & irresponsible to draw any conclusions about what happened & who was responsible for the #ZanuPFBomb, outside the findings of an internationally credible investigation involving #Sadc & #AU, some facts around the explosion invite questions!
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
9/24 *Why was ZRP conspicuous by its absence?
*Will all weapons confiscated in the coup be recovered?
*Will VIPs who behaved like they knew something was about to happen be arrested?
*Any links re past reports of grenade at Chiwenga's house & fatal shootings at Mnangagwa's house?— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
10/24 Since Nov coup Govt, Army & ZanuPF officials have openly threatened military violence, if ZanuPF loses July poll, with no legal penalties. And 5,000 plain clothed soldiers are embedded in polling station communities, with voters rolls to intimidate villagers to vote ZanuPF! pic.twitter.com/efEXo56uSo
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
11/24 The bomb tragedy smacks of an inside job, over "internally unresolved leadership contestation". Charamba who speaks more for Chiwenga than for Mnangagwa, said as much; stating that the target was more the electoral process than Mnangagwa who apparently wanted a poll delay! pic.twitter.com/2KgQYef5j0
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
12/24 Two odd behaviors point to the view that Mnangagwa wanted a poll delay; fearing defeat on 30 July: (a) his rush to rule out a state of emergency or election postponement when nobody had asked for either; & (b) his freudian slip that elections are in 6 months on 31 December! pic.twitter.com/o1y5VkJJWm
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
13/24 Mnangagwa's delayed gazetting of Chiwenga's duties till two weeks ago & Chiwenga's refusal to vacate CDF's office for PV Sibanda are bad signs. After the coup, prospects of resolving internal leadership contestation are between slim & none; as the gun now dictates politics!
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
14/24 The #ZanuPFBomb is a tragic reminder that the coup govt can't be trusted to oversee free, fair & credible elections. The coup is still in progress; dictated by the violence & impunity that haved dogged Zimbabwe since 1980 & now posing an existential threat to the country!
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
15/24 Ideologically, since Zimbabwe faces an existential threat; with a self-indulgent military clique seeking to capture the Republic using tanks, bullets, grenades & bombs to justify that capture, the people should democratically rise up & assert their sovereignty at the polls!
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
16/24 Led by Chiwenga & Mnangagwa, the military coup has been long coming; first with barbaric March 2007 bashing of the late Tsvangirai; 2008 poll coup; 2011 assassination of Solomon Mujuru; 2014 expulsion of Joice Mujuru; 2015 kidnap & murder of Itai Dzamara & 15 Nov 2017 coup!
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
17/24 Victims of the coup from 2007 have been the people, across political & factional divides. This reality has made them to converge & assert their sovereignty. Since 1980, sovereignty has been asserted by the clique behind the coup in the name of ZanuPF, embedded in the State! pic.twitter.com/IOMh1ynEcM
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
18/24 Conventional wisdom holds that there are 5 goals of development: economic growth, equity, democracy, stability & sovereignty. The first four are impossible to attain without the fifth as an expression not of a clique but of the people. The coup cabal has corrupted all five!
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
19/24 It's a falsfication of history to stage a coup & run an election campaign to "Restore Legacy"; nearly 40 years after Independence. What & whose legacy? The DNA of the coup cabal is that violence dictates politics: one must fit "their ZanuPF" to live & if not; you must die! pic.twitter.com/TPfIFRwNbS
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
20/24 With about 40 years of Uhuru; 64% of the electorate aged between 18 & 49 years; it cant be right for Mnangagwa who's been in politics for 60 years; Chief Architect & Enforcer of the First Republic for 38 years to even offer himself to lead the Second Republic. It's a shame! pic.twitter.com/KYi8ug7wOt
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
21/24 In 1994 I had a strategy-changing chat in Nairobi with Ibbo Mandaza. I was frustrated the one-party state debate was won in books & lost in politics. ZanuPF opted for de facto over de jure one party rule. One needed a "Yeltsin" to reform it from within. Still I was wrong!
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
22/24 I knew in 1994 from the one party state debate that ZanuPF could not be reformed from outside its ranks. I've learnt the hard way that it can't be reformed from within, either. The DNA of ZanuPF stockholders is violence. For example, ED's gukurahundi was a planned genocide! pic.twitter.com/0tR1FV8GFj
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
23/24 Because the violence-based ZanuPF is now led by Mnangagwa who's been in politics for 60 years; with Chiwenga–the coup leader & three of his Army Commanders now in cabinet & politburo, it means AK47s & grenades are ruling the roost. The coup cabal has no popular support! pic.twitter.com/LHoQp9K1wY
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018
24/24 So, #Zim can only break from the 1980-2018 cycle of violence of the First Republic by rejecting Mnangagwa, the architect of that violence for 38 years. The Second Republic needs a fresh start with a new generational leader: #NelsonChamisa!#HandeyiKwekwe #KwekweHimJuly30 pic.twitter.com/sEWRn1vtss
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) June 26, 2018