By Patrick Guramatunhu| I am very disappoint to note that Professor Jonathan Moyo, Mugabe’s former Minister cum principle propagandist and strategist, has not used his forced sabbatical to redeem himself. He still considers himself and his boss, Zimbabwe’s former Zanu PF dictator, as the centre of every Zimbabwean’s universe. And the November 2017 military as a catastrophe that rob us of that centre and left us lost of direction and purpose.

“Finger-pointing aside, the political paralysis & rot in ZanuPF & the MDCs is a direct result of the 2017 military coup, which overthrew the 2013 Constitution. Failure by Zimbabweans, most who supported the coup, to come to terms with this will push Zim deeper into the dark abyss!” Twittered Professor Moyo, presumably, from fox-hole in exile in Kenya.

There are eight things I would like to say to you, Professor Moyo:

1. Yes, Zimbabwe is sinking deeper and deeper into the dark abyss but not because Zimbabweans have failed to “come to terms”, whatever that is supposed to mean, with the November 2017 military coup. Zimbabwe has been on this disastrous trajectory ever since the country attain her independence and Mugabe rigged the first elections and imposed a de facto one-party dictatorship at the end of the 1983 to 1987 Gukurahundi massacre. It is Zimbabwe’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections that is root cause of the country’s demise.

2. Decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption destroyed the country’s economy causing social unrest in society including within Zanu PF itself. The shrinking national cake left Zanu PF leaders fighting amongst themselves like hungry hyena. Mai Mujuru and her supporters were booted out of the party in 2014. The remaining faction divided into the G40 faction led by Grace Mugabe and yourself, Professor, and Lacoste faction led by Mnangagwa. The fighting was fierce and the latter prevailed and hence the reason you are in exile. 

3. The ordinary people had no say in the November 2017 military coup other than wanting the demise one faction as a desirable part in the demise of the dictatorship. To choose between G40 and Lacoste is a false choice; it is comparable to a mouse choosing a black mamba or cobra.

4. There is talk of the Lacoste faction has already divide fuelled by worsening economic meltdown. There will be no meaningful economic recovery as long as Zimbabwe remains a Banana Republic; a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs. 

5. The de facto one party dictatorship has stifled all meaningful democratic discourse forcing competent and quality individuals out of politics leaving the space for corrupt and incompetent individuals. There are no quality leaders in Zanu PF and the opposition and little wonder there is political paralysis. 

6. The only time Zimbabwe had the golden opportunity to dismantle the Zanu PF dictatorships was during the 2008 to 2013 GNU. Sadly, Mugabe bribed Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC fiends with the trappings of high office and, with their snouts in the feeding trough, the forgot about the reforms. You, Professor Moyo, accompanied Patrick Chinamasa when he announced that Zanu PF would not postpone the July 2013 elections because it was not the party’s fault that no meaningful reforms were implement. It was Zanu PF’s victory lap! 

7. So Zimbabwe’s march into the abyss has been a relentless starting back in 1980. It is proving very difficult to implement the democratic reforms and dismantle the dictatorship because the dictatorship is deep rooted and also because we are stuck with a corrupt and incompetent opposition. 

8. If Zimbabwe ever get through this hell then the nation must marshal all the Zanu PF leaders and the cronies, wherever they are, and hold them to account for having dragged the nation into this hell-on-earth. The nations owes its to millions who have suffered and died at the hands of these Zanu PF thugs and owe it to themselves to make sure this never ever happen again.