Nomazulu Thata| To verify my facts regarding Nkosana Moyo’s flip-flopping: the world has suddenly discovered that the presidential aspirant and leader of the Agenda of People’s Alliance (APA), Moyo, more than a week ago declared that his party willing, he would be happy to be part of Mnangagwa’s government. Nkosana Moyo said he is ready to serve in President Mnangagwa’s government. What happened later then? Was he invited by his cousin: Mukaranga from Masvingo?
How unfortunate, how disturbing, how misleading is our presidential hopeful Dr. Nkosana Moyo. Is he sure he was going to serve a government that came to power through the back door: the military take-over, the military coup, the putsch? Is he comfortable to have to joined a Zanu PF government, a government full of thugs? Would it be wise if he just abandoned APA and joined Zanu PF, end of story?
He is not alone in this flip-flopping! Some most established opposition parties fell into the trap. President Tsvangirai was airlifted from his sick-bed in South Africa to come and legitimise the military take-over. Gullibly and naively he hurriedly went home to be part of the inauguration of the Second President of the Republic of Zimbabwe. We saw how he hugged newly sworn President Mnangagwa in the hope that all will come to “fruition” on his part, we all know it. Richard Morgan Tsvangirai does not learn from his mistakes at all. We know how he was cheated by Jonathan Moyo, not to field any candidate in Tsholotsho North, only for Jonathan to turn against him after winning the Tsholotsho constituency with a land-slide, joined Zanu PF. We know too how he insulted Tsvangirai, a hand that fed, in 2005 Jonathan Moyo was in the cold when Zanu PF sacked him from government and party because of the Tsholotsho Saga with Mnangagwa, and he badly wanted to reinvent himself by winning the Tsholotsho seat, he did with the help of Tsvangirai.
Again Themba Mliswa did the same in Norton. MDC-T assisted Themba Mliswa to win Norton seat. Themba won the parliamentary seat and then after he showed MDC-T a middle finger. Now press fast forward, November 2017, Zanu PF knowing Tsvangirai’s weaknesses well, they did that to him too AND IT WORKED. Tsvangirai must have been promised “big” for him to leave his sick-bed, he abandoned chemo-therapy treatment going home at the invitation of Zanu PF, after the inauguration his party was left to hang and dry. The rest is open knowledge in the social media. No need to repeat what we already know. Who is telling the truth between Mutsvangwa and MDC-T is neither here nor there.
We the general population had hoped that technocrats, legal experts of the likes of Tendai Biti will come handy and give us ground-breaking insights to the events of November coup, the military take-over of the state and its consequences and precedence it can give to other countries in the region. Tendai Biti, was silent on the
coup, he was hoping he will be invited to the gravy train and “eat” with the rest of them. When he was not invited he vented his disappointment on Voice of America. It’s cold outside government in Zimbabwe. One wonders how he was going to be part of the cabinet without a mandate from the people! The silence of such personalities such a Biti actually legalizes the whole coup processes; it gives legality to a government that came through the back door. The present government of Mnangagwa is illegal. The silence of the well-known legal fraternity gave the international community the impression that the coup was supported by the people and therefore must be given recognition.
Excluding Dr. Alex Magaisa and David Coltart from them all legal experts in Zimbabwe, Alex Magaisa tried in his tweets to explain to us in layman’s language we understand, what the military coup actually means in modern context: the constitution was seriously breached. Infightings in a political party do not in any way mean that the solution has to be military take-over of the government. The military has no mandate to take sides in a political party disputes unless if the military is openly saying they are Zanu PF wing of the government. We are grateful for those legal explanations Magaisa passionately offered on social media if one was following his tweets.
Nkosana Moyo is not alone who expressed his willingness to join Mnangagwa’s government. General Dumiso Dabengwa openly supported the coup take-over. He went live in South African media: he was for the coup, he said. He went further to express his willingness to be part of the government of Mnangagwa. A good question comes in: if he was given a post, or he will be given a post as vice President, on what mandate will he serving the country? General Dabengwa has never won elections since the Millennium in Bulawayo and Mathebeleland. He tried twice both in general elections of 2013 and by-elections of 2015 and they failed dismally and embarrassingly. The constituencies in Bulawayo and Mathebelelands rejected Zapu and Dabengwa long back. Would we be excused if we say he was going to represent himself in that government, because it appears that Mnangagwa government is a government that is packed with appointments of appeasements rather than abilities and capabilities to execute service to the people? As someone from Mathebeleland, General Dabengwa should spare us the pain, he should respect our pain. The Zanu PF congress is coming in a week’s time; he may make it as Vice President in Comrade Mnangagwa’s government.
In Nkosana’s “You Tube” Mnangagwa’s Cabinet; we expected from Nkosana Moyo to hear poignant points that indicate to us that this is the man of the moment. We wanted to hear Nkosana talking about corruption and how absurd and one-sided the new Mnangagwa government deals with it. It would appear that those accused of corruption are G40 victims only. There is NO holistic approach to corruption and its eradication. For Nkosana Moyo to just pick the weakest link from Mathebeleland: Obert Mpofu, leaving all those corrupt ministers in the new government from Mashonalands is wholly unfair and shows how fearful our presidential hopeful is. It is
easy for him to crush the people of Mathebeleland than elsewhere. Start with Obert Mpofu’s life style and end with Mnangagwa’s life style of looting public funds.
We wanted to hear Nkosana explaining to us his sudden turn-around, he changed his mind in joining the government of Mnangagwa because the Zanu PF party is still the same as it was; the system Mugabeism has not collapsed because of the departing of Robert Mugabe, he could not be part of it. We wanted to hear him say he could not be part of the military junta that got into power through the back door. We wanted to hear him say Mr. Ignatius Chombo is not the only one who was corrupt: name and shame all those who are corrupt: where is the 15 billion dollars diamond revenues that rightly belong to the people of Zimbabwe. When the military discovered 8 million dollars in Chombo’s house, how many millions of dollars does Chiwenga, Mnangagwa, Chihuri, Zimondi, and Obert Mpofu: the list is very long, have in their houses today.
Why did we not hear in his “you tube” about the 8 dollars in millions they found in Chombo’s home anymore? Why this selective morality of punishing the party G40 criminals because they lost the Zanu PF infighting? What about the 7 billion dollars that were supposed to be put in Lacoste bank account in China by Chiwenga’s visit to the country before the military coup, but China refused to release the loot to him, instead they wanted to put it into Mugabe’s account of G40?
When we talk about corruption we want all those facts known to the public and not one-sided purging of corrupt G40 elements only. Lacoste is not clean either, it’s just that they call the shots, they are in power. Looting of public funds was done by all of them: Lacoste and G40 in equal measure. Why is Mnangagwa protecting Mugabe in that manner we do not understand? There are deep secrets he is fearful they spill over to the public and we know what we have always been fearing those atrocities happened: known by Mnangagwa and Mugabe: both of which are murderers and thugs in equal measure.
Given his academics and “Mother Theresa” approach to politics, Nkosana would have explained to us that this euphoria and hysteria that engulfed the nation was good and bad: good in the sense that it removed Mugabe from power, but the over-excitement of the nation played in the hands of the military that desperately wanted legitimacy internationally and they got the recognition they wanted. That mood of victory and celebration was quickly taken away from the nation when Mnangagwa started to show his true colours. Now we hear of military abusing the civilians in Kwekwe and elsewhere. The military used the povo in the way they wanted them, they have dropped them, and the means-justified-the-ends-ethics were at play. The military is today brutalizing the civilian population at will. The mood is now military in the sense of the word.
The cabinet is still the same, the difference is that Mugabe is absent: Nkosana Moyo was not invited to the new government of Mnangagwa despite the fact that he had openly indicated his great interest in being part of the new dispensation.
Nkosana Moyo should have explained to us more about the inaugural speech of the president that was wholly meant to please the international community than the peoples of Zimbabwe. “Let bygone be bygones” is not enough to heal the loss of loved ones, wounds of the maimed, petrified and fearful peoples of Zimbabwe who are nursing wounds of uttermost loss and untold brutality of Mnangagwa and the military; murders and brutality whose masterminds was Mnangagwa and the military. Nkosana should have asked such pertinent questions: how the government can promise to compensate white farmers and he does not go further to say how he is going to heal the nation’s wounds of the divided nation, a nation divided politically and ethnically.
Why did President Mnangagwa in his inaugural speech omit it altogether or refused or incapable of saying: “I am sorry” for the atrocities committed in 1980s and their compensation and offer immediate healing processes country-wide. Why did he fail to say sorry for the farm invasions that left thousands killed, maimed raped, livelihood destroyed, why did he not say sorry to Murambatsvina: “operation clean up” to all those who were affected and have not recovered from those painful human rights atrocities? Mnangagwa and the military were the masterminds of the 2008 criminal suppression of Tsvangirai ascendancy to power in 2008. Because we are Africans: our lives and their destruction do not matter at all Mnangagwa’s speech reached out to the international community, no olive branch to the very people he is president of.
But Ambassador and UN-General Secretary Kofi Annan did not disappoint the people of Zimbabwe and the region at all. He is wholly aware of the dangers of military intervention in such fragile countries of Africa. This military intervention has started in Zimbabwe; it will be elsewhere in the very region anytime now. The precedence has been set. If SADC did not react in Zimbabwe’s military take-over, why will they react in any other country in Africa? The military take-over in Zimbabwe was not constitutional, much as we wanted the back of Mugabe, his removal was necessary, but his system is still intact, Mugabeism still lives on: free and fair elections would have changed the regime of Mugabe; it has to be democratic processes that give sustainable political changes and certainly not the military option: the coup, a putsch! This is what Ambassador Kofi Annan is saying!
When I listened to Nkosana Moyo’s “You tube” speaking, personally I was convinced he could make a competent leader of Zimbabwe. He has his economic recovery policies in his fingertips and are convincing enough. He really knows what he is talking about in terms of Zimbabwe’s economic recovery: his passion means he thought through all stages of economic recovery. Nkosana Moyo must remove fear in him. This “mother Theresa and academics will not usher him to winning elections.
The language in politics is crude out there: Zanu PF is evil and barbaric, on the other hand, Nkosana is meek, evidenced with his wanting to join Mnangagwa’s government at this point in time, 8 months before elections he wants to throw away his presidential aspirations, what for, is he not good enough even better than Mnangagwa by far, he is politically clean. Does he doubt himself? His body-language sold him in that video clip: was at pains in answering the question about “pasi nemhandu” this meant he would be criticizing Mnangagwa openly.
Nkosana Moyo lacks charisma just like Mnangagwa, which we can always overlook. Dr. Moyo, fear is not an option! A leader is not fearful. Flip-flopping does not make good leadership. Go out and make rallies without fearing, those guerrilla war-fare campaigns may not work with Zanu PF because Zanu PF knows that trade better. I do not rule you out; my critiques are not to make or break, I am just that tiny cog in the game of politics: you may win these 2018 elections elegantly: success is success at the end of the day!
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Since declaring his candidacy for President, tribal insults against Nkosana Moyo have now stopped since these Shonas discovered he is actually not Ndebele but a Shona.
kkkkkkkkkkk Lol – the excitable die hard tribalists!!
Any change of government driven by the Military is a Coup. It does not matter that a civilian eventually takes over. Even if the people support it – the involvement of the military by definition makes it a Coup. Dress it up whichever way you like, it remains a coup.
As long as the change of government has not come via elections, but through the military, it is a coup brurr. Period!
It is grossly unfortunate if those with brains used them to discredit everything they do not support whether good or bad. Mugabe was not forced to resign he resigned because he was going to be impeached which is a constitutional process. The role of the army was simply to allow citizens to express themselves which Chihuri would previously not allow. In the absence of fear even the Zanu PF membership expressed themselves in the absence of both the army and Munangagwa. They requested that their President resigned or face impeachment. Mugabe tried his old tricks but realised that in the absence of coercion the people did not want him and he saved his legacy by resigning.
Reference to the constitution is a fallacy as those who were deposed were hiding behind the constitution to abuse the citizenry. Being a grown up you would have seen the deterioration in all facets of life but for you its all good as long as the law allows it. The wisdom of law makers is that those who take the oath to uphold the law are upright citizens who would not abuse the same law for their personal gain. I am not sure whether you did not witness evenets that clearly demonstrated that Grace was the defacto President/Prime Minister. If you believe that the law was being observed by the former President then there is something seriously wrong with you. A law that cannot protect citizens but individuals must be scrapped . However I wonder why you still believe that the actions of November was a coup when Mugabe himself refused to call it such and all progressive nations of the world have described it otherwise. New knowledge can be created and perhaps this is the bit you had not come across.
Nksana Moyo shgud learn to work his way up not kungopinda kunge chiro chiri kupinda mu condomn
handei tione majita
Yes, mischievous writing by someone with probably very little to do. Why be tribalistic and talk about ‘Mukaranga from Masvingo’. Please leave Masvingo and its people alone.
What is democracy all about? Is it about people not being wrong? It’s not necessary to ask an idiot to think, I guess.
This Nkosana Moyo is a crook he once deserted the same Zanupf government which he now want to rejoin, to hell with chancers who masquerade as technocrats.
ZanuPF owns Zimbabwe. The people can not and must not allow thugs to rule. VOTERAI PA NEXT ELECTIONS CORRECTLY OR ELSE! We lose again.
The solution is that the elections must be free, fair and credible. Many of the corrupt politicians today will be run-out of town is the truth was told about their past!
“Do you really believe that your personal opinion is more worthy than the masses’ will and judgement?”
The masses in Zimbabwe have been hopeless wrong on many, many occasions and therefore to even suggest it shows you have no clue what you are talking about.
The ideal outcome of the Zanu PF factional war was for the two sides to fight and destroy each other completely. It is most unfortunate that the factional war stopped when the Lacoste faction is still strong enough to regroup and still cause a lot of mischief. Worse still, some people in the eager to see the back of Robert Mugabe have prop up the Lacoste faction by publicly praising the coup. There is no legal justification for the coup, it is illegal and, by extension, so is the Mnangagwa administration.
The weaker the Zanu PF faction emerging from the factional war the easier it would have been for us, the ordinary Zimbabweans, to pressure it into accepting meaningful democratic reforms. As things stand Zanu PF will get a massive good-will vote next year from people who still fail to see that it was not just the removal of the dictator Mugabe that we wanted but the dismantling of the dictatorship itself. So, with the massive good-will vote, it may not be necessary for Zanu PF to blatantly rig the vote and thus get away with the vote rigging.
I can see why the likes of Dr Nkosana Moyo was eager to join Mnangagwa’s administration, his chance of winning next year’s elections are worse now than before the coup.
The prospect of another five years of this corrupt and oppressive Zanu PF rule is making me sick!
Why do you talk about your individual self in plural? You go on to blame some very learned and informed people for supporting the coup. You are even mischievious enough to denigrate the masses for marching in support of the coup. Do you really believe that your personal opinion is more worthy than the masses’ will and judgement?
You even seem more pathetic when you endeavour in some juridictional folly about whether the constitution was followed or not. Was the mother of moden democracy, the French Revolution done following the laws of the land of the time? Was the chimurenga war fought in accordance with the constitution of the day? Do you want to use the constitution to remove someone who practically should oversee the constitution but abuses it at will?
“We” (I mean all who supported the coup, [you in your plurality excluded of course]), are tired of a few very loud doomsayers. To you we say loud and clear, “Vukurai!”.
Mr Writer, the situation on the ground is that an elected government taking power tomorrow will not be able to find clean government officers to occupy government positions. The vast majority of Zimbos are now corrupt. Corruption is very easy to bring in and once in, it is impossible to get rid of unless we adopt the Chinese way of severely disadvantaging anyone who is caught at it. Even then the Chinese are still corrupt.
That being the case we are now in a position where the very corrupt are going round publicly saying they will arrest the not so corrupt, while nobody is capable of arresting them because of their positions.
Shut your eyes and try to imagine Chiwenga arresting Chombo for corruption or Mphofu now having his officers give evidence against Chipanga for corruption. You could not make it up any worse. Mugabe created an anti corruption unit and you wonder why he did that seeing they could not arrest him, Grace, Kasukuwere, Chomo, Jonathan Moyo, etc.
So joining a corrupt government while you are yourself corrupt even after an election seems small fry in the scheme of things in Zim in the next 37 years or so.