The exiled former ZANU PF Secretary for Science and Education, Jonathan Moyo has offloaded documents he claims are part of Retired General Constantino Chiwenga reasons for the military intervention in November.
Moyo also releases a document he says is part of the minutes of a meeting scheduled to be held between Gen. Chiwenga and former president Robert Mugabe on the 16th November, a day after he, Moyo was raided by soldiers at his property together with his colleague Saviour Kasukuwere.
The military takeover eventually forced Robert Mugabe to resign. Below are Chiwenga’s talking points according to Moyo:
“TALKING POINTS FOR CDF’S MEETING
Politicians to stop reckless utterances against the military which are causing alarm and despondency within the rank and file which may result in anarchy thereby threatening peace and security in the country
The Party to afford every Party member a fair and equal chance of being heard or elected and the whole democratic process to be observed from the cell up and no imposition of candidates.
Cease all purging in the Party and Government and reunite the Party by reinstating all previous victims.
Implement the recommendations of the War Veterans Indaba and reintegrate all war veterans into the mainstream of the Party and Government.
The known counterrevolutionary elements who have foment the current instability in the Party be weeded out both in the Party and Government.
Security of tenure of employment as it relates to the provision of the current Constitution of Zimbabwe.
A clear cut road map for succession in the Party including a […] start and going for a new election in 2018″
There is nothing new or of any substance to what Jonso had said here and yet President Mnangagwa and his Lacoste team know they cannot ignore it. Jonso, Zhuwao and the other G40 members will never get back into power but they will sure as hell make life for the Lacoste thugs as difficult as possible. Jonso and others know so much dirty about Mnangagwa and company and they will be leaking it like a bull elephant on musk! Their message is a simple one; Mnangagwa and company are thugs and here is the evidence – Mnangagwa has such a dirty past and is so incompetent and corrupt there will be plenty of material for Jonso and company to work with.
IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHEN TO KEEP QUIET & WHEN TO TALK YOU ARE AN EDUCATED FOOL.
This is not a secrete document. The generals revealed this to the nation in their address. Just some mere rants from the professor
The sooner we realise as a people that we are stuck with these men and women who gallantly fought the war of liberation the better it will be for us. They are not going anywhere for as long as they live. This notion that they fought to bring about democracy is akin to pie in the sky (just like how Western style democracy itself is pie in the sky when it comes to the African continent). The sooner as a people we stop howling about wanting to see Western style democracy in implementation in Zimbabwe the better it will be for us because it will never happen until death or other such severe calamity claims that crop of warriors who participated in the war. My hope is that by then we would have developed our own style of democracy that suits and works for us. The West lie to us that W. style democracy contains necessary and sufficient conditions for economic prosperity. They tell us foreign investment naturally follows their kind of democracy. As a people we are impoverished as a result of foreign investment which appropriates and parachutes foreign currency out of the country in the form of profits and illegal externalisations. In equal measure misgovernance and downright looting has also contributed. The benefits of foreign investment are short term; jobs and taxes to the fiscus with the long term hurt far exceeding benefits. As a people let us technologically empower ourselves regardless of who is at the helm of the country. When we teach ourselves or steal for ourselves technology and become productive selling more to the world than we buy then and only then will we become prosperous. Ask Japan, China, South Korea, Singapore etc. Let the next Hyundai, Toyota, Mahindra motor vehicle be fully designed and manufactured 100% using Zim technological prowess and be exported everywhere in the world.
Reasonable?……It seems definitions differ. When an armed so called soldier turns his guns to unarmed civilians forcing them to take a political direction that protects his loots someone calls that more reasonable….
The reasons had nothing to do with the country at large .. this was a purely ZANU issue
I think Zimbabweans need to revisit this legacy issue in order to reorient themselves. It is sad to hear people talking about a legacy where there is no written will for the executioner to use for its perpetration. The story of the liberation struggle cannot be a monopoly of those who claim to have been participants without being deliberately passed on to the next generation. A legacy cannot be imposed by force but can only be bequeathed in order for it to be passed on from generation to generation otherwise it becomes “chinu chedu” and ends there. Just a thought !
seems the army guy was more reasonably than the nutty Proffessor
Brilliant. So Chiwenga was worried about the revolution and its legacy