MUGABE WELCOMES MOYO BACK INTO ZANUPF: THE TWO TOGATHER CAN ONLY MEAN A GRIM FUTURE FOR ZIMBABWEANS!

What Prof Moyo pull-off in 2000 for Mugabe and Zanu PF was special, no one else in Zanu PF would have done that. Mugabe, of all people, knows that. And it is for that reason that Prof Moyo was welcomed back by Zanu PF.

Moyo must have considered the option of joining MDC when he was kicked out of Zanu PF in 2005, particularly following the humiliating way Mugabe treated him. According to Mugabe, Moyo had cried, begging him for mercy. “Ezinyembezi sivili!” (Cried, tears!) the dictator claimed. Of course Tsvangirai would have welcomed him with open arms.

MDC did not have a candidate in Professor Moyo’s constituency during last year’s election. MDC claims this was deliberate to give the Professor a clear run. The Professor did win the seat but claim the move nearly costed him the seat because most of the votes that would have gone to MDC-T went to his main challenger instead.

Professor Moyo talked much about the “third way” and Dr Simba Makoni before the later launched “Dawn/Mavambo”. But when the project (it was not a political party because some of its key supporters still retained their Zanu PF membership) fall flat on its face that left Moyo with two choices rejoin Zanu PF or join MDC. In fact I do not believe the Professor ever agonised over that.

After Tsvangirai signed the GPA giving Mugabe all the dictatorial powers Professor Moyo had no choice but to swallow his pride and beg Mugabe and rejoin Zanu PF. Moyo is after political power and influence and one does not have to be particularly clever to see Mugabe had all the power and Tsvangirai had none. Professor Moyo has called MDC leaders “blithering idiots!” which, like it or not, is completely off the mark!

Tsvangirai signed the GPA and joined Mugabe to form GNU against all the advice from within Zimbabwe and outside. For the last six months Mugabe did not need Professor Moyo, he had Tsvangirai; selling the GNU as an irreversible democratic change- even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary! It was Tsvangirai and other MDC leaders like Tendai Biti’s pompous arrogance, as if they knew something that the rest of us, ordinary mortals, could never even begin to comprehend!

Ever since the humiliating dismissal of MDC by SADC Head of State; they did not even grant Tsvangirai the courtesy to put his case why he was unhappy with the power sharing arrangements with Mugabe. Just as well Tsvangirai and others in MDC are “blithering idiots” anyone else would hang their heads in shame after all the humble pie Mugabe has made them eat!

For the last few weeks Mugabe has scored one political victory after another. SADC endorsed his position and dismissed Tsvangirai’s weaning with total contempt. He had his moment of glory at the UN; after the sham 27 June 2008 elections none of the Western leader thought they would ever have to listen to his rumbling nonsense. It gave Mugabe unparalleled pleasure to defy them once again. The USAID has just given US$ 20 million to support Zimbabwe’s farmers. Guess what, he and his cronies will be the main beneficiaries, they now constitute 90% of Zimbabwe’s farmers thanks to his aggressive land programme.

All the hullaballo nonsense about Nestle stopping buying milk from Gushungo Dairy Estate is nothing but hot air. Every Zimbabwean company that uses raw agricultural materials is buying them from a farm owned by Mugabe, his wife or his cronies. The later own 90% of Zimbabwe’s farms; that is a fact! Come 5 October, Nestle will be buying Gushungo Dairy milk be it through a third party – Dairy Marketing Board. So what was all the fuss about!

Any one who thinks Professor Moyo has gone past ‘best-by date’ is wrong. He is still capable of a lot of mischief and that is way a ruthless dictator like Mugabe wants a mischievous man like him his side. And together the future looks grim for all Zimbabweans!