Professor Jonathan Moyo has taken up the challenge of making sure Roy Bennett is on Zimbabwe’s national agenda and nothing else. He has called Tsvangirai’s nomination of Bennett treacherous.
“If by dint of fortune the Prime Minister manages to bring pressure to bear and Bennett is sworn-in, King Mzilikazi, Lobengula along with Mbuya Nehanda and Sekuru Kaguvi and other fallen heroes of the Chimurenga (Liberation Struggle) would turn in their graves and inspire surviving comrades of the revolution and their offspring to set this whole country on fire,” the sabre-rattling Zanu-PF propagandist warned.
As far as the Professor is concerned Bennett “who fought and massacred our liberation forces”. Being a white Rhodesian, Bennett would have fought on Ian Smith’s side during the war of independence. Almost every able bodied white Rhodesian did; including the many whites who, after independence, have served in Mugabe’s government, including at ministerial level.
Mugabe got international praise for his willingness to let bygone be bygones and policies promoting racial harmony. Mugabe has shown he would work with anybody even those whites whose racial credentials are dubious to say the least. Mugabe has managed very close ties with people like Tiny Rowland and other Corporate big shots, for example, who continuing to do business with the white regime in violation of the imposed international sanctions. For years Tiny Rowland was one of the greatest financial backers of Mugabe and Zanu PF – say no more!
When Mugabe’s political popularity started to wane because his regime was incompetent and corrupt he has always rummaged around for scapegoat. He has found blaming the whites the easiest one of all – the whites had a history of being oppressive and they blamed him for ending their domination and exploitation of the blacks; plenty of raw data to work on.
In 2000, with the Zimbabwe economy in trouble and his political power under threat; Mugabe picked on the white farmers. He needed their farms to plicate with wasteful loyalists to buy their continued support. The move destroyed the country’s agricultural sector and thus accelerated the economic melt down. He knew this would happen and had a ready made explanation for it “he was being punished by the West for taking land off the white!” Of course that is nonsense, but that is beside the point. The point, as far as he is concerned, was the story was plausible and that was all that mattered.
From 2000 onward Zimbabwe’s economy dropped like a stone with heart breaking consequences to the people. Last year Mugabe had one of the most blatant violent elections in human history and through it all Mugabe has somehow managed to play his race card and get away with it.
So when Mugabe started to focus on Roy Bennett it was clear the dictator wanted to take the heat off failed GNU and his role in that. Tsvangirai should have seen this one coming but sadly he did not.
In his recent article in the Gideon Gono owned paper the Financial Gazette Professor Moyo compare appointing Roy Bennett to “having a former NAZI infantryman serving as a deputy Minister of Justice in Israel today”.
It is not at all surprised that Professor Moyo and Minister Chinamasa- no doubt with the tacit approval of Mugabe himself - “instigated the arrest of Bennett last week Wednesday”, The Zimbabwe Times suggested. Mugabe’s sycophants and propagandists will do their best to steer up racial hate until the whole country can talk of nothing else.
Of course MDC had many good reasons to break away from the GNU but the only reason Mugabe will want everyone to talk about is that he refused to swear in Roy Bennett because is of the latter’s white racist threats.
Tsvangirai and MDC bungled this one and now the whole nation will pay dearly for it! As one would say in Shona; “Uku ndiko kunonzi kurumwa nechokuchera!”
Within hours The Zimbabwe Times website has had pages of insulting comments against Professor Moyo! Whilst Zimbabweans have over indulged themselves finding the most insulting words and venting their outrage at Moyo; the fact of the matter is they have forgotten about the GNU and all the economic and political problems Zimbabwe is facing. And that is exactly what Mugabe wanted!
Some Zimbabweans have asked for Professor Moyo to resign his parliamentary seat now that he is a Zanu PF MP and not an independent member. Even if Moyo was to lose the seat in a by-election Mugabe will have a cushy job for him. Patrick Chinamasa lost in last year’s parliamentary elections and Mugabe still appointed him Minister.
Like it or not Professor Jonathan Moyo is worth more than his own weight in gold to Mugabe.
Mugabe and Professor Moyo have not only outwitted Tsvangirai but us too. We must snap out of this insulting Moyo competition and think of ways we can bring about regime change in Zimbabwe, for example!
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Mutambara says he will meet Tsvangirai and Mugabe ahead of the SADC planned meeting on Thursday 29 October with the view of ending the present political crisis. He says he has told Mugabe "to shape up or ship out". Well what else is there to say or do, my fellow Zimbabweans!
For eight months this country has fallen under the illusion that it is going somewhere when if fact it was not. For eight months Tsvangirai has refused to see the reality that the country was sinking under the dead weight of a ruthless dictatorship there to serve its own selfish interest a handful of the ruling elite at the expense of the the millions.
Tsvangirai is certainly one of the slowest and most incompetent politicians Zimbabwe has ever seen. Still even he finally saw the light. The nation is now waiting for Tsvangirai to do the honourable thing – fall on his own sword, jump off or he will be pushed off.
As for the self promoting clown Arthur Mutambara; he has told Mugabe to shape up or ship out and the latter has ignored him. We should do the same; we have a nation to rebuild and no time to waste listening to the howling of a stray dog!
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