Zanu-PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo (76) has reportedly died.
Zanu and Zapu cadres made a monumental contribution in the liberation of Zimbabwe, that is a historic fact that no one will dispute or deny. However what is also a historic fact, which Zanu PF has all but air brushed out of the country’s history, is that the post-independence Zanu PF leaders have ridden roughshod over the people, denying them their freedoms and rights.
Simon Khaya Moyo played his part in the liberation struggle and in independent Zimbabwe. Of course, he was aware that Zimbabwe was a de facto one-party state, played his part in creating and sustaining it and got his share of the spoils of power.
“Zanu PF ichatonga kuzvika madhongi amera nyanga!” (Zanu PF will rule until donkeys have horns!) he once boasted. He knew Zanu PF was rigging elections.
The nation fought a bitter liberation one to secure “One man, one vote!” Sadly this was never ever honoured. Zanu PF has rigged elections and, to this day, insist the elections are free, fair and credible.
The principle reason Zimbabwe is in this economic and political mess is the country’s failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. To escape out of this mess we must now fight to implement democratic reforms to ensure free and fair elections - the fight we thought we had got behind us in 1980.
It is a great tragedy and an indictment in our failure to govern ourselves that yesterday’s liberators have become today’s oppressors. Of course, Zanu PF thugs risked life and limb to end white colonial oppression but only to become the next oppressors.
Can Simon Khaya Moyo or anyone of his fellow Zanu PF thugs, national heroes? All those who played a part in post independence oppression of the masses cannot and will never ever be heroes. Never ever! He started a hero but spend the last 41 years as an oppressor per excellence.
No doubt Mnangagwa and the rest in Zanu PF will declare Khaya-Moyo a national hero but that is to be expected. Mnangagwa can hardly call Khaya Moyo a thug when he has shed even more innocent blood himself!
Whilst a repentant sinner can be forgiven and even become a saint; one is reminded of the robber on the cross, on the right hand side of Jesus. It will be nonsensical to plead for sainthood for the robber on Jesus’ left hand, who was wicked to his last breath, on the grounds he helped some old lady cross the street in his youth; especially when it was for the purpose of robbing her!
Simon Khaya Moyo cannot be a national hero not after 41 years of Zanu PF corrupt and tyrannical rule; 41 years of Zanu PF wickedness! Whether his soul rests in peace, RIP, it is for the Lord to decide and not mortals!
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Chamisa had earlier taken to microblogging site Twitter to declare his readiness to govern and bring total change to the long suffering Zimbabweans.
"Total change: We must turn things around. We just don't have the luxury to be general.
"We can't just be ordinary. To whom much is given much is expected. Good to go and ready. I will not disappoint," he tweeted.
After 22 years, 5 of which in the GNU, MDC has failed to bring about even one token change. And now we are being promised “total change” because Chamisa is “good to go and ready”! One has to ask want the hell he has been doing these last 22 years?
Both MDC and Zanu PF are taking the people for complete fools, asking the people to chase a mirage. Zanu PF has promised mass prosperity, “Gutsa ruzhinji!” as Mugabe never used to tire of saying it in the 1980s. Mnangagwa has taken this up and his is “Vision 2030; upper middle income!” Zimbabwe has been in economic decline ever since independence and the decline has accelerated as corruption and mismanagement have grown and spread unchecked. All the economic indicators show the country is in serious trouble, of economic bust, and yet the leaders insist there is economic boom!
Tsvangirai has promised change ever since the launch of MDC and now Chamisa has taken over and is promising “total change”. Zanu PF is set to rig these 2023 elections and by participating MDC is giving Zanu PF legitimacy; there will be no change much less total change!
@ B Visa
“It was Jonathan Moyo who once said Zanu pf will never reform itself out of power, and so if by dialogue you mean another GNU and joining the gravy train; just go ahead, but if you want electoral reforms you should take a path more aggressive than sloganeering on Twitter, and that will naturally come with spending your first night in prison; something you have expertly dodged for 22 years.
If you want to be regarded as Zimbabwe’s own HHH or Mandela you should be prepared to do the time, taking pictures with HHH or wearing Mandela shirts alone just won’t cut it.”
MDC leaders had the golden opportunity to implement the democratic reforms during the 2008 to 2013 GNU and end the Zanu PF dictatorship. They did not implement even one reform in five years because they were busy enjoying the gravy train good life and thought MDC had so much public support the Zanu PF vote rigging will never ever overhaul their victory. Never!
Zanu PF would have been forced to post pone the 2013 elections if MDC leaders had heeded the SADC leaders’ advice not to participate in the 2013 elections without reforms. Zanu PF has relied on the opposition participating in these flawed elections in droves for legitimacy.
Mnangagwa was created POLAD to reward those opposition leaders who participated in the 2018 elections and thus making sure they do so again in 2023.
Chamisa did not join POLAD because he wanted to be treated as special apart from the other opposition leaders. He flatters himself in saying his refusal to public endorse Mnangagwa as the winner has deprive the latter legitimacy - it was the participation in the election that gave Mnangagwa legitimacy and not what Chamisa said afterward in much the same way Donald Trump’s refusal to accept defeat did not deprive President Joe Biden legitimacy!
Abednico Mweembe Mweembe
You still don't get it! No one has said MDC does not have public support, it does. But the party has never won power because Zanu PF rigs elections and as long as nothing is done to stop Zanu rigging elections Zanu PF will remain in power!
@ Bionic Vusa
“The problem is we already tried that in 2008-2013, and nothing was achieved besides all these guys getting fat, chasing women and joining Zanu pf in looting and singing praises to an old and tired Mugabe. Some of us haven’t forgotten how impressed Biti, Chamisa and Tsvangirai were with Mugabe’s interlect and “work ethic”, and all the while Zanu pf was planning for the 2013 election rout.”
There is no denying that MDC leaders sold out during the GNU but that does not mean there is no one else who would have kept their eyes on the ball and implemented the democratic reforms. The very fact that you did notice that MDC leaders slept on the job makes you a prime candidate to be appointed in this GNU mark 2!
Implementing the reforms is not rocket science for Pete’s sake and I can get 1 000 candidates who will get the reforms implemented and deliver free and fair elections!
THE economy is on a growth trajectory with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) projected to grow by 7,8 percent in 2021, attributed to a favourable rainfall season, higher international mineral commodity prices and a stable macro-economic environment.
We are witnessing strong performance in the external sector driven by exports and remittances.
The country exported goods worth US$2,2 billion during the first half of 2021 compared to US$1,9 billion exported in 2020 same period.
The strong external sector performance, coupled with a healthy fiscal position, as well as the relatively stable exchange rate and inflation, are evidence of the existence of strong macro-economic fundamentals.
Zimbabwe has thrown overboard the teachers, nurses, millions of ordinary people and all the low grade civil servants in a vain effort to stop inflation soaring to the nauseating heights of 2008 era; it has not reached the same heights but is creeping up slowly but surely.
The country has lost so many teachers, nurses, engineers and many, many other skilled workers; its education service has all but completely collapse and so it is incapable of skilled workers; etc. Zimbabwe is going nowhere, the country is doomed. As long as the country remains a pariah state governed by corrupt and vote rigging thugs things are set to get worse not better!
“Zimbabwe's economic fundamentals are strong!” Yeah right! Professor Mthuli Ncube, you are now speaking like a Zanu PF politician - always lying through and through and have all but forgot even basic economics!
There is evidence to show that some of these church leaders notably Nehemiah Mutendi have benefited from Zanu PF corruption and has have an invested interest in helping Zanu PF keep corruption off the national agenda at all cost.
Sanctions are not the root cause of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown, corruption and mismanagement are and there is a mountain of evidence to prove this. The very fact that Zanu PF has managed to push through the false narrative blaming sanctions goes to show just how weak and feeble the country's opposition really is; they dithering and indecisiveness on the subject has only helped give the sanctions lie legs to run.
Sanctions have helped to focus the minds on Zanu PF's record of human rights abuse notably failure to hold free and fair elections. For this reason, sanctions must stay and, better still, extended to include key supporters of the regime like Professor Mthuli Ncube and the country's sell-out opposition leaders.
Here we go again Chamisa and company were asked to bring about democratic change and in 22 years, 5 in the GNU, have failed to deliver even one token change and we are now being promised "total change!"
MDC has become more and more like Zanu PF in taking the people for fools.
Zanu PF is renowned for promising mass prosperity, "Gutsa ruzhinji!" as Mugabe never tire of repeating it in the 1980s. Mnangagwa has talked of Zimbabwe becoming a "upper middle income nation by 2030, Vision 2030!" The truth is Zimbabwe's economy has been in decline since independence and today 49% of our people live in abject poverty because of decades of gross mismanagement and rampant corruption.
MDC leaders have not only failed to implement even one token reform to end the Zanu PF dictatorship but worse still they insistence in participating in flawed elections is giving vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy and perpetuating the dictatorship.
MDC's total change is as much a mirage as Zanu PF's mass prosperity! The people of Zimbabwe must now wake up to the reality the two are now working together to stay in power.
@ Mindlo Mandla
“Was Khaya Moyo in power for 41 years?”
True, he was not in power for 41 years but by the time he joined Zanu PF following the Zanu PF and PF Zapu Unity Accord he knew the monster he was joining and has since played his part in what the regime has done. Why did he remain in government if he objected to what the regime was doing? He did have his share of the spoils of power!
Zanu PF misrule is not a victimless event, the regime has riden roughshod over the ordinary Zimbabweans denying them their freedoms and rights. The country is in total economic meltdown millions of Zimbabweans are living in abject poverty denied of their self respect, hope and human dignity because Zanu PF ruling elite creamed off the nation's wealth to feed their insatiable greed. Over 35 000 people have lost their lives since independence to Zanu PF political machination.
To declare any of these Zanu PF thugs, liberators turned oppressors, national heroes is an abomination and a betrayal of all the Zimbabweans whose lives have been turned into hell-on-earth!
Of course, it is nonsensical that Zimbabwe has had more declared national heroes in the last 41 years, the very time when the nation has seen some of the worst human suffering. Where were all these heroes if not the ones committing the looting and murders!
@ Mindlo Mandla
“Was Khaya Moyo in power for 41 years?”
True, he was not in power for 41 years but by the time he joined Zanu PF following the Zanu PF and PF Zapu Unity Accord he knew the monster he was joining and has since played his part in what the regime has done. Why did he remain in government if he objected to what the regime was doing? He did have his share of the spoils of power!
Zanu PF misrule is not a victimless event, the regime has riden roughshod over the ordinary Zimbabweans denying them their freedoms and rights. The country is in total economic meltdown millions of Zimbabweans are living in abject poverty denied of their self respect, hope and human dignity because Zanu PF ruling elite creamed off the nation's wealth to feed their insatiable greed. Over 35 000 people have lost their lives since independence to Zanu PF political machination.
To declare any of these Zanu PF thugs, liberators turned oppressors, national heroes is an abomination and a betrayal of all the Zimbabweans whose lives have been turned into hell-on-earth!
Of course, it is nonsensical that Zimbabwe has had more declared national heroes in the last 41 years, the very time when the nation has seen some of the worst human suffering. Where were all these heroes if not the ones committing the looting and murders!
History and current events show that for all they posturing about freedom, justice and the common good; Zanu PF leaders fought in the liberation war for absolute power for themselves and did not care about the ordinary people. They pretended to subscribe to the notion of one man one vote but have never allowed the people to have a meaningful vote for fear the people would reject them.
There is nothing ironic about Zimbabwe being worse off today, politically, economically and socially, than it was under white colonial rule and yet has generated more national heroes in 40 years than such countries as the UK have generated in 400 years! The looters and murderous tyrants are declaring each other heroes and God knows we have looters and murderers galore!
It is right and proper that these Zanu PF thugs must be told in no uncertain terms that they are corrupt, incompetent and vote rigging thugs who have brought heartbreaking suffering and deaths to this nation. They are not heroes and history will remember them for whom they really are - corrupt and murderous thugs!
The ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has heaped up his calls for violence against non governmental organisations working in rural communities, to getting them prosecuted for their work.
Mnangagwa’s statements follow his previous demands that NGO workers must receive violence once spotted in the rural communities.
Unless we implement the democratic reforms to free the Police and other state institution to carry out their duties of maintain law and order without fear or favour the Police will continue to show their partisan bias in carrying out the duties. It is normal for the Police to do nothing to stop Zanu PF instigated acts of violence, for example, and this has only encouraged Zanu PF operative to act with impunity. Of course, the people have very right to fear Zanu PF operatives, especially in the rural areas when the people have been turned into medieval serfs beholden to the Zanu PF landlords.
The idea there can be free, fair and credible elections without first implementing the democratic reforms is just a nonsense.
MDC leaders sold-out and failed to implement even one token reform during the GNU and to cover for their betrayal they have been insisting on holding elections with no reforms. They have offered “winning in rigged elections (wire)” strategies, variations on the central theme mobilising opposition vote to overwhelm the Zanu PF vote rigging juggernaut. Just another idiotic idea given Zanu PF’s vote rigging includes turning the rural voters into serfs, denying 3 million plus diaspora vote, etc.
By participating in flawed elections MDC are giving vote rigging Zanu PF legitimacy. This insanity must be stopped!
Zanu PF leaders and their acolytes know that sanctions are not the root cause of the country's economic meltdown, they are promoting this narrative for propaganda purposes and, it is clear, they are leaving no stone unturned to achieve their objective.
Mashudu Netsianda ZANU-PF Politburo member and liberation stalwart Simon Khaya Moyo has been declared a national hero.
Khaya Moyo (76) succumbed to cancer on Sunday at Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo where he was admitted.
The real irony here is that Zimbabwe has had more national heroes in the last 40 years than even bigger population nations like the UK has had in 400 years! What is even more astonishing is the country has gone through hell in these 40 years and is stuck in this hell-on-earth. Where were the nation’s many heroes? Why did they allow this to happen in all these decades, you might well ask?
They were there leading from the front in committing the acts of looting, the gross mismanagement and the cold blooded murders! And, how can I forget, each time one of them should die, declaring him/her national hero/heroine and praising them to the high heavens.
To look at the mess Zimbabwe is in, clearly the nation has no heroes only corrupt, murderous and vote rigging thugs masquerading as heroes!
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