Prof Jonathan Moyo

21 Aug, 14 tweets, 10 min read

1/14 Once again Mnangagwa is in Bulawayo today, with his security boys Owen "Machete" Mudha Ncube & Kazembe Kazembe, in another Virginia Mabiza facilitated abuse of the @NPRCZim & Matabeleland traditional chiefs to cleanse himself of #gukurahundi blood!

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2/14 Following the publication of his biography, littered with lies by Eddie Cross that he only played a peripheral role in the #gukurahundi genocide, Mnangagwa hopes the Cross book will whitewash his murderous gukurahundi past; before the @NPRCZim comes to an end in 23 months!

3/14 It's a cruel lie & a deepening of his genocidal complicity in gukurahundi atrocities to say, as does Eddie Cross in a book which been taken off the shelves in Zim for security reasons, that Mnangagwa played a minor role in the framing & execution of the gukurahundi genocide!

4/14 Since gukurahundi is neither openly nor seriously discussed in Zimbabwe; many are not aware that the #gukurahundi atrocities were classified as a GENOCIDE by @genocide_watch in 2010. If not minor, what was Mnangagwa's role in the gukurahundi GENOCIDE?
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5/14 While there are now many source materials on #gukurahundi genocidal roles roles played by Mnangagwa & all the others, a usefully comprehensive & detailed reference is @stu_doran's 842-page book, KINGDOM, POWER GLORY: Mugabe, Zanu & Supremacy 1960 - 1987, published in 2017!

6/14 On p. 440 @stu_doran has this shocker:
"...They (Ndebeles) think they have the divine right to rule the country and resent being ruled by a predominantly Shona party; they say only Ndebele should rule Ndebele..." Mugabe, Dec 82

This was the GENOCIDAL backdrop for 5 Brigade!

7/14 As revealed by @stu_doran in his 2017 book & corroborated by others, the Zanu Central Committee made a genocidal resolution in Dec 1982 "TO MASSACRE THE NDEBELES". The day after Mnangagwa & others went to Byo to pave way for deployment of 5 Brigade in Tsholotsho in Jan 1983!

8/14 People should read @stu_doran's meticulously detailed & well documented 842-page book on their own. It's a must read. Notably as revealed on pp. 332-33, when it came to gukurahundi, as CIO minister & chair of JOC Mnangagwa who carried an AK47, defined himself as a "SOLDIER"!

9/14 Unknown to traditional & community leaders meeting him in Bulawayo today, is that it is Mnangagwa the self declared soldier, CIO minister & JOC chair who personally gave the order to arrest & assassinate Joshua Nkomo in 1983; who survived by escaping to London via Botswana!

10/14 Although he addressed press conferences & public meetings in the #gukurahundi years as a soldier; as per the new line in his biography by Eddie Cross, Mnangagwa later claimed he did not know the number of people he & his fellow soldiers murdered in the gukurahundi genocide!

11/14 Kevin Woods, who led CIO in MatNorth under Mnangagwa the soldier & who regularly briefed CIO head office & Mugabe, put the #gukurahundi genocidal murder toll at 18,000 and Dan Stannard, Mnangagwa's CIO mastermind put it at 50,000; in a detail accessed by @stu_doran in 2015!

12/14 Eddie Cross claims Mnangagwa played a minor role in the #gukurahundi atrocities; but here's Emmerson in April 1983 getting off a helicopter in a blue t/shirt carrying a SCEPTRE, at a MatNorth rally where he personally paraded alleged dissidents before they were disappeared!

13/14 This photo collage speaks for itself about Mnangagwa PERSONALLY dispensing extrajudicial barbarism against alleged dissidents, in April 1983 at a mass rally in MatNorth; three months after 5 Brigade had been deployed in Tsholotsho; where it was committing untold atrocities!

14/14 TAKE ANOTHER look at these verifiable pictures of Mnangagwa, with his SCEPTRE in hand, PERSONALLY parading alleged dissidents, not found guilty of any crime by any court of law; who were tortured and disappeared. WHERE ARE THEY? Mnangagwa must account for these Zimbabweans!

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1/24 ON 7 SEPT 2021, I reported that three key branches of the #CIO have joined hands with ZanuPF to launch a deadly #Twitterbots campaign👇🏿.

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2/24 THE IDEA that many grown up kids of ZanuPF parents are more ZanuPF than their parents is a social reality evidenced everywhere you find Zimbabweans, including in these streets. It's not that the grown up kids are more ZanuPF as members or supporters, than their parents; no!

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Dear Everyone,
1/24 WHAT'S GOING ON? This is the question I have been asked over the last few days, and especially since las Friday, through DMs, chats, calls & even in these streets.

It all started with this👇🏿tweet by @glenmpani!

https://twitter.com/glenmpani/status/1424635225947181056?s=19

2/24 The point by @glenmpani was that Zimbabweans seeking change:

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*Find MDC Chamisa disorganized, intolerant, immature & unstrategic.
*Think it's suicidal to be independent or to form a party.

I agreed with him as per this👇🏿!

https://twitter.com/ProfJNMoyo/status/1425411455189491712?s=19

3/24 ALAS, @glenmpani's tweet & my rejoinder torched a storm, with a torrent of abuse from some MDC-A rank and file. The worst for me was an MDC-A leader who angrily told a mutual colleague that I should have shared my rejoinder with him before tweeting it. No academic does that!

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26 Aug

1/7 MNANGAGWA'S CLAIM THAT HE WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH in 1965 and escaped the penalty because he was underage, is a MYTH, that is a LIE, as previously revealed by Jonathan Chando & now confirmed, behind Mnangagwa's back, by Eddie Cross in "A LIFE OF SACRIFICE: Emmerson Mnangagwa"!

2/7 THROUGHOUT HIS POLITICAL CAREER, Mnangagwa has claimed that he was sentenced to death for blowing up locomotive No 510 in Masvingo in 1964, but was not executed because he was underage. He repeated the lie in April 2021 in his @SundayMailZim interview with @VictoriaRuzvid2!

3/7 IN A REVEALING AND DAMAGING DISCLOSURE, which confirms Jonathan Chando's previous reports, Eddie Cross reproduces (p.23) the 1965 court record, which is missing from the National Archives, in which the judge found that: "I DO NOT THEREFORE PROPOSE TO SENTENCE YOU TO DEATH"!

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Dear Everyone,
1/24 There's been spirited debate in these streets & elsewhere, sparked by @glenmpani's intervention on Zimbabwe's triple crisis of political parties, arising from the DEPOLITICISATION of the public sphere since the Nov 2017 military coup!

2/24 Unfortunately but understandably, some vested interests took @glenmpani's intervention & my rejoinder to it, as an attack & opposition to @mdczimbabwe & @nelsonchamisa. Yet what's been seen as OPPOSITION is in fact FRUSTRATION & what's been seen as an ATTACK is a CHALLENGE!

3/24 Arguably, most Zimbabweans see the MDC-A as the most promising way forward. Yet as the the dynamics of 2023 become real with little preparedness to see on the ground; FRUSTRATION is dominating many private and public discussions, because the election is due within 23 months!

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Prof Jonathan Moyo

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11 Aug

1/24 This is a trenchant observation @glenmpani, as it aptly & criticallly captures the current Zimbabwean political dilemma: a nation trapped between a rock & a hard place, in a Gramscian Interregnum, unable to move forward because the old is neither dying nor birthing the new!

https://twitter.com/glenmpani/status/1424635225947181056

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3/24 The dilemma of those who are finding it challenging to be ZanuPF or MDC or Independent, has a context; given that there is no political party in Zimbabwe today with a discernible and coherent ideology or policy programme that's commensurate with the demands of the moment!

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Prof Jonathan Moyo

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8 Mar

1/24 Thank you @ProfMadhuku for an interesting but wrong opinion that s96(2) of the Constitution applies only to vps who're running mates & not current vps who're appointed. I offer my rejoinder because I triggered the debate👇🏿

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@adv_fulcrum & @Wamagaisa

https://twitter.com/ProfMadhuku/status/1368667769345019911

2/24 You fatally misunderstand the IMPORT of s96(2) by linking the public notice of a resignation of a vp to HOW they ASSUMED office, when it is about announcing a VACANCY that affects SUCCESSION to the Presidency; regardless of whether the resigning vp was ELECTED or APPOINTED!

3/24 I will elaborate on the above key point later, but first some points in limine on some surrounding observations. Firstly, I don't understand why you thought it necessary to present your opinion as an "extract from an academic manuscript". Is it a peer reviewed "extract"?

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