Zimbabwe state newspaper deserts Moyo

Zimbabwe state newspaper deserts Moyo

MOYO

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By Staff Reporter

IN A surprise move, the stated-run Chronicle newspaper which recently came under fire for being used to prop-up Information Minister Jonathan Moyo's
waning political fortunes has made a sudden U-turn
and attacked the beleaguered information czar.

In its weekly gossip column, Busy Body, the paper which has prodigiously pandered to Moyo's whims, hinted that the motor-mouthed Minister was on his way
out.

The paper suggested that Zimbabwe's biggest daily
newspaper, The Daily News, which was closed under a draconian law crafted by the professor, the infamous Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act might bounce back.

Said the paper: "Hopes are high that the paper (Daily News) might come back following the alleged fall of seka Isaac (Isaac's father) of the so-called Tsholotsho Declaration."

Moyo -- a former arch-critic of Mugabe -- together with several Zanu PF officials are in trouble over a meeting they held in Tsholotsho ostensibly to defy President Mugabe's directive that the ruling Zanu PF party must nominate a woman as his deputy. The meeting is said to have come up with the so called Tsholotsho Declaration, which supported Speaker of Parliament, Emmerson Mnangagwa instead of Joyce Mujuru who was eventually chosen at the party's congress three weeks ago.

Early this year, a young boy named Isaac who is from Tsholotsho, came out in a story originated by Chronicle claiming to be the forsaken son of Moyo. The junior minister, however, claimed that the boy was not his son and was only "a figment of the imagination of his political opponents".

Nothing has been heard about the boy except that his mother died in unexplained circumstances a few months ago.

The Busy Body column is believed to be written by Chronicle editor Steven Ndlovu, Moyo's stooge, who was last week summoned to Harare to explain why the paper was being used by Moyo to exonerate himself and attack other members of the party.

This was after the paper dedicated its entire front page to stories exonerating Moyo and attacking his opponents within the ruling party. One of the stories is believed to have agitated Mugabe because it contained confidential information which Moyo had used to defend himself when he appeared before the party's highest decision-making body, the politburo, over the "Tsholotsho Declaration".

The Chronicle, which has been nicknamed the Tsholotsho Bullentin, used to sell more than 35 000 copies per day but has drastically lost readership and sells less than 12 000 copies a day despite the closure of The Daily News.
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