Moyo fights election disqualification

Moyo fights election disqualification

JONATHAN MOYO

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By Staff Reporter

ZIMBABWE'S controversial Information Minister Jonathan Moyo is fighting his disqualification from standing in Zanu PF primary polls to elect candidates to represent the party in Parliamentary elections in March.

In a letter to Zanu PF's secretary for the commissariat Elliot Manyika, Moyo said he had been unfairly disqualified after Zanu PF ruled at the last minute that the Tsholotsho seat, which Moyo was eyeing, had been reserved for women.

"If Tsholotsho had been indeed reserved for women candidates only, this should have been announced publicly and in advance to give all potential qualified women in the party an equal opportunity to participate and to give men due notice that they are excluded from participation. This was not done," Moyo said in the letter seen by the State-run Chronicle newspaper.

Moyo's latest attempts to win back the sole ticket to represent Zanu PF in the elections puts to rest rumours that he had given up on politics or that he had fled the country. He is currently on holiday with his family in Kenya.

Zanu PF's Matabeleland North provincial coordinating committee sat and decided on Tuesday that they wanted new women contestants for the seat -- controversially picking-up the wife of Bulawayo governor anf former Tsholotsho MP Cain Mathema, Moyo's political foe in the region.

The original candidates who had submitted their CVs, and had them accepted, Josephine Moyo and Similo Dube were disqualified for having attended a controversial indaba in Tsholotsho at which Moyo is alleged to have plotted a palace coup and tried to block the nomination of Joyce Mujuru to be the country's first female Vice President.

Moyo was dropped from the Zanu PF central committee and the politburo after the meeting. The recriminations against those who attended were felt far and wide, with six provincial chairman being suspended for five years each.

Moyo insists he meets all the party's requirements -- being a member of its National Consultative wing and a former central committee and politburo member.

He says in the letter: “When you (Manyika) directed late last month that the DCCs should start the process of officially selecting candidates, no instruction came either from you or the Matabeleland North Coordinating Committee to say that Tsholotsho had been reserved for women candidates only.

"...the two women who ended-up submitting their CVs did so from the floor of the meeting and apparently after they had been tipped to come prepared for the eventuality, nothing could be more unfair.”

Moyo gave notice that he would be appealing to the Zanu PF national election directorate for a review of the case.
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