Matsanga delights in Moyo's misfortunes

Matsanga delights in Moyo's misfortunes

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By Henry Makiwa

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's British-based public relations exponent, Ugandan David Nyekorach-Matsanga is exultant that his chief nemesis Zimbabwean Information Minister Jonathan Moyo has finally been humbled but warns that the beleaguered spin doctor may emerge as a Western-backed opposition leader.

Matsanga told New Zimbabwe.com that he was palliated to see Moyo wallow in his current problems and charged that Mugabe's spin doctor was now reaping the rewards of the "seeds of hatred" he sowed.

"Its sometimes pointless on the 'would-haves', but had Zanu PF and President Mugabe reined in Moyo in good time, some of the crises Zimbabwe finds itself in would have been skirted easily," Matsanga claimed.

"The point now is to glean into the future and make sure that similar mistakes are not repeated. And I am afraid that if Moyo chooses to abort Zanu PF and successfully win the sympathy of the West, President Mugabe will now be up against a very strong opposition armed with information from within his administration. It may seem like a far fetched thought but remember that Moyo is an American-trained intellectual who went to college with Condolezza Rice (US President George W. Bush's chosen secretary of state)...hence some of these Stalinist-like purges going on in Zimbabwe could yield sour fruits if they are not well managed."

In May last year, Matsanga alleged that Zimbabwe's dreaded secret service operatives loyal to Moyo had abducted him while attempting to enter Zimbabwe at Harare International Airport with the British SKY News journalists to interview Mugabe. Matsanga says the security details assaulted him before robbing him of money and an expensive watch.

"He (Moyo) abused his power, as he has done through out the past five years, to torture me and cowardly humiliate me but I forgive him now. And now that he is out in the world, I will truly forgive him if he returned the watch that his people stole from me. Its an expensive heirs loon which I treasure so much and I should have it back by any means necessary," said Matsanga who was friends with Moyo until they clashed on ideologies to prop Mugabe's image.

"Moyo clearly engineered an impressive pre-election manifesto for Zanu PF before the 2002 Presidential election in which Mugabe won. He however, ran out of ideas to execute conventional and transparent mechanisms in the period after winning the election hence he opted for repressive means to black-out Zimbabwe from the rest of the world. He should have allowed foreign journalists and the independent media to operate in the country and accept criticism. Now he is doomed," Matsanga said.

Moyo fell out of favour with Mugabe last month after organising a clandestine meeting to scuttle the election of Joyce Mujuru as the party's vice-president and has since been on a freefall from grace. He was a fortnight ago barred from contesting the primaries in his home province of Matabeleland North after the ruling party reserved the Tsholotsho seat for a woman candidate.
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