Moyo angers ex-Cabinet colleagues with tribal slur

Moyo angers ex-Cabinet colleagues with tribal slur

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By Staff Reporter

ZIMBABWE'S ex-Information Minister Jonathan Moyo continued to cause a raucous within government Thursday when government ministers queued-up to rebut his latest claims of rampant tribalism within the party.

Moyo laid into his ex-Cabinet colleagues and senior leaders within Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu PF party, claiming they were all submerged in a culture of cronyism and tribal politics.

"I am standing as an independent candidate in Tsholotsho as a statement against tribalism, against the politics of patronage, against the personalisation of national unity by an increasingly selfish, arrogant and unaccountable old guard and for sovereignty, democracy and development at local, provincial and national levels," Moyo blasted.

Moyo's diatribe sparked an angry response from the Zanu PF secretary for the commissariat Elliot Manyika, the party's national chairman John Nkomo and Corruption Minister Didymus Mutasa.

Said Manyika: "I think the man has gone back to his old days of scorning the party leaders and government. He just came in 2000 to join the government which was well run. There is no deadwood; the party is functioning well and the government is doing well. This is a case of sour grapes and what can one do when he is expelled from the party?"

Mutasa and Nkomo were more scathing, accusing the former university lecturer and critic of Mugabe's regime of being a traitor.

"Even Moyo knows that what he has said is not true. I don't know why he has said that, but I expect him to revise and withdraw that statement," Mutasa said.

Reacting to his dismissal from government after confirming his intention to stand as an independent last week, Moyo said: "I understand very well that he who appoints can also disappoint, unless one has been directly chosen or elected by the people themselves."
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