Moyo vacates government house, moves to Bulawayo

Moyo vacates government house, moves to Bulawayo

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By Staff Reporter

ZIMBABWE'S former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo has quietly moved out of a government villa, just days before an extended-eviction notice expires.

Moyo had been housed at the government-owned villa in the plush Gunhill suburb of Harare since he accepted a post in President Robert Mugabe's Cabinet.

In Zimbabwe, Ministers who have no accommodation of their own are entitled to a free government house. Moyo had for almost six months lived at Harare's Sheraton Hotel while leading the government's botched Constitutional Referendum in 1999, gaining the title of "Sheraton Professor".

Moyo was given just 48 hours to vacate in mid-March after he rejected Mugabe's pleas not to stand as independent candidate in the forthcoming general election on March 31.

Moyo approached the High Court which overruled the government order, and gave him two weeks to seek alternative accommodation. The two weeks expires on Wednesday.

Moyo is said to have acquired a property in Zimbabwe's second largest city of Bulawayo from where he is now conducting his election bid.

He told a friend: "I am out of there (Gunhill), and I will not be coming back to Harare anytime soon, at least not before the elections...there are some bad people and evil spirits there."

Moyo was dismissed from government two weeks ago after he decided to stand as an independent parliamentary candidate in the Tsholotsho district of Matabeleland North.

All benefits he enjoyed, including a government mobile phone, chauffer-driven Mercedes and the Gunhill property were supposed to be surrendered back.

However, Moyo is a man of his means and has not been affected by the withdrawal of privileges. His campaign team has established an election operation room in Bulawayo with a pool of at least nine 4x4 all-terrain vehicles.
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