Moyo slams claims he 'engineered' Mugabe's victory
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Through newZimbabwe.com
TSHOLOTSHO North MP Professor Jonathan Moyo has hit back with fury at claims that he “engineered” President Robert Mugabe’s “landslide” election victory on June 27.
Moyo said the allegations, carried by internet news sites, were “flattering, but unfortunately false”.
Moyo, reports said, had worked clandestinely with Zanu PF’s election campaign team and held regular meetings with top Zanu PF officials including Emmerson Mnangagwa at a house in Avondale owned by one Pauline Mahoya, said to be the second wife of former Midlands provincial governor, July Moyo.
The former Information Minister said the allegations, which he was not given an opportunity to respond to, were “coming from an absolutely idle mind”.
He said: “The people who were behind Mugabe’s media campaign deserve credit for a job well done, and the credit is not mine. I would have no qualms taking credit for it if I had engineered it as it is being said, but I do not deserve the credit, so I won’t take it.”
TSHOLOTSHO North MP Professor Jonathan Moyo has hit back with fury at claims that he “engineered” President Robert Mugabe’s “landslide” election victory on June 27.
Moyo said the allegations, carried by internet news sites, were “flattering, but unfortunately false”.
Moyo, reports said, had worked clandestinely with Zanu PF’s election campaign team and held regular meetings with top Zanu PF officials including Emmerson Mnangagwa at a house in Avondale owned by one Pauline Mahoya, said to be the second wife of former Midlands provincial governor, July Moyo.
The former Information Minister said the allegations, which he was not given an opportunity to respond to, were “coming from an absolutely idle mind”.
He said: “The people who were behind Mugabe’s media campaign deserve credit for a job well done, and the credit is not mine. I would have no qualms taking credit for it if I had engineered it as it is being said, but I do not deserve the credit, so I won’t take it.”
Moyo scraps plan to write memoirs
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Through newZimbabwe.com
ZIMBABWE’S former Information Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has scrapped plans for a new book about his time in government “after being reminded of a Leninist truism”, he said in an interview on Tuesday.
Moyo, a political scientist and independent legislator for Tsholotsho North, announced in 2005 that he was writing his memoirs – documenting his time as an abrasive wordsmith for President Robert Mugabe’s government in which he served for five years.
Moyo’s account would have been the first by anyone with an intimate knowledge of the workings of Mugabe’s government.
But Zimbabweans will have to wait much longer to read Moyo’s reflections, which he still intends to write.
ZIMBABWE’S former Information Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has scrapped plans for a new book about his time in government “after being reminded of a Leninist truism”, he said in an interview on Tuesday.
Moyo, a political scientist and independent legislator for Tsholotsho North, announced in 2005 that he was writing his memoirs – documenting his time as an abrasive wordsmith for President Robert Mugabe’s government in which he served for five years.
Moyo’s account would have been the first by anyone with an intimate knowledge of the workings of Mugabe’s government.
But Zimbabweans will have to wait much longer to read Moyo’s reflections, which he still intends to write.
Mbeki may yet be Zimbabwe's saviour
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Interview with South Africa's City Press newspaper.
What's going to happen in the next couple of weeks in your view?
We have to come to some closure on the March 29 election and that specific process should be wrapped up by the end of this week, such that by this time next week we should know what officialdom says was the final outcome of both the presidential election, the results of which have not been announced, and the parliamentary election which is going through a recount in the 23 constituencies and affecting the balance of power in terms of who will control parliament.
So, at the very least, by this time next week we should know the official position as to the outcome of the presidential election and who controls parliament. However, that will not assist much because it's the official position, which position will not have many takers given that it has been compromised by the inexplicable delay surrounding the presidential election results and also the inexplicable decision to order a recount of 23 constituencies whose results had been declared as final.
It is unusual, in fact unheard of, that an authority declares the final result, turns around and reopens the same results. In terms of due process, when an authority has made a final declaration, it stands. It can only be overturned another authority, in this case the Electoral Court. Even if that authority discovers something wrong, when they do that, their discovery should form part of an affidavit that is submitted to somebody else to look at. So we have this background in which the first public reaction will be to question the official declaration that must be made this week. We are about to move to the real problem which is a political stand-off in Zimbabwe. And that stand-off will not be resolved by the official declaration of the results, whatever is declared.
What's going to happen in the next couple of weeks in your view?
We have to come to some closure on the March 29 election and that specific process should be wrapped up by the end of this week, such that by this time next week we should know what officialdom says was the final outcome of both the presidential election, the results of which have not been announced, and the parliamentary election which is going through a recount in the 23 constituencies and affecting the balance of power in terms of who will control parliament.
So, at the very least, by this time next week we should know the official position as to the outcome of the presidential election and who controls parliament. However, that will not assist much because it's the official position, which position will not have many takers given that it has been compromised by the inexplicable delay surrounding the presidential election results and also the inexplicable decision to order a recount of 23 constituencies whose results had been declared as final.
It is unusual, in fact unheard of, that an authority declares the final result, turns around and reopens the same results. In terms of due process, when an authority has made a final declaration, it stands. It can only be overturned another authority, in this case the Electoral Court. Even if that authority discovers something wrong, when they do that, their discovery should form part of an affidavit that is submitted to somebody else to look at. So we have this background in which the first public reaction will be to question the official declaration that must be made this week. We are about to move to the real problem which is a political stand-off in Zimbabwe. And that stand-off will not be resolved by the official declaration of the results, whatever is declared.
Moyo predicts unprecedented chaos in Zimbabwe elections
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By Fikile Mapala through New Zimbabwe
Political scientist and independent MP for Tsholotsho Professor Jonathan Moyo said Zimbabwe was going into an election it could not afford after a constitutional amendment passed last year brought forward council, senate, parliamentary and presidential elections to be held on the same day.
Moyo, a respected academic and former information minister, said the Zanu PF government had no capacity to run such a mammoth election.
Political scientist and independent MP for Tsholotsho Professor Jonathan Moyo said Zimbabwe was going into an election it could not afford after a constitutional amendment passed last year brought forward council, senate, parliamentary and presidential elections to be held on the same day.
Moyo, a respected academic and former information minister, said the Zanu PF government had no capacity to run such a mammoth election.
Mugabe could face second round of voting - Moyo
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From newzimbabwe.com
ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe will likely be forced into a second round of voting after the country’s presidential elections on March 29 because of Simba Makoni’s decision to join the race, a leading political scientist said this week.
Professor Jonathan Moyo believes Mugabe will face a run off -- the result of a 2002 amendment to the country’s Electoral Act which requires that the winner of the presidential election must receive a clear majority – or 51 percent.
The Electoral Act (Chapter 2;13) Section 110(3) states: “Where two or more candidates for president are nominated, and after a poll taken in terms of subsection (2), no candidate receives a majority of the total number of valid votes cast, a second election shall be held within twenty one days after the previous election in accordance with this Act.”
ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe will likely be forced into a second round of voting after the country’s presidential elections on March 29 because of Simba Makoni’s decision to join the race, a leading political scientist said this week.
Professor Jonathan Moyo believes Mugabe will face a run off -- the result of a 2002 amendment to the country’s Electoral Act which requires that the winner of the presidential election must receive a clear majority – or 51 percent.
The Electoral Act (Chapter 2;13) Section 110(3) states: “Where two or more candidates for president are nominated, and after a poll taken in terms of subsection (2), no candidate receives a majority of the total number of valid votes cast, a second election shall be held within twenty one days after the previous election in accordance with this Act.”
Power vacuum looms in Zimbabwe
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By Joseph Sithole
Professor Jonathan Moyo, the lone independent member of Zimbabwe's parliament, observed last year that the greatest threat to President Robert Mugabe's hold on power was not political opposition but the crumbling economy.
Professor Jonathan Moyo, the lone independent member of Zimbabwe's parliament, observed last year that the greatest threat to President Robert Mugabe's hold on power was not political opposition but the crumbling economy.