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(TALKZIMBABWE) MDC-T party is a political brothel: Prof Moyo

MDC-T party is a political brothel: Prof Moyo
Our reporter
Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:41:00 +0000

FORMER Minister of Information and Publicity and independent legislator for Tsholotsho North, Professor Jonathan Moyo has labelled the MDC-T party a political brothel.

Responding to an article written by MDC-T apologist and journalist, Luke Tamborinyoka in which he was labelled him a "celebrated political harlot" for returning to Zanu PF, Prof Moyo said the MDC-T party was made up of people who previously belonged to other parties.

He said Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was once a member of Zanu PF who still had not returned his membership card to the party.

"Tsvangirai ... has to this day not returned his Zanu-PF card," said Prof Moyo.

"The MDC-T leadership, including its parliamentarians and Cabinet ministers, have been in and out of an assortment of parties, including but not limited to UNFP, Zupo, PF-Zapu, Zanu-PF, Zanu Ndonga, Frolizi, UANC, Zum, DP, ZIP, Forum Party, UPP, Rhodesia Front, Rhodesia Action Party, NUF, CAZ, and many others?

"Going by the depraved logic of journalists like Tamborinyoka, the fact that the MDC-T leaders ... have previous party affiliations, means they are a conglomeration of turncoats and political prostitutes and that the MDC-T is therefore nothing but a political brothel!

"So, yes, there may be some uncomfortable journalists in that brothel, like Tamborinyoka, who are not happy about my rejoining Zanu-PF, but surely, that’s no reason to take them seriously."

The secretary general of the MDC-T party, Tendai Biti was a founding member of political maverick Edgar Tekere's Zimbabwe Unity Movement (ZUM). He joined an offshoot of ZUM, the Forum Party of Zimbabwe (FPZ) led by former Chief Justice Enock Dumbutshena at its formation in 1992.

In response to an allegation that he was responsible for crafting the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), among other "draconian laws", Prof Moyo said: "As for the notion that I introduced so-called Draconian media laws, my view is that you are talking about a now-tired and collapsing falsehood.

"As we speak today, the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) as well as the Broadcasting Services Act remain in our statutes not as introduced by me but as enacted by the Parliament of Zimbabwe and recently as amended by the current major three political parties, namely, Zanu PF and the two MDC formations.

"If the journalists you mention are uncomfortable with my return to Zanu-PF against this background, then you can see that they are the worst example of insecure people who fear fear itself. I don’t expect professional journalists to be like that. If you are afraid of fear, then you have yourself to blame."

Labels: JONATHAN MOYO, MDC, POLITICS

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