(NEWZIMBABWE) Moyo objective when bitter

Moyo objective when bitter
by Psychology Maziwisa
16/02/2010 00:00:00

JONATHAN Moyo’s response to his omission from the Zanu PF politburo compels one to conclude that he is objective when bitter.

No doubt, Moyo’s exposition of the politburo in its current form and its limitations thereof provides one with an unprecedented damning indictment of Zanu PF by one of its very own cadres, the kind of which came only from the late Edison Zvobgo.

What ramifications there are to follow, if any, are not of consequence for present purposes. What Moyo has sought to do, and has done successfully, is explain to Zanu PF that indeed times are changing and that party had better correspondingly change with them.

Perhaps this is one amongst the many early signs of the coming of democracy to Zimbabwe for not only was Moyo’s article made available through New Zimbabwe.com, it was, in fact, first published in the Sunday Mail, one of the very few articles critical of Zanu PF to have made it into the pages of the state mouthpiece.

Whatever speculation there was about the internal troubles of Zanu PF, Moyo puts them to rest in his article when he brazenly explains that factionalism has become the order of the day in that party.

Apart from Mugabe superficially denouncing factionalism and downplaying its extent, no other person in Zanu PF to my recollection had been on record, until Sunday, confirming that factionalism existed, let alone on the scale portrayed by Moyo. All this while we were made to believe that factionalism was a term unique only to the MDC, and that Zanu PF did not need to be reminded of the truism that anything anywhere was better off united than divided.

In my opinion, unless something is done and done with the expediency it requires, Zanu PF will soon be history as Moyo warns. I am not sure how Mugabe must feel right now, but there can be nothing worse that facing fierce opposition not only from without but also from within.

Yet there is a general disinclination within his party to do things the democratic way. It is becoming increasingly clear that just as Mugabe has instilled sustained fear on the ordinary man and woman on the street, he has also done the same with those around him who might occasionally find it instructive to question the status quo.

Instead of owing it to the people to salvage whatever there is left of Zimbabwe and work to better what could otherwise have been a worse situation, Mugabe continues to exhibit stunning detachment from the welfare of the nation.