EXILED former minister Jonathan Moyo has claimed
he has never been a political ally of President Emmerson Mnangagwa even during
the days of the Tsholotsho Declaration, adding he holds the country’s leader in
“disdain” and as the instigator of Gukurahundi.
Moyo was viewed as a key player in the 2004 declaration
when a group of six Zanu PF provincial chairpersons, members of the politburo,
central committee and war veterans met in Tsholotsho to plot and push Mnangagwa
to occupy the vacant post of Vice-President following the death of Simon
Muzenda.
The move was undone by then President Robert Mugabe’s move
to amend the party constitution to ensure one of his deputies was a woman.
The decision saw now opposition leader Joice Mujuru become
Vice-President.
“The widely held view that Mnangagwa and I have, at any
time before now, been so-called political allies, or that I supported him in
the Tsholotsho saga, is pure fiction. Mnangagwa and I know only too well that
we have always held each other in mutual contempt. Ever since!
“As captured in Wikileaks, on 21 December 2001 Mnangagwa,
as Speaker of Parliament, ‘voiced his disdain’ for me to US Ambassador to
Zimbabwe, Joseph Sullivan. He said that knowing I too was, as I still am, disdainful
of him as the ugly face of what’s wrong with Zanu PF and Zimbabwe!,” Moyo wrote
on his Twitter timeline on Friday responding to a question why he blames
Mnangagwa for the Gukurahundi massacres.
Mnangagwa stands accused of having had a hand in Gukurahundi
since he was State security minister, a charge he vehemently denied saying the
blame laid squarely with Mugabe.
“Mnangagwa has flatly refused to acknowledge, take
responsibility or apologise for his role in the Gukurahundi atrocities. He’s on
record before the coup declaring Gukurahundi a closed chapter.
“A person who does not acknowledge a tragic problem, like
Gukurahundi, can’t be expected to solve that problem. President Mugabe
acknowledged Gukurahundi as a moment of madness. But he failed to solve it,
because he was held hostage by Gukurahundi denialists who ousted him!,” Moyo
wrote.
He added: “An obvious question to ask is, why has Mnangagwa
refused to acknowledge, take responsibility and apologise for Gukurahundi? An
obvious answer is simply that he knows only too well that he was, and is, the
most culpable; as the leading instigator and enforcer of Gukurahundi.!”
Mnangagwa refused to take responsibility or tender
apologies for the Gukurahundi massacres during an interview in Davos, Switzerland.
The President has appointed a National Peace and Reconciliation Commission
(NPRC) to deal with the 1980’s mass killings.
Moyo added: “Under Mnangagwa’s unfettered control and
direction, assisted by Danny Stannard and their coterie of British and apartheid
intelligence operatives, the CIO manufactured lies that Zapu leaders and
Ndebeles were fomenting insurrection and tortured and murdered alleged
insurgents!
“The lead state organ in the execution of the State of
emergency in the dark Gukurahundi years between 1980 and 1987 was Mnangagwa’s
brutal CIO. In this period, illegal detentions against court orders, widespread
torture and murder on a mass scale were the order of the day!” Newsday
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