via Moyo admits Zimbabweans are angry – Nehanda Radio March 16, 2015 by Brown Moyo
HARARE – Information Minister Jonathan Moyo has accepted that the majority of Zimbabweans are angry and a solution to their problems is needed urgently.
In one of his Facebook posts last week Moyo said he received so many insulting messages which show that the nation is angry.
“After a whole week of reading the insults that were sent my way, I’ve come out with the distinct feeling that some compatriots out there have a lot of anger that they want to get out of their chests,” Moyo said.
“It seems to me that when a person gets moved to the point of posting an insult into the inbox of another person, there must be some intended communication value of that insult. It is neither good nor healthy for the people’s chests to be full of anger,” he wrote.
Moyo also said: “I suppose those who in-boxed me insults believe they are making a point. Perhaps they indeed are and that’s why I felt it necessary to respond. Of course there were other messages which were not insults but they were few and far between.”
This is the first time that Moyo, the first man who defends president Robert Mugabe’s dictatorial tendencies, has realised the nation is sitting on a time bomb which may explode anytime soon.
Last week, following the abduction of activist Itai Dzamara, Zimbabwe was rocked by a series of demonstrations, from parliament to the streets of Harare, as protestors demanded the safe release of the activist.
In parliament the MDC-T legislators walked out of parliament after stand-in speaker of the National Assembly, Reuben Marumahoko denied Kuwadzana East legislator Nelson Chamisa’s motion to debate the abduction of Dzamara.
Since his abduction on Monday, Dzamara has attracted spotlight and has become a topical issue locally and internationally.
Demonstrations also rocked Zimbabwe when the MDC-T youths marched in protest of the abduction and demanding that Dzamara be released immediately.
Parliament’s question and answer session was also brought to a stand-still after the MDC-T parliamentarians asked the home affairs minister whether Dzamara is safe and why is he being kept incommunicado.
The anger of the nation was also displayed by prisoners at the Chikurubi Maximum prison who demonstrated resulting in three being shot to death.
Political analyst Maxwell Saungweme said Moyo’s comments show the minister has realised Zimbabweans are angry.
“It is true Zimbabweans are angry. Even Mugabe and the First family can see and feel that. Moyo is just being honest with himself. There is no rocket science about this.
“I think Moyo is just realising that you cannot fool yourself forever and say it is a mirage when it is a flood coming. People are angry, even the blind can see that and the dead can feel it,” Saungweme said.
COMMENTS
Zimbabweans are too afraid of Mugabe and will do nothing. They historically (going back hundreds of years) have shown they dont have the courage to stand up and be counted. They will survive on Mugabe’s handouts and promises of free land/farms/diesel/and anything else he can steal and give away.
Jrr56 u are 100% correct zimbabweans can be angry for all mugabe and zanula brothers and sisters care but they wl never act. They are afraid [zimbos] they should have acted when Learnmore Jongwe sacrificed his life for them and got killed by mugabe’s regime.
“After a whole week of reading the insults that were sent my way, I’ve come out with the distinct feeling that some compatriots out there have a lot of anger that they want to get out of their chests,” Moyo said.
No Jono. Most people are saying they want a forensic audit of all the chefs wealth and for all the looted money to be returned.
Maybe he has seen the light.
Mr Jonathan…can you please ask Mugabe that what else do he still wants to do for the people of Zimbabwe that he didn’t do in the past 35years of his rule
No Moyo we are not mad with ZanuPF or Bob we simply want to see the backs of you all as you run to Chikurubi and eat sadza and salt you idiot.
You aint seen nothing yet! A far worse fate is waiting for all you ZPF fatcats.
Anhu anohwadziwa ngemabatiho akeita Mai Mjuru.Anodiwa ngeanhu mai awa.Ngawazoke vaite president.
Man doesn’t realise the insults were just from disaffected ZANU morons.
Rest of us couldn’t give a toss if he roasted in hell.
What we need is only development.ask the president to visit empandeni mission by road .its still the same state he last so when he was teaching there.so what has he done for those people in 34yrs in power? Nothing
Jonothan Moyo is a useless fraudster, wanted in Kenya for grant fraud over the grant he was given by the Ford Foundation. He also is wanted in South Africa for grant fraud by the University of the Witwatersrand. The man is nothing but a lying fraudster.
@Kevin
Do u have the proof?
Haya ngatimboonai pachanakidza ipapa
how paiful is it to leave your country of origin looking for green pastures where else there is xenophobic attacks exploitation, looting of shops no free of lyf exposure. we are tired of empty promises we got from a puppet president mugabe. and our rights
have never work however we lost our families ,friends during the election.I’m also totally angry bt bt nothing I can do. wat we need is change.
No way, that’s zanu-pf’s tactics.
If you realise what happened in Matebeleland during those troubled days, and how the whole army was assembled to force people to demolish their homes you can understand that people have reason to be afraid but whether Mugabe goes or not as long as zanupf is in power that fear will always linger until it explodes. It si very soon. If all his (Moyo) friends were also on facebook they could get the same flak he is getting. Jonathan Moyo ZanuPF has made many people poor and angry and few people very corrupt and filthy rich.