Former Higher Education Minister, Prof Jonathan Moyo has confirmed that he begged former first lady, Grace Mugabe to help him and his family...
Former Higher Education Minister, Prof Jonathan Moyo has
confirmed that he begged former first lady, Grace Mugabe to help him and his
family when soldiers moved in.
He told The Standard :”My family and I were with Cde
Kasukuwere and his family when his house came under heavy gunfire from
Chiwenga’s soldiers.
During that gunfire, I got a call from Amai Dr Grace Mugabe,
who knew that my family and I had joined the Kasukuweres earlier in the night
and she was checking on us after receiving reports of army shootings at Dr
Ignatius Chombo’s house.
When I answered the call, I told her we were under attack,
asked for help to rescue the families, especially the children, who were in
indescribable disbelief and shock that Chiwenga had sent soldiers to kill them.
Amai Mugabe could hear the heavy and continuous sound of
gunfire as I spoke to her and she too became shocked beyond description before
hanging up the call.
Some five or so minutes later, she called again and asked
me how many we were in the Kasukuwere house.
I told her that Cde Kasukuwere was with his wife and three
children while I was with my wife and four children making a total of 11 of us.
Amai Mugabe called again after 10 or so minutes and by this
time the gunfire had gone silent and she advised that two Landcruisers, one for
each family, were on their way to take us to the Blue Roof, President Mugabe’s
residence, where we could leave our terrified families.
When the first Landcruiser arrived, Cde Kasukuwere put on
his bulletproof vest and went outside the house and was driven to the Blue
Roof.
We waited for Cde Kasukuwere to come back to advise us what
was going on outside as we did not know then that he had already gone alone to
the Blue Roof but when he did not return, after a little, we all started
getting out of the house one by one but fearing that the soldiers were still in
the vicinity.
Then the second Landcruiser arrived and the 10 of us
quickly jumped in and somehow managed to fit to our great surprise and relief.
Cde Kasukuwere and I left the Blue Roof after our arrival. Getting
out of there was not much of an issue, but getting out of the country took the
intervention of angels.
Prof Moyo said Mnangagwa as a disaster. “Mnangagwa is an
unmitigated disaster. In constitutional terms, he is no better than [Abel]
Muzorewa, whose illegal regime was shortlived and is now forgotten as an
obscure footnote in history and a constitutional opprobrium.
Just like Muzorewa, Mnangagwa is illegal and supported by
the military because he’s unpopular with the masses and is thus unelectable yet
he has an exaggerated Muzorewa-like “huruyadzo” mentality.
Mandarins in the coup government know this and that’s why
they are currently bent on unprecedented asset-stripping and looting of state
resources; they know that they are in an illegal regime with legs made of clay
as was Muzorewa’s regime.
What is striking about this is that as it was that Muzorewa
emerged just before Zimbabwe’s frst republic ushered in by the critical
election in 1980, Mnangagwa has emerged just before the country’s second
republic to be ushered in by the critical election in 2018.
In historical terms, this means that we should expect a
Muzorewa-like personality, which Mnangagwa is, to preface a critical election
and a new republic.
So, like that of Muzorewa, Mnangagwa’s reign will be
shortlived and all its unconstitutional appointments and excesses will be
reversed.
JM: Well, I don’t know what you mean by “during the coup”.
The coup is still on as we speak.
There’s a coup government in Zimbabwe. But no, I did not
hide at President Mugabe’s house in the morning of November 15, 2017 when the
coup happened.
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