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Moyo's utterances expose his ignorance
Paul Themba Nyathi, Secretary for Information and Publicity (MDC)
October 26, 2004

Junior Minister Jonathan Moyo’s comments that the MDC will not be afforded access to the media is further evidence of the regime’s determination to hold elections in conditions that deny the people of Zimbabwe a free and fair election.

The people of Zimbabwe and the SADC region are agreed that there is need for full access to information by all citizens. There must also be access to all media and the full diversity of voices so that the people can speak for themselves and hear their concerns being articulated in the media.

The people of Zimbabwe need food, they are starving. They need jobs. They need to speak about their anxieties as they ponder about their future. According to Moyo, things are improving in Zimbabwe; the people have enough food and jobs. The stories of people who go hungry every day and all the young people who do not have jobs do not matter. According to him, these things are an invention of the enemy.

What matters to Moyo and the Mugabe regime is to blow billions of dollars on galas that promote Moyo’s image and obscene music and dance on national television.

Obviously Jonathan Moyo and the Mugabe regime in their alliance of evil are very afraid of the truth. The people must not know that there is no food in Zimbabwe. The people must not know the number of companies that have closed down resulting in millions of jobs being lost under the Zanu PF regime. The people must not know that while they starve Jonathan Moyo shops for food in South Africa and tells the nation that the country has enough food. In Moyo’s narrow minded logic the people of Zimbabwe must only have full access to information which he himself deems appropriate.

Moyo is furious that opposition parties in Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia have not gone on regional tours lobbying for the SADC norms and standards to be implemented in their countries. The answer is plain and simple all other SADC countries have gone a long way in implementing the SADC norms and standards while the Zimbabwe regime continues to go against the tide, closing newspapers, banning campaign meetings and promoting violence against the citizens. We do not expect an unelected Minister to appreciate the need for a free and fair electoral environment.

People like Moyo who represent only the mandate given to them by Mugabe are at the fore-front in the fight against the wishes of the people.

As Moyo gives himself saturation coverage in state papers, radio and television, he must ask himself whether he is the only person who has something to say about Zimbabwe. Excessive self promotion goes with lack of basic human decency. Zimbabwe needs a new beginning that will create jobs and food. The MDC Restart programme is the answer to the people’s wishes.

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