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Jonathan Moyo-s hypocritical lecture on democracy
Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
August 09, 2011

While I hold no brief for the British Government, I personally think Jonathan Moyo should be the last person to lecture people on democracy and a free press (zbc.co.zw, Violence exposes British hypocrisy, 08/08/11).

It is clear that Moyo and his follow media 'hangman- Tafataona Mahoso are trying to deflect attention from the diamond torture camps exposed by the BBC to the mindless recreational violence which recently swept through some British cities.

Hypocrisy is when Jonathan Moyo decried an election roadmap and threatened what is synonymous with a military coup when he said: "The looming danger which, if things continue the way they are going, will happen as sure as tomorrow is coming that what is currently a political process will become a national security matter" (Livingstone report now a matter for historians, Jonathan Moyo.com, 22 June 2011).

Hypocrisy is when Tafataona Mahoso weighed in with a tutorial to Britain on "violence in an area inhabited by neglected ethnic and social groups" when he reportedly ordered farmer Charles Bezuidenhout to leave his Welverdien Farm in Mutare in November 2009.

Perhaps to understand hypocrisy Mahoso needs to read the GAPWUZ report: If Something Is Wrong - The Invisible suffering of commercial farm workers and their families due to 'land reform- (Sokwanele.com).

Hypocrisy is when Jonathan Moyo watches media coverage of the unwarranted riots in Britain only to accuse the same media for "being silent when faced with similar problems" (like in Libya Afghanistan and Zimbabwe). What a contradiction!

Hypocrisy is when The Herald online took its time to report the death of Public Service Minister the late Professor Mukonoweshuro by posting the story at 2 o-clock Saturday afternoon 6th August 2011 when he had died early Friday morning and was denied hero status presumably because of exposing 75 000 ghost workers.

Hypocrisy is when Jonathan Moyo published scores of articles highly critical of Robert Mugabe president of Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe-s independent press, only to sue them saying he is now offended by his own articles and even wants damages.

Hypocrisy is when a former Zanu-PF government minister Sikanyiso Ndlovu blamed the Zimbabwe cholera outbreak in 2008 on the UK, only for Robert Mugabe to appeal to Britain for help as the death toll reached 570 and 13000 were infected (BBC, UK caused cholera, says Zimbabwe, 12/12/08; Timesonline.co.uk, 05/12/08).

The then Prime Minister Gordon Brown who was maligned on Zanu-PF banners alleging it was his cholera, pledged an additional £10 million to combat the crisis.

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