Moyo admits Zimbabweans are angry

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.