Jonathan Moyo pour praises for Mugabe

Jonathan Moyo, the egg headed, is a hollow professor of doom and nutter of all times. Listening to him on BBC HardTalk just now, sent shivers through my spine that such an academic would stoop so low with bumptious moral ground, as he denied that ZANU PF is responsible for the economic meltdown in Zimbabwe.

Here are highlights:

On Itai Dzamara, Jonathan Moyo said Zimbabwe has porous borders and it is likely that he could have left the country for greener pastures, and that people disappear everyday whether in UK or USA and he did not see that as an exception.

On the fact that Zimbabwe is a country of vendors; he responded by saying he denies that it is the case because Zimbabwe has the most hardworking farmers and that the economic problems is because of the sanctions. When challenged how it can be that it is because of sanctions when the sanction by EU are only targeted at Robert Mugabe and Grace. His answer was that it’s an after effect of many years of sanctions.

On that why is it that 1.5 million Zimbabweans have run away to South Africa and other countries if the economy is sound and the politics is right? His answer was that it’s their right and after all British are all over the world. He accepted though that over 10% of Zimbabweans has left the country.

On whether Munangagwa is the right person to succeed Mugabe, he turned red, and was visibly angry bellowing that Munangagwa is not the successor apparent, he was only asked to assist Mugabe and it’s not true that he is going to the President's successor. I could tell that Jonathan Moyo seems to be privileged with inner circle information on who is going to succeed Mugabe and is certainly not Munangagwa. Asked if Grace was likely to succeed, he seemed more at easy to answer that question unlike that of Munangagwa, accepting that it will be up to the people of Zimbabwe, am I missing something here?

On whether he thinks it is sustainable that 82% of GDP goes to pay civil servants, he agreed that it was true and that it was not sustainable and that the government is looking into that.