Ministers say Moyo plotted against Mugabe

Ministers say Moyo plotted against Mugabe

MOYO

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By Clemence Manyukwe

POLITICAL turncoat and former junior information minister Jonathan Moyo plotted to restructure Zanu PF's leadership, two ministers he invited to his Tsholotsho indaba last year will testify.

Deputy Ministers Andrew Langa and Abednico Ncube will tell a High Court judge Moyo invited them to attend the Tsholotsho indaba, widely perceived in Zanu PF as a plot to restructure the ruling party’s presidium.

The Daily Mirror newspaper says it has seen court papers which prove the two deputy ministers will testify to that effect in the Bulawayo High Court where Moyo has lodged a $2 billion lawsuit against Zanu PF national chairman John Nkomo and politburo member Dumiso Dabengwa.

Moyo is taking the two Zanu PF bigwigs to court on allegations that they defamed him when they alleged that he went to Dinyane High School in Tsholotsho to reorganise the presidium and that he was receiving funds from hostile nations.

Nkomo and Dabengwa filed the documents on April 20 in response to Moyo’s lawsuit.

“Andrew Langa will testify that he was invited by plaintiff (Moyo) to attend the Dinyane High School special organising meeting which he attended on November 18.

“He will further testify that he attended a subsequent meeting at the Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo on the same day at which the issue of the candidacy for the presidium and strategies for nomination were discussed,” read the court papers in part.

The legal documents also indicate that Ncube would concur with Langa.
At the time of the alleged invitation, Langa was Deputy Minister for Transport and Communications while Ncube was the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs.

The two have since been reassigned to deputise in the ministries of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare and Environment and Tourism respectively.

Nkomo and Dabengwa also indicated that they would call 17 other witnesses, including Zanu PF Harare provincial chairperson Amos Midzi, sacked ruling party Matabeleland North chairperson Jacob Mudenda, Bulawayo Metropolitan governor and resident minister Cain Mathema and his wife, Musa.

Mathema’s wife lost Tsholotsho to Moyo, who expelled himself from the ruling party and chose to stand as an independent in defiance of standing Zanu PF rules and regulations.

The party had reserved the Tsholotsho seat - which Moyo was eyeing and subsequently won – for a woman candidate. President Robert Mugabe then dismissed him from the government and ever since, the rabid critic of the private media has been using the same press he so loathed to attack policies of the Head of State and government.

Nkomo and Dabengwa went on to say that Mathema, who attended a different meeting in Tsholotsho which Moyo claimed was used as a platform to defame him, will testify to the contrary.

“Cain Mathema will testify that he attended the DCC meeting and will give an account of what took place and will deny that the defendants said anything as alleged by plaintiff,” the defendants said.

Moyo instituted the defamation lawsuit on January 18 against Nkomo and Dabengwa, claiming that they had slandered him at a meeting in Tsholotsho a week earlier.

However, Nkomo and Dabengwa prayed to the same court to dismiss Moyo’s claims with costs, arguing he had not been damaged in any way.
The matter is yet to be set down. Cossam Ncube of Job Sibanda and Associates is representing Moyo while Gula-Ndebele and Partners law firm are defending Nkomo and Dabengwa - Daily Mirror
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