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Africa: Subsaharan
Zanu PF chairman accused by Moyo of being a dictator and a liar
2005-01-15
Zanu PF party chairman John Nkomo said the party will take disciplinary measures against out of favour Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, who increasingly looks on his way out of both the party and government. Nkomo who chairs Zanu PF's disciplinary committee, said the party was going to act against Moyo for attacking and ridiculing Nkomo himself and another senior party member, Dumiso Dabengwa in an article published by the state-run Herald newspaper yesterday. "We are not going to tolerate indiscipline to tear the party apart," Nkomo said. "We will put the matter into perspective and help the public out of the agony of having to think out answers prompted by what they read (in the Herald)," added the Zanu PF chairman who was accused by Moyo of being a dictator and a liar. Moyo, an arch-critic of the government before changing sides to become its most zealous defender, appears already on his way out of the government after Zanu PF yesterday banned him from contesting March's general election.

He was in the government after President Robert Mugabe appointed him a non-constituency Member of Parliament under a constitutional clause allowing him to appoint 30 members to the House. But Mugabe has this time round promised not to appoint anyone to his Cabinet who is not elected in the March poll. Apparently frustrated at being banned from the general election and his dismissal earlier on by Mugabe from Zanu PF's key central and politburo committees, Moyo lashed out at Nkomo and Dabengwa who he accused of telling "primitive lies" about him to Mugabe. Moyo was fired from the party committees after he secretly attempted to block the appointment of Joyce Mujuru as Zanu PF's and Zimbabwe's second vice-president. Insiders said Mugabe was likely to view Moyo's outburst against Nkomo and Dabengwa as an attack on his authority, a development they said could see the former university political science teacher jettisoned from Zanu PF.
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