Charamba is an "idiot" and "a rogue presidential spokesman" - Jonathan Moyo

Outspoken Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education Professor Jonathan Moyo has described presidential spokesman George Charamba as an “idiot” and “a rogue presidential spokesman.” In a hard-hitting interview with The Standard, Moyo said Charamba no longer represented the president’s views and was pursuing a “successionist” agenda. Moyo also described Charamba as a laughing stock can no longer be taken seriously by the media.

Asked if he believed that Charamba represented the President’s views on succession Moyo said:

No. I don’t believe that Charamba’s successionist outbursts on behalf of Mnangagwa represent Mugabe in any way, shape or form.

Quite clearly, the cat has come out of the bag that Charamba is now a rogue presidential spokesman and everybody can see that. That’s why you guys in the media no longer take him seriously. He has become a laughing stock.

The Professor also described Charamba and those who share his views as “idiots” for believing that they are entitled to own and control the country.

Said Moyo:

This very sick cabal notion of entitlement that chine vene vacho chinhu ichi [this thing has its owners} is not only unacceptably tribal, but it is also illegal because it violates the Constitution which vests executive, legislative and judiciary authority in the people. Entitlement is not just morally and legally wrong, but it is also evil. So only an idiot can say on behalf of fellow idiots that chine vacho chinhu ichi. The liberation war was not fought to turn certain individuals like Mnangagwa into manifestos. That’s insanity.

So, I want to repeat and make it very clear that anyone who thinks or believes that who comes after Mugabe has already been decided is an idiot. This is for the simple, but very important reason that the decision on who will succeed Mugabe, when the time comes, will be decided not by a self-selecting cabal, but by the people of Zimbabwe in terms of the Constitution. So it’s not about me, but about the people of Zimbabwe who will decide as they constitutionally must.

This follows Charamaba’s article in last week’s Herald in which Charamba said Moyo was too small to meddle in Zanu-PF succession politics.

More: Read the full interview in The Standard