Mnagagwa Should Desist From Petty Politics Of Persecuting Opponents - NewsDay

The NewsDay has castigated President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government for its propensity to engage in petty politics rather than focusing its energies on more pressing economic issues to better the lives of ordinary citizens.

This follows moves by the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement to repossess farms belonging to perceived former members of the ZANU PF G40 faction who were opposed to a Mnangagwa presidency, namely Jonathan Moyo and Saviour Kaukuwere. Part of the editorial reads:

There is absolutely no reason why the government should engage in such cheap politicking as it speaks to intolerance of opposition.

The fact that Kasukuwere and other former G40 kingpins like former Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo and many others do not agree with the Mnangagwa government is no reason to engage on a persecution crusade against them by grabbing their properties.

The Lands Ministry recently notified Moyo and Kasukuwere that their farms were being repossessed because they were underutilised.

Both Moyo and Kasukuwere are in self-imposed exile, with the former having fled the country during the military coup that toppled the then President, the late Robert Mugabe.

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