Zanu PF welcomes back Prof Moyo, Zhuwao

Harare- ZANU PF has opened the door to self exiled G40 kingpins Patrick Zhuwao and Professor Jonathan Moyo after the duo had written an open letter apologizing for aligning with CCC’s Nelson Chamisa pushing the hashtag #Zanupfmustgo. Express Mal Zim can report.

Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa on Wednesday said the party “welcomes them back in the fold” since the revolutionary party belongs to everyone.

“We want to congratulate the two of them for the courage and action they have taken . We welcome them back in the fold, this is a party of the Zimbabwe revolution and everybody belongs to it,” he said.

He said the party do not look at the past differences but rather opportunities of working together.

The duo , along with former commissar Saviour Tyson Kasukuwere and former Tourism minister Walter Mzembj fled the country at the height of the military intervention in 2017.

Moyo is based in Kenya while the other three are based in South Africa .

Tyson and Mzembi seem to be ‘hard nuts to crack’ and are not vaccilating from their anti-Zanu PF stance.

Mzembi reportedly made it clear that he was not part of the ‘prodigal’ sons and had no wish to return to the ruling party.

He said “each man speaks for himself” in apparent reference to the open letter authored by his two compatriots.

On the other hand, Tyson is said to have beefed up his security in fear that security agents were stalking him.

He also formed his political movement ‘Tysonwabantu’ and the former Central Intelligence Officer (CIO) harbours presidential ambitions.

Express Mail Zim presents hereunder Mutsvangwa’s full statement:

“We want to congratulate the two of them (Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao) for the courage and the action which they have just taken. We welcome them back into the fold, this is a party of the Zimbabwe revolution and everybody belongs to it.

Just recently, President Mnangagwa revisited the hero statuses of James Chikerema and Ndabaningi Sithole and declared them national heroes. It is in the same spirit that we welcome both Zhuwao and Professor Moyo to the party and we want to see how we work together to bring prosperity to the Zimbabwean people. That is the goal. We don’t look at past differences but opportunities of working together which can arise when all Zimbabwe come into the same fold.

We are not bothered with the past, we’re much more pre-occupied with the opportunities of the future.
If they come back and they are genuine we want them to be part of the big party which is Zanu PF, it embraces everybody.
They are as good Zimbabweans as any, regardless of where we may have fallen out in the past. It’s inevitable in politics that we will disagree, we may have bitter disputes but the most important thing is how you come back together, how you end up working together, how you end up finding each other. In this instance we are happy that both Jonathan and Patrick have come back, we have found each other again and there will be room for them in the party. We do hope that this will also be followed by others who may have a similar mind, they take the cue from the two of them so that they all come back into the fold of Zanu PF and the Zimbabwe revolution.

There was quite some euphoria leading to the Zanu PF congress in October about divisions in the party. People overlook that the cadreship of the party, particularly at the highest level, has been working together for more than four decades through thick and thin, through war and peace. For people who are upstarts and arrivists to think that there are fundamental differences in Zanu PF which can be exploited by foreigners, they overlook this long bond of cadreship and friendship especially among the leadership. It triumphed during the course of the congress that long bond and it laid the ghost of those who felt that Zanu PF can be divided and ruled, we are party cadres of long standing. We know each other and we are likely to find each other when the time is due.

We are very happy, I hope the likes of Saviour Kasukwuere can also take the cue. He used to be very close to both Jonathan and Patrick. He is still out there in the cold, I do hope that his illusions about his political stature outside of Zanu PF can be shattered by what has happened now and he genuinely comes back and becomes part of the Zimbabwe revolution. We are much more interested in how we can find a way to work together than dwelling on the reasons of past differences.

Zanu PF is at its strongest ever. President Mnangagwa has done a fantastic job uniting the cadreship in the party and the multiracial build-up of the Zimbabwe population. He has also done a great job in the ethnic domain of our national politics. He is addressing past grievances in an open and inclusive manner, you can’t doubt his sincerity. When you marry what he’s doing now in the political arena with what he is achieving in the economic field where Zimbabwe is exciting some of the largest corporate boardrooms of the world. The Zimbabwe natural resource endowment and the work ethic of its people is a wonder to the world.”