(ANALYSIS)Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Jonathan Moyo’s announcement that Zimbabwe’s Criminal Defamation statutes are now to be repealed so that the country falls well in line with the new constitution, is in actual fact an opportunity for the opposition as they prepare for the next elections in 2018.
Below was an analysis by political commentator Julius Mutyambizi:
“This paradigm shift is among some pragmatic steps that some are taking to re-brand themselves. ZANU PF is clearly changing and setting a different paradigm from which future political debate can be fought.
“It is wiser for the opposition to notice this ahead of the 2018 election. In future elections will not be fought on the platform of human rights abuses but it will be fought on a completely new turf. Formidable opposition positions itself as an alternative government, ready to govern, with an alternative into the posterity and not the past, the past is relevant only when it represents unfinished business but you cannot base your alternatives and narratives entirely on the past.
“Good planners will start now, notice what your competitors are doing, build on new competencies, discard old, obsolete narratives and reinvent new ones to reignite legitimate debate and stay relevant to the electorate in your own way through offering alternatives on the future that can entrench themselves in people’s minds and resonate with them until election time.”
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Cry my beloved zim. Zanu is so good at diverting focus of people and create high school debates. The focus should be of creating jobs and lurering of foreign investors. Shame on you Jona Moyo
All those who know Zanu will agree that, ‘change’ to Zanu is synonymous with ‘cede’. Any paradigm shift to zanu is unthinkable, as it means overhauling its highly successful modus operandi which has seen them hold on to power despite losing elections many times. Who says the constitution can’t be changed, they tore the Lancaster house constitution, of which they were signatories, many times.
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just kidding I don’t work in any office… am just a High School student exercising his democratic right…. but he is still a snake… and according to my analysis he is Baba Jukwa… I remember when Mad Bob said we have found other ways of winning the elections on that program on Sabc 3…
Jonah is Baba Jukwa confusing people even more… then we wake up the next day he is in the government… He was Mad Bob’s secret weapon way before the election… don’t trust this snake…I work in his office and I know that he’s not to be trusted…
Vipers….ready to confuse, and then attack like demented hyenas….Guys these goons stole our victory right in front of our nose…..and then they are coming back to us with their stupid schemes….we won’t buy that.
Zanu pf is good at appearing as though they are making a progressive move when they are actually making a retrogressive move. Look at the broadcasting licenses which everyone else thought we were going to see real new players only to see Supa Mandiwanzira and Zimpaper coming as the new players. Let’s wait and see.
Zimbabweans should be wary of Jonathan Moyo’s crocodile tears. There is a ploy to defame Morgan and MDC T members with no recourse to judiciary. Noble as this might appear lets not forget that Zanu pf has the capacity to abuse its own laws for its survival. Jonathan Moyo is unelectable so he loses nothing from creating a hate campaign against MDC T.