The Movement for Democratic Change complained that it had been cheated out of the 2002 presidential elections and would only accept a transitional arrangement leading to new elections while the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front sought to legitimise the presidency of Robert Mugabe and was prepared to offer some seats in government to the MDC in a government of national unity.
(29 VIEWS)
Three journalists were arrested for demonstrating against the proposed Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Bill. The journalists denounced both the bill and its sponsor Information Minister Jonathan Moyo.
(119 VIEWS)
The number of Wikileaks cables on former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo now published on our website has risen to 50. There are about 240 cables on Moyo.
(25 VIEWS)
The passing of the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act which slapped sanctions on Zimbabwe and top ranking officials of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front received wide coverage in Zimbabwe but Information Minister Jonathan Moyo downplayed it calling it a “tempest in a teapot”.
(78 VIEWS)
Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said he was fighting against terrorism in the run-up to the 2002 presidential elections and labelled the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and the independent media as supporters of terrorism.
(59 VIEWS)
Grace Kwinje, a former journalist turned Movement for Democratic Change politician, made headlines when she claimed that she had come up with the name of the party. Though she also made headlines following her story about a soldier who had been buried without his head and when she was arrested after being beaten up by the police, there were only five Wikileaks cables that mentioned her name.
(47 VIEWS)
Information Minister Jonathan Moyo blasted the Media Institute of Southern Africa after it denounced the arrest of Daily News editor Geoff Nyarota and his former business partner Wilf Mbanga for allegedly contravening the Zimbabwe Investment Centre Act.
(44 VIEWS)
Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said violence begets violence and talk about phantom violence in Zimbabwe could only encourage unscrupulous elements, among them ex-Rhodesians belonging to the Movement for Democratic Change to instigate violence in the hope of using it as a political platform.
(88 VIEWS)
South Africa’s ambassador to Zimbabwe Jeremiah Ndou said President Robert Mugabe was being misled by his inner circle of friends especially Information Minister Jonathan Moyo because he was “not good friends with the truth”.
(171 VIEWS)
Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo and Youth Development Minister Shuvai Mahofa were reportedly dishing out large amounts of cash at political rallies in the run-up to the Bulawayo mayoral elections.
(46 VIEWS)
