Jonathan Moyo calls for zero tolerance to negative politics

Information Minister Jonathan Moyo has called for zero tolerance to negative politics describing the current squabbles in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front provincial elections as “side shows”.

“The real drama of our national politics is around Zim Asset,” Moyo said.

According to The Herald, Moyo said people should focus on implementing the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim Asset) and not on internal or succession politics because this was disruptive.

ZANU-PF had secured more than two-thirds majority because people wanted a change in their lives not for leaders to squabbles about succession. Sadly this had happened before when ZANU-PF secured a two-thirds majority.

“We did that after the two-thirds majority win in 2005, though not emphatic as this one, where soon after that comrades started pre-occupying themselves with internal and succession politics. Because it has happened, this time the message is not again, the message is we have managed to come up with a policy document within 30 days upon which the public should hold us accountable.

“You are going to get a different deal this time around. The deal has to be implementation, implementation and implementation.”

Moyo said Zimbabwe was noted for producing good policy documents but not implementing them. This was not going to be the case this time.

“This new policy is a results-oriented one. The policy is not about story telling narratives which show off the good English our bureaucrats have. It is more a specific implementation matrix where each cluster outlined is defined by key results which are time framed, based on quick wins where people have to see results now.”

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