Staff Reporter

Exiled former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has lashed out at those who were recently peddling the lie that colonial rule in Zimbabwe was better than the current Government.

In a tweet yesterday, Professor Moyo said those who wish the return of the white settlers rule in Zimbabwe were politically and ideologically bankrupt.

“The propaganda that Ian Douglas Smith was better in whatever way is a grotesque sanitisation of colonialism and is emblematic of an acute case of ideological bankruptcy,” said Prof Moyo.

Professor Moyo added that the opposition leaders should call their supporters to order and direct them not to glorify Smith’s brutality.

“Of course they are gratuitously glorifying Ian Smith all over the place, shamelessly so, without let or hindrance; and the fact that their leaders are not calling them to order is a clear and present manifestation of poor and ideologically bankrupt leadership,” added Moyo.

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary general Charlton Hwende concurred with Professor Moyo and described Smith as a dog.

“Smith hated black people.  He killed our people simply because they were black. To me he was just a dog not worth of my respect. My grandparents were killed by smith for simply being black. Kumwa ndomwa hangu but handirasike to glorify a racist murderer like Smith. Smith’s goal was to create an economy and country only for white people. He killed blacks for simply being black and that was wrong,” said Hwende.

Hwende added that the ZANU PF led Government in all its alleged failures will never match that of Smith and his Government. He added that Smith was evil as he brutalised and subjected black Zimbabweans to harsh working conditions.

The National Patriotic Front member, Jealous Masarira, added that Smith was an extremist murderer who should not be respected by right thinking Zimbabweans.

Meanwhile, there was a plot allegedly being sponsored by the country’s detractors to portray the New Dispensation as a failure. This false narrative is allegedly being spearheaded by paid social media activists under the instructions of the US Embassy in Harare.