Mujuru admits to G40 liaisons
FORMER Vice President Joice Mujuru on Wednesday gave the clearest hint yet that her party could be working closely with the G40 cabal, saying she has no problem working with every openminded Zimbabwean under the People’s Rainbow Coalition Parties (PRCP) banner as long as the agenda was to dislodge the sitting Government.
She said her party was taking a separate route after their Memorandum of Understanding with MDC-T collapsed due to fundamental differences.
Dr Mujuru made the disclosure while responding to questions from journalists after she addressed meeting of little-known opposition parties in Gweru.
She admitted that she met former President Robert Mugabe before she went to a meeting in Pretoria where it is believed she met former G40 cabal kingpins, Professor Jonathan Moyo and Saviour Kasukuwere who are in self-imposed exile.
“Who am I to resist a call from a former Head of State? I met him (former President Mugabe) in my personal capacity and what we discussed there remains my secret.
“It was a private meeting, but the media has a tendency of formulating and fabricating stories,” she said.
When asked about the so called “Pretoria Declaration” and whether she was working with the former G40 cabal, Dr Mujuru, who was flanked by the coalition’s secretary-general Godern Moyo, skirted around the question.
“The Pretoria meeting? It was a strategic meeting as opposition parties whose agenda we cannot divulge to the media, but we will be making a follow-up meeting,” she said before handing over to Mr Moyo.
Mr Moyo said the Pretoria meeting was a “meeting of minds” where various opposition parties were in attendance.
“It was a meeting of the minds. A meeting where people realised that working together would deal a blow to the present illegitimate Government.
“We don’t have problems with anyone who wants to join us in our follow-up meeting as long as we share the same vision that this illegitimate Government should be removed in the next elections,” he said hinting that there would be another follow up meeting in Pretoria soon.
Mr Moyo, a former top official in MDC-T, blasted erstwhile colleagues in the MDC and MDC-T for visiting the US to seek the extension of sanctions.
“We saw some of our colleagues visiting the US sometime last year to seek the extension of sanctions, we are very angry of any Government which seeks to have sanctions against Zimbabwe maintained,” he said in reference to the visit to the US by the MDC-T alliance.
Commenting on relations with President Mnangagwa, Mrs Mujuru said she has no bad blood with the President after they waged the liberation struggle together.
“I respect him, we are both Zimbabweans, we are both from the struggle.
“I was hounded out of the Zanu-PF and everyone knows what happened, I don’t need to explain that. It was a lesson and I think everyone in the revolutionary party learnt from my experience,” she said.