ZANU PF Baying for Gono’s Blood

Top Zanu PF officials, including government ministers are reportedly plotting the ouster of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono for opposing the controversial Indigenisation and empowerment law.

In an interview with the weekly Financial Gazette last week, Gono blasted the indigenisation law claiming that it was a conduit for well connected people to invade and destroy firms. He said the end result would be that there will be no production in the companies the same way some people invaded productive land during land reform and now they are failing to produce anything. Gono further argued that the controversial indeginisation law scares away much needed foreign investors. But Gono’s views are said to have been met with anger by some Zanu PF officials who are now baying for his blood “Gono has gone too far this time around because he is speaking the language you hear from the MDC. A few years ago, Gono tarnished our image saying we were not producing on the acquired land, and he attacked government for price controls but now he has really gone over the top."

The other links below deal with the return of Zuma’s team to Harare trying to break the political impasse, and the increasing harassments and arrests with ZANU PF targeting the organizers of a photo exhibition and MDC activists.