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Activist pens daring Grace Mugabe book

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A KWEKWE-BASED human rights defender and democracy activist Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo (28) has penned a scathing book that traces First Lady Grace Mugabe’s rise to power and its implications on the ruling Zanu PF party.

A KWEKWE-BASED human rights defender and democracy activist Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo (28) has penned a scathing book that traces First Lady Grace Mugabe’s rise to power and its implications on the ruling Zanu PF party.

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Moyo, who is also the director of the Zimbabwe Organisation for Youth in Politics (ZOYP), said the 183-page book — which is broken down into seven chapters — was a “truth- telling book about Africa’s first female dictator” in the making.

Writing in his own capacity, Moyo contends it is tragic that Africa often blamed the West of its litany of woes when its own leaders are its greatest betrayers.

“The saddest tragedy of Africa is its betrayal by its own leaders. Africa it’s high time we stop blaming the West for our own mistakes,” he said.

He said the book is dedicated to the freedom fighters who participated in the country’s 1970s liberation struggle, but were later relegated to the dump heap by President Robert Mugabe and his wife.

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“To all former freedom fighters who sacrificed all they had fighting to liberate this country Zimbabwe, who were later on thrown into the dustbin in a post independent Zimbabwe after they were betrayed by [President] Robert Gabriel Mugabe and his wife, the ‘Iron Lady’ Grace Mugabe who is now the centre of power in the former revolutionary party Zanu PF,” he wrote on the book’s dedication page.

He said writing the book was not an easy task because the First Lady is now the current centre of power in Zanu PF.

“She has become a force to reckon with in the corridors of power within Zanu PF and Zimbabwe at large, for a few months if not a year after she actively joined politics, she has done enough to destroy her husband’s party Zanu PF,” he said.

He traces in the book how Grace’s rise to power and her divisive approach to politics paved way for the party’s fragmentation and the relegation of some of its co-founders into political wilderness.

“It is out of concern and love that I have decided to take the risk of telling Grace Mugabe the truth lest she sinks in this false glory which has saturated her atmosphere.

“This book is not to decampaign, defame or degrade her, but rather to openly give her true advice,” he said.