Zim GBC News | Political Correspondent
In what political analysts are calling a breathtaking piece of political theatre, exiled academic Professor Jonathan Moyo finds himself at the centre of secret negotiations with the very government he once urged the world to shun.
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi made a clandestine dash to Nairobi last week for high-stakes talks with Moyo, sources have confirmed, just days after the government launched a controversial push for constitutional amendments that could extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule to 2030.
The trip saw Ziyambi abruptly cancel his scheduled appearance at the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. A leaked itinerary reveals the minister flew out of Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport on a Kenya Airways Boeing 737, landing at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Friday evening. He returned to Harare at 1:05pm yesterday, leaving Attorney-General Virginia Mabiza to represent Zimbabwe in Geneva.
The meeting marks a staggering reversal for Moyo, who has spent years attacking Mnangagwa’s administration from the relative safety of Kenyan exile. Only recently, the former information minister used his X platform to rain down fire and brimstone upon the President, branding the 2017 transition a “criminal junta” and describing the administration as “illegitimate” while mobilising a digital resistance under the banner of #ZanuPFMustGo.
Yet today, the wind has shifted—and so has the professor.
In the volatile laboratory of Zimbabwean politics, Moyo remains the most curious specimen. A man of undisputed intellectual candlepower, he has spent three decades attempting to engineer the lightning of history, only to find himself repeatedly struck by it.
His career is not merely a chronicle of shifting allegiances; it is a masterclass in the art of the ill-timed leap. For a man who prides himself on being the ultimate strategist, Moyo possesses a singular, almost supernatural talent for catching the tide just as it begins to recede.
The Nairobi talks come amid mounting controversy over proposed constitutional changes that would stretch presidential terms and alter the electoral system—reforms that have sparked intense debate across the political spectrum. Neither Ziyambi nor Moyo has commented on the purpose of their meeting, but insiders suggest it may signal a broader realignment ahead of the 2030 political succession battles.
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