Emmerson Mnangagwa wants Tsvangirai’s support to postpone polls, Jonathan Moyo tell BBC
Moyo, Zimbabwe’s former higher education minister wanted on charges of embezzling funds meant for tertiary institutions, is in self-imposed exile
Harare— Zimbabwe’s former higher education and tertiary minister Jonathan Moyo has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa visited ailing opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai last week, in a bid to seek his support to postpone elections by three years.General elections are due to take place either in July or August and will be the first, since independence in 1980, in which former President Robert Mugabe will not be participating.Moyo’s comments were made during an interview on BBC’s HardTalk with anchor Zeinab Badawi, on Thursday morning.This is the first time that Moyo has appeared in public since the resignation of Mugabe following a military-backed "soft coup" in November.Moyo is in self-imposed exile, at an undisclosed location. It had been thought that he had fled to Kenya — where his wife is originally from.The Kenyan government recently denied offering asylum to Moyo, who is wanted in Zimbabwe on allegations of corruption — in particular, the embezzling of funds meant for t...
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