ZANU-PF also through Sakunda imported very slightly less grand Toyota Land Cruiser VX 200 models worth $5m for former ministers who had been redeployed to the ruling party including: Patrick Chinamasa Obert Mpofu Sydney Sekeremayi David Parirenyatwa Christopher Mushowe Simon Khaya-Moyo Simbarashe Mumbengegwi and Mike Bimha...
At that time he asked the then Energy Minister Simon Khaya Moyo to resume talks with MOGS on the project that had collapsed after Dzikamai Mavhaire became Energy Minister in 2013 (AC Vol 54 No 19 Sakunda fuels rumours)...
Other resolutions consolidated the President's hold over the party such as the new requirement that all party information be communicated only through the Secretary for Information and Publicity currently Simon Khaya Moyo...
On 19 July Simon Khaya Moyo was fired as party spokesperson and replaced by Paul Mangwana...
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Information Minister Simon Khaya Moyo then announces that Mnangagwa had shown 'traits of disloyalty disrespect and unreliability'...
ZANU-PF Secretary for Information Simon Khaya Moyo said the government wants to reaffirm 'the primacy of politics over the gun'...
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The then National Chairman Simon Khaya Moyo a Mujuru loyalist was demoted to party Spokesman...
The last Chairman Simon Khaya Moyo who was an aide to the late Joshua Nkomo during Zimbabwe's liberation war was demoted to the position of Party Secretary for Information...
One of his first tasks will be to soothe tempers frayed by Phelekezela Mphoko who emerged from obscurity last year to become one of the two national vice-presidents a job Simon Khaya Moyo believes should have been his were he not thought too close to Mujuru (AC Vol 56 No 1 The year of leaving dangerously)...
These developments pitted Ignatius Chombo the party's Secretary for Administration and the First Lady against Kasukuwere who was backed by Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Simon Khaya Moyo...
This is an immensely powerful post in the party made even more so by the simultaneous abolition of the post of national chairperson previously held by Mujuru friend Simon Khaya Moyo...
