Professor Jonathan Moyo In A Heated Twar With South Africa’s Tito Mboweni
What we want to know at this point is who introduced twitter to our Information, Media and Broadcasting Prof Jonathan Moyo? The social media platform has become the Minister’s playground, with harsh replies that always fit in 140 characters, Professor Moyo never shies away from a debate.
This time the Minister took a few jabs on another politician, South Africa’s former Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni after he tweeted this, “I hate dictators. They complicate our lives! We need democracy in Africa. Get these old people out of office. Time for the under 50s now!!”
Oh no he didn’t! He should have known better than to insult Zimbabwe in front of Prof Moyo. Despite not being tagged, the Professor took it personally and went on a twitter rant in a number of tweets.
The professor got mad when Mboweni called him noisy and irritating. There goes the Professor.
1. “Losing sleep over the @tito–mboweni exuberant rant linking dictatorship with old age was not an option. But he won’t go unchallenged!”
2. “History has many examples of young & old dictators to expose link of dictatorship with old age by @tito_mboweni as a rant of a charlatan!”
3. ‘The exuberant rant by @tito_mboweni linking dictatorship with old age is ahistorical, ideologically bankrupt & intellectually dishonest!
4. “Democracy yes, Youth Power yes but no to the exuberant rant by drawing an infantile link between dictatorship & old age!”
5. “Linking dictatorship with old age is the latest example of the open mouth & shut mind politics of Uncle Toms in Africa today!”
6. “The exuberant rant by @tito_mboweni linking dictatorship with old age boggles the mind how such an irrational mind was a Bank Governor!”
Word is these two have been at it since 2001 and we don’t see them being friends anytime soon.
