Mugabe calls for rejection of 'British stooges'
Mugabe calls for rejection of 'British stooges'By George Chellah and Kingsley Kaswende in Harare, Zimbabwe
Sunday March 02, 2008 [09:02]
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has urged Zimbabweans to reject what he termed as bootlicking British stooges and political prostitutes in the forthcoming elections.
And President Mugabe expressed optimism that the ruling party would emerge victorious in next month's harmonised elections. During the official launch of the 2008 ZANU-PF election campaign manifesto at Harare’s Rainbow Towers Hotel, President Mugabe said ZANU-PF was a people oriented party.
"Do you put yourself first as an ambitious leader and the people after? If you do that you are a failure. If yesterday you could not join those young men who were going to fight for our independence. How come today you have the courage? How can the people trust you with their freedoms?" President Mugabe asked. "Am told those white farmers who were out of the country are now coming back, they think MDC is going to win. I have also heard (Simba) Makoni is saying we will have to review the land reform. What persons are these? You who are with us, I hope we trust you, the candidates...I hope we have cause to trust you. We speak for the people and shall always govern in their name.
"ZANU-PF is the only people's party, so let the people's voice thunder across the country on 29th March. Reject and damn the bootlicking British stoogies, traitors, political prostitutes and the two-headed political creatures. There are there those with two heads. Let the people's vote be the people's voice."
He said nobody could intimidate him on the Zimbabwean land issue.
"I don't see anyone here or anywhere else as preventing me from speaking for my people. On the story of Zimbabwe , there is no one who is greater than you. Not Blair, not Bush , Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans and not for Americans. Down with you Mr. Brown, down with you Mr Bush. And remember the gold and land in my country is mine, it belongs to Zimbabweans," President Mugabe said.
President Mugabe urged party members to vigorously campaign for their candidates.
"Are the people ready to vote for us in large numbers? I hope they are. If they are not, let us make them ready. We are embarking on an election campaign, we go fighting not physically but through word and deed. What have we done? and what have we said we will do? Did we do what we said we would do," President Mugabe asked. "We said lots of things, it was not cheap talk it was organized talk, the talk of programmes and projects. Where we have succeeded lets say so and where we have failed let us tell our people and why... and what we are doing about that."
President Mugabe said he was optimistic that ZANU-PF would emerge victorious on March 29.
"Today, it's exactly a month left and we have gathered here to mark a start of our march to another electoral victory. We certainly are going to win it's a margin we are trying to build through a strategy of that campaign. Organise the people and lets see where they are going to take us. Let us see if they are going to give us the voluminous victory that we expect," President Mugabe said. "Our manifesto is an embodiment of what is in us. But it becomes a successful manifesto only if what is in it is what the people expect from us. Let us be guided by our theme. What our theme looks at and what we have already as a gain of our independence, the land. What people would we be without the land? Now that we have it the duty is for us to defend and protect it but defending and protecting it, means making it productive."
He said mining has remained a closed sector in the country's economy.
"We don't get reports. Unless we are there as owners we will continue to be cheated, there is a lot of externalisation taking place. Right now, we are getting very little from gold. There is need for us to have an inspectorate that is effective," President Mugabe said. "We have already passed a law and that law will ensure that at least 51 per cent shares in this sector is ours. The majority of the mines are owned by white companies and they are the ones that are doing this externalisation so it's necessary that our minerals become ours."
Labels: ELECTIONS, MUGABE, NEOCOLONIALISM
posted by MrK @ 4:38 PM
2 Comments:
I'm sad to say i'm counting down the days to another Kenya style election result.
If Mugabe wins there will be no change to current veiws by western countries.
For the Highest Police commander to ORDER his officers to vote for Mugabe is a bit rough and dangerous.
Mr Scort,
It doesn't really matter what western countries views of Zimbabwe are, but that Zimbabwe has an economic and social system that is sustainable and guarantees it's social tranquility and economic independnce.
The opposition MDC want to turn back land reform, which means that they want to throw over 100,000 resettled farmers off their land.
That is the real threat of civil war in Zimbabwe.
Anything else can be worked out, but they have too many people wanting to see a restoration of the old colonial land distribution pattern working on their side.
In my honest opinion.
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