(TALKZIMBABWE) No more opposition to Govt - Mugabe
No more opposition to Govt - MugabeRanganai Chidemo
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:13:00 +0000
Zimbabwe President Robert Gabriel Mugabe giving a speech at the funeral of Mrs Susan Tsvangirai, the wife of the Zimbabwean Prime Minister who died in a crash.
PRESIDENT Mugabe says the inclusive Government is working smoothly as there is currently no opposition in the country.
Speaking after a high-level meeting with visiting Norwegian Minister of Environment and International Development Erik Solheim President Mugabe said although the inclusive Government was facing some challenges it was working smoothly.
"At the moment, we feel in partnership with those who have joined the Government. It (inclusive Government) is smoothly running, it is now in our rhythm. It’s like tradition," said President Mugabe.
"We no longer have an opposition and we are working together towards the same goals we have set as a Government."
Norway, which is not a member of the EU, has no sanctions against Zimbabwe.
President Mugabe said Zimbabweans with differing political views had a tradition of working together adding that this was not the first time Zimbabwe has had a coalition government.
"In 1980, even though Zanu PF had won the elections, we included four ministers from Ian Smith’s party. At the moment I am working with Prime Minister Tsvangirai as my brother," he said.
The president said the inclusive Government faced various challenges.
"We face a challenge to establish peace among the people, for them to work together and avoid violence," he said adding that the inclusive Government needed capital investment to get the mines and industry to work again.
"The main challenge for the inclusive Government is to get the economy to improve, turning it around," he added.
He said the economic sector needed revival in order to harness the country's rich resources.
"We also want the economic sector to become viable, our factories to get moving and the mines to start producing the various minerals found in the country," he said.
He, however, said while Zimbabwe was in need of foreign aid; it must come on Zimbabwe's terms.
"We have had amendments to our laws but there are still some countries that have set conditions for them to give aid.
"That is what they have always done but we would want to say if it comes, it must come in friendly terms, we must be equal in status and we do not have to go on our knees for them. We only do that for one person and that person is up there (God)," he said.
President Mugabe said the land reform program was irreversible, as it was a constitutional matter and was the reason the liberation struggle was fought.
"When we were negotiating before independence, we agreed with the British that there shall be a land reform programme.
"It also has to do with the right of the people to land, a decolonisation of the country," he said.
The president said the British must respect Zimbabwe’s sovereignty even if they want to assist the inclusive Government.
"If they do not accept that we are a sovereign country, they can still go hang," he said.
Labels: MUGABE, NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT
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