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(TALKZIMBABWE) Counter divide and rule tactics, urges Mugabe

Counter divide and rule tactics, urges Mugabe
Floyd Nkomo
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:15:00 +0000

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on Tuesday accused western states of using "sinister efforts" to divide Zimbabwe and urged Zimbabweans to counter such tactics.

"Allegations of gross abuses of human rights or failure to respect good governance have provided fodder for the West and its media, as they repeatedly seek blemishes to stick onto our country," he told a public holiday rally gathered to mark the Zimbabwe Defence Forces day.

"Even now, having received Southern African Development Community and indeed the African Union support for an inclusive Government to which Zimbabweans have committed themselves, our detractors, the same old detractors, continue with their sinister efforts to divide us."

President Mugabe's address followed a similar address on Monday in which he lashed out against "former imperialist and racist colonisers" whom he also accused of seeking to divide Zimbabwe.

"The peace and stability we enjoy have angered our detractors as they have sought, desperately and without good reason, to find wrong-doing on our part," President Mugabe said Tuesday at the event.

He added that the country's security services had been hit by the economic crisis and illegal Western sanctions but had managed to partner local firms to manufacture equipment and spares while redistributed farms would be used to supplement rations.

"The defence forces are utilising their farms to supplement their ration allocations from the fiscus (treasury). This is a positive development which I hope will be pursued to higher levels," President Mugabe said.

Labels: MUGABE, NEOCOLONIALISM

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