(NEWZIMBABWE) I’m the ‘Hitler of our time’: Kasukuwere

Monday, April 09, 2012

(NEWZIMBABWE) I’m the ‘Hitler of our time’: Kasukuwere

I’m the ‘Hitler of our time’: Kasukuwere
09/04/2012 00:00:00
by Staff Reporter

INDIGENISATION minister, Saviour Kasukuwere has said he’s the “Hitler of our time” for forcing foreign-owned companies to sell or cede 51 percent of their shares to black Zimbabweans. Kasukuwere said he’s seeking justice for his people and a restoration of their rights over the country’s resources. Quoting remarks made by President Robert Mugabe when he dismissed Western media comparisons with the former Nazi leader Kasukuwere said:

“I am still the Hitler of the time.

“This Hitler has one objective, justice for his people, recognition of independence of his people and their right to resources. If that is Hitler, let me be a Hitler tenfold.”

Kasukuwere – from Mugabe’s Zanu PF party -- has been involved in a public spat Prime Minister and MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai over the country’s indigenisation programme.

The minister announced last week that the state had taken over control of all mining companies which either failed to submit plans for complying with Zimbabwe’s empowerment laws or had their proposals rejected by the government.
Tsvangirai intervened and told Kasukuwere that he did not have the authority to unilaterally seize private companies.

“The minister’s statement poses a real risk of creating anarchy in the industry and the PM will take corrective measures within the proper fora and channels of Government,” Tsvangirai said.

“The Prime Minister would like to inform mining entities that, should anyone or any institution be it private or public, attempt to enforce minister Kasukuwere’s pronouncements, they would be doing so unlawfully and without the mandate of the Inclusive Government.”

But Kasukuwere remained defiant and dismissed Tsvangirai as “a courier” of British Prime Minister David Cameron

“In the past few days, MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has sought to abuse his role in government to undermine the laws of our country,” Kasukuwere said in a statement published by the Herald.

“He has brought us a tired legal opinion written by white supremacists in Whitehall and those still in Salisbury, seeking to overturn the empowerment programme.

“We have had enough time to play and we are determined and will not, even for a moment, waste our precious time sitting down and listening to their masters speak through them.”

Labels: INDIGENIZATION AND EMPOWERMENT ACT (ZIMBABWE), ROBERT MUGABE, SAVIOUR KASUKUWERE