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Robert Mugabe defends land grabs
Pakistan News.Net
Friday 25th September, 2009
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has defended his government’s confiscation of farmlands owned by whites.
“It was the best thing that could have ever have happened to an African country,” he told CNN during an interview on Thursday night.
Mugabe, 85, is in the United States for the UN General Assembly.
The Zimbabwean government has evicted thousands of white farmers from their land in recent years under what it terms its land reform program. This is despite the fact that the majority of white farmers that lost their land had been born in Zimbabwe.
"Zimbabwe belongs to the Zimbabweans, pure and simple," a defiant Mugabe told CNN. "They occupied the land illegally. They seized the land from our people," he said. Pointed out that most of the land owners evicted were born in Zimbabwe, the African leader said those farmers were descendents from Britain and British settlers had taken land from Zimbabweans during the Colonial era.
President Mugabe also took issue with South African Nobel Peace Prize winner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has referred to Mugabe as the caricature of an African dictator.
"He doesn't know what he's talking about, the little man," Mugabe told the CNN interviewer.  Email this story to a friend
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Anonymous
09-26-09, 12:21 AM |
Mugabe lauds land seizures
Redistribution of land was the only way to right the wrong of colonialism. Not only in Zimbabwe, all conquered nations should do that to benefit the local instead of the remnant of the previous master race. The west should meekly accept this for their past wrong doing.
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Anonymous
09-26-09, 12:31 AM |
Ndiwo magambazve aya
Long live comrade Mugabe. Mabhunu akazomboita ma Zimbo riniko.Taurei zvenyu comrade.
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Vervit
09-26-09, 03:26 AM |
They are well known as thieves across Africa and now the world
Its like the guy who goes and blows him self up for a belief, We dont get it.... My personal view is let them shoot them selves in the feat, repeatedly. Maybe one day they will figure it out for them selves.
Poooorr little Zimbabweans, you cant help fealing sorry for them, they have to use some one else’s money now. Taurei Zvenyu comrade. Long live comrade
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Jays
09-26-09, 02:49 PM |
Sick and tired of you
Where is Zimbabwe now when you say this is the right thing.It’s now time for you to be out of the presidency.
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nregistered
09-26-09, 03:35 PM |
Africa is a mess
No matter how anyone tries to paint it as a problem the Western powers created the truth is every state in Africa is now a failure.
Zimbawae was a major food exporter and the breadbasket of Africa now it’s a smoldering ruin of starvation and death.
What changed????
The white farmers got booted and the land was given back to the uneducated ....... and now they all starve.
South Africa Major exporter of goods, food and services!
Given back the natives and now they are starving, produce nothing and have the dubious distinction of being the child rape capitol of the world.
Hey dummies before tossing the evil whiteman out you might want to make sure you can produce something to replace what they made.
Africa a rich diverse continent boasts the most uneducated starving people on the planet.
The plague visited upon Africa took the form of the people themselves.
Shame and no amount of aid or money will change the basic fact these people are to tribal to actually make it into the century much less the last one.
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