Posted on 12/19/2008 8:21:23 AM PST by NormsRevenge
BINDURA, Zimbabwe (AFP) President Robert Mugabe declared Friday that "Zimbabwe is mine" and vowed never to surrender to calls to step down, as his political rival threatened to quit stalled unity government talks.
Addressing his ZANU-PF party's annual conference amid a ruinous political crisis and a deadly cholera epidemic, Mugabe returned to the kind of defiance he has often shown in the face of mounting criticism.
"I will never, never, never never surrender. Zimbabwe is mine, I am a Zimbabwean. Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans. Zimbabwe never for the British, Britain for the British," Mugabe told his party's annual conference.
The veteran leader in the former British colony said he would remain until "his people decide to change him."
While the comments struck a familiar tone for the 84-year-old leader -- he said earlier this year that only God could remove him from office -- he now faces increasingly grim circumstances in his crippled country.
The UN says more than 1,100 people have died in the cholera epidemic, adding to woes such as food shortages and poverty as Zimbabwe struggles with a collapsed economy and eye-popping inflation rates.
Mugabe denounced Western governments who have been stepping up their criticism of his regime since the outbreak of cholera.
"What a pack of lies," he said, adding that Zimbabwe was facing a war with Britain, supported by the United States and Europe.
"I won't be intimidated. Even if I am threatened with beheading, I believe this and nothing will ever move me from it: Zimbabwe belongs to us, not the British."
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Every country in sub-saharan Africa (except, maybe, for Botswana) is a prime example of “King Midas in reverse.” Angola, Congo and Zimbabwe (and soon, sadly South Africa) are stellar examples of this.
Chinese are busy doing that already!
LOL, is somebody fighting him for it??
What you list are the outcomes of one frame of mind -- tribalism. They warred and killed each other off before the colonization and when the colonial controls were removed they reverted back to their fight for power. Before colonialism the various tribes made scant use of the natural resources there other than the triving centers of slavery and now that the evil europeans are gone once again making use of their natural resources is secondary to which tribe rules.
Except North Africa,but that’s an extension of the middle east
Mugabe has gone from being a racist nutjob to an anti-human nutjob.
oh, don’t worry, China and India will colonize Africa soon enough....
If there weren’t so many girly-men in-charge in the world, this monster would be dead by now.
Very good point — the white Zimbabweans are as much a part of the land as the blacks
Good point — north of the Sahara, Northern AFrica has always been part of the Mediterranean world — right from the time of the CArthaginians and Jugurtha. Ethiopia too has always been part of the wider Eurasian world — they even speak a Semitic language, were mentioned in the OT and NT and are among the first Crhistian nations in the world (along with Armenia) — way before Western Europe.
Kenya gags Obama’s extended family
Punch, Nigeria | Dec. 20, 2008 | Punch, NIgeria from AllAfrica.com
Posted on 12/20/2008 1:25:27 PM PST by FocusNexus
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