GADDAFI-- DRIVE ALL WHITES FROM AFRICA --*** Tunis - Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has urged Africans to drive white people out of the continent and make them pay compensation for their exploitation of it. "The white colonialists have no place in Africa and their presence is unlawful," said Gaddafi on Sunday, addressing a gathering of African women activists in Tripoli. Gaddafi, whose remarks were reported by the official Libyan news agency Jana monitored in Tunis, also urged Africans to rid themselves of the white person's cultural legacy, including language. ***
Mugabe would lose in any free and fair poll - Zimbabwe Arrests White Opposition Leader *** The MDC says 700 of its candidates have been barred from registering or intimidated from running in the polls. On Sunday it said it had received reports from various parts of the country showing the ruling ZANU-PF had stepped up violence to prevent Zimbabweans from voting freely. "Several MDC candidates and their agents have been blocked from entering the polling stations while some have been assaulted and a few have been reported missing," the MDC said.
Police and electoral officials said they had not received any reports of intimidation and Mugabe's ZANU-PF party dismissed the charges as "a pack of the usual lies." "The truth is that the MDC is frustrated at its failure to win the support of a majority of the people of this country," a ZANU-PF spokesman said. The allegations were also dismissed by Thomas Bvuma, a spokesman for the Electoral Supervisory Commission, who told Zimbabwe state radio the elections were going smoothly and the authorities had not received any complaints.
The MDC, which accuses Mugabe of stealing victory in a presidential election in March, says Mugabe has resorted to political violence in the council elections because he knows he would lose any free and fair poll. ***