Zimbabwe Quotes
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"(I support Mugabe) Because we have completed the process of decolonisation while Zimbabwe has not."
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Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.
simon hoggart— Hoggart's Guardian column 9 Feb 1980
People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.
— "Mugabe's hold on Africans". BBC News. 25 August 2007.
The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
robert mugabe— ibid.
We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood…. So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.
robert mugabe— Speech at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg (2 September 2002), quoted in John Battersby and Andrew Grice, "Anti-West anger at summit as Mugabe rounds on Blair", The Independent, 3 September 2002, p. 1.
I should make it clear that we do not accept that Britain has a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe. We are a new government from diverse backgrounds without links to former colonial interests. My own origins are Irish and, as you know, we were colonised, not colonisers.
clare short— 2008-04-15[1]
If Smith was a black man, I would say that he was the best Prime Minister that Zimbabwe ever had.
ian smith— Morgan Tsvangirai, Leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, 1999
Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.
ilana mercer— “The Genocide in Democratic South Africa,” WorldNetDaily.com, January 19, 2007;“The Kulaks of Democratic South Africa,” Free Market News Network, January 22, 2007.
Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.
— “The Genocide in Democratic South Africa,” WorldNetDaily.com, January 19, 2007;
— “The Kulaks of Democratic South Africa,” Free Market News Network, January 22, 2007.
Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? … What is lacking now are goods on the shelves—that is all.
robert mugabe— Interview with Heidi Holland (December 2007)
Cricket civilises people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
— Robert Mugabe, attributed in Helen Exley, Cricket Quotations (1992)
