“One of the major objectives of the liberation struggle was to evict the white settlers from the land since they had the option of going back to their countries of origin,” said. Mugabe told the children that blacks had to regain the land robbed from their parents by whites.
“Unemployment to us is not as statistics would want people to believe. Those in town are double dwellers as they have a plot elsewhere from which they can make a living. Kana usina munda wekurima aaa hameno unenge uyine kwawakabva,” said Mugabe, pointing out that children should be educated about the country’s history, the current situation and the future.
The children were told that Zimbabwe’s detractors, who were white, would only work for the betterment of the country on condition that blacks address them as boss.
Analysts said Mugabe’s hate speech was not good for children. Zechariah Mushawatu, a respected political analyst, said racial segregations should have no place in the 21st Century. “Zanu (PF) should not target a single race, especially given that some Chinese own farms here,” he said.
Charles Taffs, president of the Commercial Farmers Union, said if land ownership was defined on racial grounds then the country had a problem.
“What Mugabe is saying is a far cry from what he said in 1980, which was that everyone had the right to land regardless of race. It is now sad to note that issues to do with business and farming activities are determined by race,” said Taffs.
Zimbabwe had some 4,000 commercial farmers before the land invasions began in early 2000. The white population had reached its peak of 296,000 peak in 1975. It dropped to 120,000 in 1999 before slipping to an estimated 50,000 in 2002.
Mugabe has been quoted at several fora venting anger at whites. “Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white men, they must tremble…The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans…The white man is part of “an evil alliance,” Mugabe was quoted as saying at the Zanu (PF) congress in December 2000.
Back in 1986, he was quoted saying the only language that the Mabhunu (whites) would understand is the language of the gun: “The more you kill, the nearer you get to your objectives.”
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Now we hear it from number one economy chifukuto Mugabe . White or black we are all zimbabweans remember we fought to remove the bad system of the white not to chase them away or take away their rights as zimbabweans and human beings any one who does that must have his head examined.
Every Zimbabwean with Zim ID or Passport should be afforded equal opportunity in Zimbabwe. Regardless of tribe or race….if you are born in Zimbabwe by Zimbabwean constitutional law(the new constitution which Zanu promoted)you are deemed indigenous…some are not more equal than others….its one love comrades….Read Micah 2v1-2 pertaining to current land issue in Zim….”what sorrow awaits you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry them out, simply because you have the power to do so. When you want a piece of land, you find a way to seize it. when you want someone’s house, you take it by fraud and violence. You cheat a man of his property, stealing his family’s inheritance” Thus says the Lord in Micah 2 v1 and 2…..All land in Zim was bought and paid for, after independence if you wanted to buy or sell land a certificate of no interest was issued by Zimbabwean government…pre 2000 there was and still is plenty state owned land lying idle. This could be utilized by large commercial cooperations to grow food for the nation, instead it is left idle and families houses and farms are stolen and handed to only politically connect people not the average Joes in Zim…We now hear of some more equals taking over 12 farms and other more equals owning farms at age 10 years?????eish comrades?
It is a tragedy that Sally Mugabe was taken from her people, because here in the Diaspora many believe that until that moment, he was the perfect President in a perfect land. But surely his hurt and anger stem not from Britain, but from that time he was incarcerated by the Rhodesians, when the white man, (epitomized in the form of Ian D Smith), dished out to him the worst possible punishment in stopping him from attending his 4-year-old son’s funeral in Ghana. Instead, his beloved Sally, the future silent stalwart of the Nation, had to bury their only child alone. Alright, he wasn’t the only one to be subjected to such spitefulness, but no one else was destined to be the life-long President of Zimbabwe either. I read in Exodus 20:5 that the sins of the father shall be visited upon the children… so now all whites must suffer?