Zimbabwe -- Mugabe says he won't meet white farmers

SAPA-AP via SABC News (SA) ^ | July 20, 2002

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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe wrapped up his visit to Cuba yesterday saying he won't meet with white farmers who have had lands seized in his country's plan to redistribute property to landless blacks.

"The white farmers have channels" they can use without sitting down with their nation's president, Mugabe told a news conference. They can continue their talks about land redistribution with the nation's vice president, he said. "They are not satisfied with that level of authority," said Mugabe. "They think that by virtue of their being British and white they are more divine than anyone else." But the white farmers "are not super human beings," he added.

Zimbabwe's government has targeted about 95% of farms owned by the country's white minority for seizure, saying it wants to redistribute them among landless blacks. The often violent program of seizures has been condemned by Western governments and has contributed to widespread food shortages.

Mugabe has been increasingly the subject of international criticism and sanctions after his disputed re-election in March. As his popularity has waned, he has imposed curbs on journalists and opposition parties, and many critics have been attacked or threatened with prosecution. Mugabe, 78, has ruled Zimbabwe since it gained independence from Britain in 1980.

During Mugabe's four-day stay in Cuba, authorities agreed to continue providing medical personnel to Zimbabwe and to eventually provide the African country with any AIDS treatments successfully developed in Cuba in ongoing research. - Sapa-AP

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[fporretto]

Why has this man not yet been strung up from a lamppost? Hasn't black Africa learned from the examples of Idi Amin, Sekou Toure, Jean Bokassa, Kwame Nkrumah, Haile Mengistu Mariam, and Julius Nyere? Or does Zimbabwe have no unoccupied lampposts?

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Francis W. Porretto
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[BIGZ]

Mugabe wants money from the UN and United States?

What a Rrichard Noggin.

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[Guillermo]

Mugabe and Castro. 2 peas in a pod, both darlings of the Left.

[Lion Den Dan]

I could gleefully make a rug from Mugabe's hide, but it would only smell up the house.