Zimbabwe -- Mugabe accepts blame for famine

Daily News (Zim) ^ | August 29, 2002

[Clive]

President Mugabe on Tuesday accepted blame for the current food shortages, but in the same breath ordered white farmers resisting forced evictions from their properties to leave the country.

Mugabe told his supporters at Triangle in Chiredzi, Masvingo province, the country had not prepared for the food disaster and regretted the shortages of basic commodities.

Mugabe said: “We were caught unaware and next time we should not be found wanting if a similar drought occurs.

“We had not realised that we could have a winter crop here, but the drought has taught us a lesson. No one had any idea whether the crop would be good or not, but we just tried.”

After addressing the rally in Chiredzi, Mugabe went to Gibbon Stadium where he said white commercial farmers resisting eviction must leave the country.

He said there would be no negotiations on the land issue.

Mugabe said: “If white commercial farmers want to stay in this country they should leave the whole issue to us, so that we can give them portions of land.

“Those who are not willing to do so should leave the country.

“Whether they want to leave by road, by bicycles, or on foot or by air we will show them the way.” Mugabe described white farmers as “totemless” people who should not dictate to the indigenous people.

His remarks are against the background of scores of white farmers being ordered to move off their properties. Some have pending cases in the courts for allegedly contravening Section 8 of the Land Acquisition Act which gave effect to the evictions.

Mugabe launched his customary attack on British Prime Minister Tony Blair, describing him as gay.

He said the opposition MDC was a party of lesbians and gays.

Mugabe said all factories shut by their owners would be investigated thoroughly, claiming some of them stopped production to force him out of power.

“We want to know if they closed down due to viability problems or because they wanted people to be out of employment so that they would revolt against me.

“We are going to take over some of these factories and give them to the workers,” he said.

Earlier, Mugabe toured the Lowveld where a winter maize crop is being grown on over 1,800 hectares of land.

The land was seized from Triangle, Hippo Valley and Mkwatsine estates.

The winter maize project is the brainchild of Masvingo Provincial Governor Josaya Hungwe.

Some shops in the agricultural town of Triangle were ordered to close to allow people to attend Mugabe’s rally.

[Clive]

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[cricket]

"Mugabe said: “We were caught unaware and next time we should not be found wanting if a similar drought occurs"

. . .surely there must be a special place in hell with his name on it.

[shaggy eel]

Mugabe launched his customary attack on British Prime Minister Tony Blair, describing him as gay.

He said the opposition MDC was a party of lesbians and gays.

Mugabe said all factories shut by their owners would be investigated thoroughly, claiming some of them stopped production to force him out of power.

“We want to know if they closed down due to viability problems or because they wanted people to be out of employment so that they would revolt against me.

“We are going to take over some of these factories and give them to the workers,” he said.

,,, for certain, the advanced symptoms of tertiary stage syphilis.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Clive, what a shame the War on Terror isn't colourblind.

[xJones]

or certain, the advanced symptoms of tertiary stage syphilis.

That is a real possibility, but there is no one to take the looney out.

[Mike Darancette]

... ordered white farmers resisting forced evictions from their properties to leave the country.

Isn't that Ethnic Cleansing, and punishable the ICC?

[shaggy eel]

,,, this idiot races around the countryside deciding what he'll personally plunder for himself and his relatives. I think his brains could be spread over his Benz 600 a lot easier than Gaddafi's could if someone decided to commit to it.

[ChadGore]

Re:“We are going to take over some of these factories and give them to the workers,” he said.

Stalin, Castro, and Chavez would be proud of this nutball.

[xJones]

Yes, but now comes the test of the West, and of all those intelligent black Africans. Will anyone have the guts to take the 78 year-old looney and his goons out and save Zimbabwe, or will PC rule? And if nobody takes the old buggerer out, guess who all won.

[shaggy eel]

guess who all won?

,,, Gaddafi.

[xJones]

Reagan, at least, went after Gaddafi, too bad the bomb missed. It kept Qaddifi in his hole for many years. I've read about Gaddafi's recent trip to South Africa. What a hoot! Not to mention the on-going UN conference in SA about saving the earth, while chowing down on lobster, pates, and hundreds of pounds of other rich goodies, while the poor they're talking about stand outside. This is like the 1930's, the world's gone mad again and all do to Marxist-left wingers without a brain in their "collective" head.

[shaggy eel]

,,, exactly! Saw that account you're mentioning.

[Lancey Howard]

A laughing out loud bump.

Thanks for the update. Following these Zimbabwe stories from day to day is like watching a toilet load swirling, swirling, slowly and relentlessly swirling out of sight forever.

[PhilDragoo]

"Accepts blame"--not.

This madman destroyed farm production in his racist jihad.

And blames "this drought".

And now will take over factories and "give them to the workers".

Mugabe must die, and the sooner the better.
By bullet, or bomb, or anthrax in a letter.
To save the lives of six million, take that of one.
Send Richard Simmons to give him a lap dance--aneurism--he's done.

Get Mugabe out of the building. No aid, no IMF--just do the MF.

[TheyConvictedOglethorpe]

I think it was H.L. Mencken who said "even the most ruthless tyrant has but one throat to cut."

[Valin]

It's like watching a slow-motion train wreck.

[Valin]

Mugabe said: “We were caught unaware and next time we should not be found wanting if a similar drought occurs.

drought? is there a drought?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

What a bunch of bs.