Mugabe: Zimbabwe is Mine

by Jordan Yerman | March 23, 2007 at 08:48 am

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Actually, Mugabe's actions have spoken for themselves in recent weeks/months/years. His insistence on keeping power has been demonstrated by the beatings, killings and arrests of those who dare speak out against him. Once again Mugabe relies on anti-colonial rhetoric to paint himself as Zimbabwe's defender.

Long-ruling Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Friday castigated opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai as being a stooge of the West and vowed he would never rule the country.

"Tsvangirai, you want to rule this country on behalf of [British Prime Minister Tony] Blair," Mugabe told hundreds of supporters at his party headquarters.

"As long as I am alive that will never happen."

He said Britain was using Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) as a front to re-colonise Zimbabwe in order to plunder the country's minerals.

"You [Tsvangirai] thought when I say I am 83, you could push me. It's a solid 83 years of experience and resilience and I know the tactics.

"We went to jail, we are hardened. Nothing frightens me. Someone wrote that I am a frightened man. Frightened by who? Little men like Blair. I have seen it all. I make a stand on principle; here I was born, here I stand and here I shall die."