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President Mugabe: Zimbabwe won’t collapse

Sunday Sep 23, 2007 – By Clutch

mugabeinyellow1.jpgHARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - President Robert Mugabe, accusing the West of trying to push Zimbabwe into collapse, declared it would survive thanks to its people’s resilience and support from Africa, state radio reported. Mugabe said Britain, the former colonial ruler, and his opponents sought his ouster.

“In spite of their heinous attempts to destroy the country and bring down its democratically elected government, Zimbabwe has not collapsed and will not collapse,’” the radio quoted him as saying at a state banquet recently for visiting President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of the oil-rich West African nation of Equatorial Guinea.

Mugabe thanked Equatorial Guinea and other African nations for their “solidarity.” He told President Obiang Zimbabwe would always be grateful for his support against enemies who “sought to demonize the country’s leadership at every opportunity and deceive the world about what is happening in my country.” Mugabe said his nation had not come to a standstill because of what he called “the resilience and revolutionary spirit of the Zimbabwean people.”

Western countries have imposed a travel ban on Mugabe and ruling party leaders to protest violations of democratic and human rights, following the government ordered, often violent seizures of thousands of White-owned commercial farms that began in 2000 and disrupted the agriculture-based economy. Some U.S. enterprises are barred from trading with Zimbabwe.

Foreign loans, development aid and investment have dried up in seven years of political and economic turmoil in the former regional breadbasket. Zimbabwe is facing the world’s highest official inflation of 7,634 percent, though independent estimates put real inflation closer to 25,000 percent. The International Monetary Fund has forecast inflation reaching 100,000 percent by the end of the year, prompting some predictions of economic collapse and Mugabe’s departure from office.

Cornmeal, bread, meat and most staples have disappeared from the shelves since a government edict June 26 to slash prices of all goods and services by about half in efforts to tame inflation. Acute shortages of gasoline have crippled transport and delivery services. The food shortages have spurred illegal black market trading in scarce goods sold at more than four times the government’s fixed prices. Stores were mostly left with a few canned foodstuffs. Bathsoap, toothpaste, biscuits and tea were among the latest goods to disappear. Equatorial Guinea President Obiang arrived in Harare recently and was scheduled to officially open the country’s main agriculture show in the capital.

Officials at the showground said the government allowed pricing controls to be lifted for a single livestock auction that was part of the show. State media has given prominence to this year’s show, arguing farming is reviving. Amid Zimbabwe’s growing international isolation, the government and distant Equatorial Guinea have signed an extradition treaty and a series of trade and cooperation deals since a group of mercenaries plotting to overthrow President Obiang were arrested in 2004 when their plane landed in Harare to collect weapons from the Zimbabwe state arms maker.

Source: AP & The Final Call

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  1. ceecee ceecee says:

    Mugabe makes me soooooooo angry! of course to him Zimbabweans aren’t suffering that badly when his pockets are lined thickly with the country’s money!

    His people are risking their lives illegaly crossing the border to S.A in search of food while he entertains presidents and goes to conferences in 1st class jet.

  2. Chloe Chloe says:

    Mugabe has been unfairly characterized and demonized by the western press because he dared to throw out their colonial oppressors. Whites seized millions of acres of Zimbabwe’s most arable land for themselves and set up plantation systems where the natives were forced to work for paltry wages. Most lived in poverty. Mugabe returned that land to his people and the farmers and rural citizens are grateful for his reforms. Meanwhile, the US and Britain are doing everything to support the opposition movement and are actively trying to overthrow him….anything to get back into the country and resume control. The Zimbabweans who oppose Mugabe are sorely mistaken if they think their quality of life will improve under a puppet ruler and the old colonial plantation system.

  3. Morayo Morayo says:

    All the same, Chloe, I don’t think Zimbabweans are doing too well under Mugabe. This is not a Coke/Pepsi dilemma – which you seem to be insinuating with your last sentence, “The Zimbabweans who oppose Mugabe are sorely mistaken if they think their quality of life will improve under a puppet rule and the old colonial plantation system,”i.e. “Why bother to change leadership, life won’t get any better.”

    Well, it is assured that as long as Mugabe is in charge life won’t get any better. He’s ripping pages out of the biographies of African and Western dictators – shutting down press, overprinting tons of currency, all while highlighting the terrifying specter of the West. Unfortunately, the enemy is an African one and mimics his every movement in the mirror.

  4. todd kidd todd kidd says:

    Long live Mugabe—–the hell what Mandela. Black people should be allowed to choose their own leader.

  5. Candra Candra says:

    Mugabe is one of the worst leaders on the African continent. He regime is democratic only in name–in practice: he routinely denies life, liberty, and property. So, the problem is not how Mugabe has been portrayed…but, how the world has let this dictator [let's call the man what he is] go without enough international reprisal.

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