27 textile and clothing factories to close down.” When these remarks drew accusations of antiSemitism, he refused to apologise. In an impromptu speech in Bulawayo city centre in September 2001, he urged people to back his bid to seize white-owned land and declared: “To those of you who support whites, we say down with you.” In February 2002, he said: “The problems with dealing with the Blair government is that it is a government made up of homosexuals and people who were the truant boys in high school. I wonder why this boy (Blair was called by that name, but his behaviour does not surprise me because his mind is like a Blair toilet.” (Source: The Chronicle, 2 February 2002) Speaking about the independent press in Zimbabwe, he said: “They are filthy tabloids, clearly of the gutter type are edited and run through fronts of young Africans that they have employed as puppet editors and reporters. In some cases these are also their homosexual partners, and this is true.” (Source: Film footage from film entitled Dancing Out of Tune) In February 2002, he said: “He challenged the Blair to parade his cabinet against that of Zimbabwe and said the Zimbabwean government had doctors, married man and women with families, while Blair had homosexual ministers. “We were laughing yesterday and saying was it lack of knowledge of biology that led these people to do what my dogs and pigs know. My dogs and pigs know which one is female and which one is male and it is never the other way among them.” (Source: The Sunday Mail, 3 February 2002.) In September 2002, he said: “These do not deserve to be in Zimbabwe and we shall take steps to ensure that they are not entitled to our land in Zimbabwe. These like (MDC MPs) Bennett and Coltart are not part of our society. They belong to Britain and let them go there. If they want to leave here we will say ‘stay’, but your place is in prison and nowhere else. Otherwise your home is outside this country…we say no to beggars and no to puppets. We have many puppets here in the MDC led by their leader. Even in Parliament they will listen to what their white master Coltart tells them to do. We said we don’t want that kind of partnership.” (Source: The Herald, 5 September 2002.) He has branded gays “un-Christian” and “un-African” and as “lower than pigs and dogs”. He attacks his gangster” boasting most and in hated blasting Shona that foreign him his for own enemy, Tony having cabinet Blair, by homosexuals is full of calling in his amadoda Their words condemn them: The language of violence, intolerance and despotism in Zimbabwe. him a cabinet sibili (real “gay while men)