26 In December 2000, he told the ZANU PF congress that the commercial farmers have “declared war” on the people of Zimbabwe. He said that the white man is “not indigenous” to Africa and is part of an “evil alliance.” He told his audience “we must continue to strike fear into the heart of the white man, our real enemy.” His audience replied with chants of “hondo” (war). “the courts can do whatever they want, but no judicial decision will stand in our way . . . My own position is that we should not even be defending our position in the courts. We cannot . . . brook interference court impediment to the land acquisition programme.” On the murdered white farmers: “For them to have banded together to the man in opposition to government, and for that matter to have gone much further in mobilizing, actually it’s coercing they labour forces, you see on the farms to support the one position to government has shown them, agh, exposed them as not our friends but enemies.” (Source: Film footage from film entitled Never the Same Again) “Let us bring home to the commercial farmers of the CFU that they have declared war against the people of Zimbabwe who have every determination to win it and will no doubt win that fight.” (Source: The Daily News, 14 December 2000.) “Their (the whites) demonstration of their support for Tsvangirai and others, and the fact of the rejection during the referendum of the draft constitution and all to the man, the whites voted against it.” (Source: Film footage from film entitled Never the Same Again) “They (MDC) are not themselves; they are agents of the white settlers, the Rhodesians have been organizing themselves clandestinely since 1980.” (Source: Film footage from film entitled Fighting for Rights.) “How can we support the MDC when you know the MDC was formed by the boers, Selous Scouts and Rhodesians who don’t want to be called Zimbabweans. They are aided by the British to disrupt the governing of our country.” (Source: Film footage from film entitled Fighting for Rights.) “Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, they must tremble…. The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans.” (Source: The Daily News, 15 December 2000.) Speaking in Bulawayo in September 2001 he said: “Yes, there are hardships, but if they (white industrialists) leave, it’s a good thing, because we will take over the companies. To those of you who support whites, we say down with you.” Speaking in September 2001 at a textile company, owned by a prominent Jewish family in Bulawayo he said, “Jews in South Africa, working in cahoots with their colleagues here, want our Their words condemn them: The language of violence, intolerance and despotism in Zimbabwe.