28 who can distinguish between “Adam and Eve and Adam and Steve”. He once said, “Homosexuals have no rights whatsoever. If pigs and dogs don't do it, why must human beings?” Statement by Didymus Mutasa In September 2005, he said: “Operation Murambatsvina should also be applied to farms that are still in the hands of the whites. White farmers are dirty and should be cleaned out. The government will not hesitate to take their farms to resettle the black people who failed to get land during the distribution exercise. They (whites) are similar to the filth that was in the streets before Operation Murambatsvina.” (Source: The Standard, 18 September 2005.) Statement by Witness Mangwende “Where is rule of law Bennett?” “Flash (sic) Bennett into the blair toilet.” “We want the head of Bennett now.” “We do not want to see Bennett here. We are going to advise all the police that Bennett is no longer welcome here. He was lucky that we did not retaliate in the house, but if we see him walking the streets of Harare, we will revenge.” (Source: The Herald, 21 May 2004.) Statement from Vice-President Msika “Whites are not human beings . . .” (August 2001) Statement by Absalom Sikhosana, Secretary for Youth in the Politburo, “Youths have discovered the opposition for what it is; that it has nothing to offer a black person. …white men are deceitful. … We have managed to expose all the trickery of the white man.” (Source: The Chronicle 27 August 2001) Statement by Chen Chimutengwende “It is all racist, network of racists led by the Rhodesian Network International Inc. which is based in the US and with branches in Australia and other countries. They’re spearheading that and they have chosen MDC as their front.” (Source: Film footage from film entitled Never the Same Again) Statement by Elliot Manyika, ZANU PF Mashonaland Central Province chairman, and then later Minister of Youth, Gender and Employment Creation The youth training programme is “telling our youths that they must change their mind set … and not aspire to be a servant of the white man. Whites are going where they came from”. (Source: The Chronicle 27 August 2001) Their words condemn them: The language of violence, intolerance and despotism in Zimbabwe.

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