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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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