11 The rest of the country, which surrounds them (urban dwellers). You are the ones who won and rule in those areas). Let them dwell in their islands of Harare and Bulawayo. They are a closed island. If they move out of Harare where do they go? Can Harare produce maize? All the food -- cabbages and even onions -come from Goromonzi and some from Seke. So the people of Harare should know where their livelihood comes from. Not the sugar that has confused them. I have never heard that sugar intoxicates people”. (Source: ZBC 2/04/2002 transcribed by the Media Monitoring Project, Zimbabwe.) In May 2002, he said: “We will not tolerate the nonsense and rubbish that preceded the election, … that was allowed in the past; that freedom to get people into the streets to destroy homes and destroy businesses will not be there in future. Never! Never! Never shall we allow that to happen. Secondly, they think they can take to violence, which may be one and the same thing as mass action, but this number two is an option that is accepted by the MDC and we warn them here that ZANU PF, which is ruling today comprises a membership and leadership that has gone to the school of both war and peace. … When there are forces that want to take to war, to violence, they will be dealt with effectively and we will deal effectively ... There won’t be any nonsense about that anymore. They of course think that their masters will come to their rescue. We are revolutionaries and when we are called to act by the demand of the situation we will act truly and faithfully to the principle that force can only be dealt with by force. We have done it in the past. That’s how we brought about the liberation of the country. If there are those amongst them who want to talk peace we are open. We say ‘Yes’, if you want to talk peace. So there it is. Our neighbours have been saying it’s all better for us to go into talks. Let them come) and they started talking nonsense that ZANU PF is on its knees. I’m on my feet. Two feet.” (Source: ZBC 18 May 2002 – transcript from Media Monitoring Project – Zimbabwe.) In May 2002, he said: “They have also thought of violence and we as ZANU PF warn them that ZANU PF, which is ruling today, comprises of people who have gone to the school of war and peace. They will be dealt with effectively and they won’t be any nonsense about that anymore. If called upon by the demands of the situation to do some thing, we will do it effectively…. Morgan Tsvangirai has no revolutionary thinking.” (Source: The Sunday Mail, 19 May 2002.) Addressing ZANU PF youths at ZANU PF headquarters in Harare in March 2003, he said: “I want to start by congratulating you on your vigilance and the good work you did during the so-called MDC stay away. It was a failure, a complete flop. They can’t tell the world that they succeeded because their target was to overthrow our government. Their target was to get us to say ‘Yes, we shall do what the MDC wants us to do’. We have said who are you? Stooges of White man? You don’t have voices of your own. Yes, you wear our skins but below that skin you are White men. The Black skin that you have is just a gift from our ancestors but their thinking below their skins is White … There is no room for violent people, no room for people in Zimbabwe. Let them go to Europe. Let them go where their masters are. We want peace, peace, peace and stability in Zimbabwe. And from now on, that message which we are sending to them will translate itself into greater vigour, greater vigilance and greater action by my government. We Their words condemn them: The language of violence, intolerance and despotism in Zimbabwe.