29 Statement by Isaac MacKenzie A ZANU PF MP said in the wake of the rejection of the Government proposed constitution in the referendum stated: “Let me assure you whites here, that once you support MDC, ZANU is not going to treat you as business people, but as politicians. Then if you are treated as politicians, it is like signing your own death warrants. The political storm will not spare you. Let you be informed that our reserve force, the war veterans, will be set on you.” (Source: Patrick Bond & Masimba Manyanya, Zimbabwe’s Plunge, Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Search for Social Justice 82 (pub. Africa World Press, Inc. 2002). Statement from Stalin Mau Mau “We say pasi nemabhunu (down with the whites) and we still say that. It is a particular class of white people who continue to be intransigent who have not changed at all and who do not want to change. We just go to the extremes during this election period. So really to be honest with you it’s not racial. When I say 90% of whites voted MDC I’m not talking from a racial point of view it’s just coincidental.” (Source: Film footage from film entitled Never the Same Again) Archbishop Pius Ncube The Archbishop has been a stern critic of the Mugabe regime, and has hence attracted a continuous flow of invective from the government. Statement by President Mugabe “Archbishop Ncube has gone too far. If he continues with his political stance we will challenge him as politicians. We will respect him if he remains within the confines of the church but once he shows his political tentacles and if those tentacles are harmful, we will cut them short…I don’t know whether we pray to the same God with this man, because we don’t understand why he doesn’t want people to be assisted. So why is the bishop refusing to have St Lukes upgraded? Angizvisisi ukuthi ingqondo yakhe injani.” (I don’t understand how his mind works) (Source: The Chronicle, 22 February 2005.) Statement by Minister Jonathan Moyo “This time they are trying to prevent our economic independence by using the recklessly tribal Pius Ncube, who is destined to follow Muzorewa in the dustbin of history while the rest by the British cronies will be flushed down the Blair toilet.” (Source: The Herald, July 23 2004) Their words condemn them: The language of violence, intolerance and despotism in Zimbabwe.