Report by Margret Matibiri and Yolanda Muswere
“I am still the Hitler of the time.
This Hitler has only one objective: Justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for,” State funeral for Cabinet Minister, March 2003.
“Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.”
“Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept, will seek to remove.” 1962.
“Only God who appointed me will remove me, not the MDC not the British. Only God will remove me.” 2008.
“If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first.”
“I have died many times, that where I have beaten Christ. Christ died once and resurrected once.” His 88th birthday.
“The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.”
“So Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.”
“We don’t mind having sanctions banning us from Europe, We are not Europeans.
“Our economy is a hundred times better than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is (as good as) Zimbabwe? What is lacking now are goods on the shelves, that is all.” Interview, 2007.
“No where does the charter arrogate the right to some to sit the judgement over others in carrying out this universal obligation, in that regard we reject the politicization of this important issue and the application of double standards to victimise those who dare think and act independently of the self anointed prefects of our time. We equally reject attempts to prescribe new rights that are contrary to our values norms and beliefs, we are not gays.” UN, 2015.
“Now you get some people still saying because we are White and you are Black we cant give you the honor in the security counsel , nonsense, that should stop.”
“Some of us were embarrassed, if not frightened, by what appeared to be the return of the biblical Giant Gold Goliath. Are we having a return of Goliath to our midst, who threatens the extinction of other countries? And may I say to the United States president, Mr Trump, please blow your trumpet in a musical way towards the values of unity, peace, cooperation, togetherness, dialogue, which we have always stood for and which are well-writ in our very sacred document, the Charter of the United Nations.”
“Only a dead imperialist is a good one.”
