Robert Mugabe
Robert Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabeis the current President of Zimbabwe, serving since 22 December 1987. As one of the leaders of the rebel groups in opposition to white minority rule, he was elected Prime Minister in 1980, serving in that office as head of the government, until 1987, when he became the country's first executive head of state. He has led the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Frontsince 1975...
NationalityZimbabwean
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth21 February 1924
CityKutama, Zimbabwe
CountryZimbabwe
Let those long distance philanthropists who want to romanticize shacks ... tell us why they don't allow them in their own land,
The voice of Mr. Bush and the voice of Mr. Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq,
What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.
If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.
It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.
Only God who appointed me will remove me.
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
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.
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas.