via I don’t want to see a white face, Mugabe – The Zimbabwean 10 April 2015
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe told a crowd of media and spectators on Thursday while visiting Hector Pietersen Memorial in Soweto, “I don’t want to see a white face”.
The Zimbabwean leader was in South Africa on a state visit.
An SABC reporter described the incident as Mugabe exited the museum, he walked past a television journalist who asked whether the tour had evoked any emotion.
When Mugabe saw a white journalist behind her, he pushed the microphone away and reportedly said: “I don’t want to see a white face.”
Mugabe’s comment can be heard in the video below …
COMMENTS
Well, here’s one white face he won’t see on Zimbabwe soil again, not until he has gone to his well deserved hell that is.
How racist and ignorant and unprofessional can one be- eats lives dresses like a white man
He also wants to shop in London and elsewhere in Europe and the US. I guess white faces don’t matter so much when they are not asking difficult questions.
A LOAD OF TRASH, HE HAS UTTERRED
Is this the president of our nation, in this twenty first century???
I am really embarassed , these words dont befit a president. We are all God’s children whether black, white or yellow. We need to move forward and stop being so bitter over people’s skin colour.
Mugabe stop talking nosense yooo baboons,well said kelly
Very glad, it is for the whole world to see. Some people would
think we were making this up about how Mugabe feels about whites.
Well another white face whom will never see my birth place again and thank God for that. Nazis, even the mustache is the same.
Mandy don’t let that doddering old man, mugabe drive you from your homeland. He may say he doesn’t want to see another white face but that old fool is begging the white ruled nation to pour money into Zimbabwe, he just does not see the irony in that. This man is bitter, envious and pathetic.mugabe knows he has failed, he ruined the jewel of Africa.
Even me I don’t want to see a white face,its Kak
It is a great pity that his nation feels exacly as he does. There is no end to Zim hatred for foreigners and everyone else for that matter. Zimbos will be dancing with excitement that there leader has behaved in such a manner. Very sad
Only reason why Mugarbage hates white people is they are a constant reminder to him of how useless he is, once give a jewel by the white man which he has reduced to the begging bowl of a s6&th>le that zimbabwe is now
Its well known that Mugabe is demented, at this stage.
Not much should be credited to his utterances, therefore.
He has been on video denouncing his own ZANU!!
Let’s not get excuses for Mugabe being racist. He was racist in the 60s, 70s (well before dimentia kicked in) and all his years as leader of Zimbabwe. If he had his own way he would have thrown everyone out of the country save for his ‘worshippers’ in Zanu PF.
No excuse here for racism.
The African of yesteryear was a friendly trusting kind of individual.
Until the white settlers taught him Racism.
Ngoto, what you wrote is absolute twaddle. The Ndbele people used to raid the Zezuru and the Karanga looting and kidnapping were the order of the day. This was a way of life learned by Mzilikazi when he was a Zulu Induna under Shaka. It was Shaka’s way of life, subjugating the Xhosa and Swazi as well as the Sotho. This did not give rise to a polite friendly society but rather a subservient, fearful society in the face of superior power. This remained so until education and travel opened the eyes of African people and the proliferation of AK47s allowed them to put pressure on the Colonial powers who were only too willing to give up costly and unruly colonies. The biggest myth is that the colonies were profitable for the colonisers. Were this so the victorious colonial powers of WW2 would have have used their considerably military power to retain them, this did not happen except in Algeria and Viet Nam where the French (the least successful colonial power involved in WW2) were soundly beaten.
True, there were raids and regional differences. Same was true of Bruce the Scot and the English.
Neither society could have been accused of racism.
It took the white man to come and show us blacks how superior he was.
The white colonisers were technologically superior, as were the Arab slave traders who took an estimated 2m slaves from Africa in the 19th Century. It was only superior military technology that enabled Britain (yes that’s right the great colonial power) to stop the slave trade in Malawi Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and eastern Zambia. Technological superiority does not imply moral or sociological superiority. A case in point is the USA it is militarily the most advanced technologically superior military power on the planet. However they are a conflicted society of dubious morality. Africa’s problem is and was that the ordinary people have been cowed into submission by centuries of having to bow to militarily stronger cultures such as the Arabs, the colonial powers and before and during those years by other African tribes. As for racism, yes, there was a very definitive racism in Britain. Ask the Irish Catholics, ask the Scots crofters ask any Cockney. Why did my ancestors come to Africa? The answer is to escape discrimination in Britain because of their lower social status. It was only my Fathers Father who brought skills to Africa as a doctor and when his eldest son married my Mother, my Grandmother wore a black dress to the wedding, mourning the fact that she thought her son had married beneath his social status. You need to read more.
Discrimination takes many forms, racial, class, gender,sexual orientation etc etc and they are all vile.
Each culture has its fair share of these.
However, Africa didn’t have any racial discrimination until the white man brought it, as, by definition, a race cannot discriminate against itself, racially,
Which is where my talking “twaddle” comes in.
Mugabe can say he doesn’t want to see a white face, I will also not be surprised to hear him say he doesn’t want to see a black face. The guys simply hates humanity.
What irks me is that he wants to transfer his personal hatred for humanity to be a national policy and that is pure evil. He has done that with many of his flawed policies which are now affecting everyone. He has no leadership skill in him at all and yet he thinks that somehow he is a genius. What a racist!
I wonder how the sole white MP in ZANU PF feels about Mugabe’s statement
One of the main reasons why Zimbabwe’s economy is shrinking is because leadership has shrunk its perspective of the world and excluded other nationalities from existing within Zimbabwe. South Africa is thriving ironically is because they accommodate diversity. Why go and beg from them when that wealth was built by whites? I am sure Zuma has policies which accommodate any race as long as they respect South African Laws. Why not the same in Zimbabwe. Just because the president hates whites should not play a factor in depriving the rest of the country a chance to interact with them socially, economically, politically and religiously. Some policies just don’t contribute to national growth. Hope things get better in Zimbabwe soon.
So now the geriatric genocidal murderer – Bobby Horror – says that he does not want to see a white face and does not give a rat’s buttock about how cruel he is to the people of Zimbabwe or its elephants? Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Lord Carrington, Lord Soames, Malcolm Fraser, BJ Vorster and Ian Scoones all sing (or sung) his praises! What hope can there be with such high level, international, bungled meddling of inimitable magnitude? Spare a thought for the people – it is an experience to feel and see the suffering.
Bob hates Zimbabwe. Anyone not suffering like his subjects in Zimbabwe today is an enemy. It took a great effort on his part to destroy Zimbabwe to where we are now. He almost succeeded in 2008 had MDC not fallen for the the GNU bait and propped Zimbabwe albeit for a few years. Now that the GNU is history, he was nowhere to run now. Money speaks as they say and the coffers are fast drying. One of these days he will run out of fuel over he Hague and land he will, to answer his charges.
A country run by a madman can only self-destruct. This lunatic destroyed commercial agriculture in his country and now he does not realize that the same sector from other countries provides food for the starving Zimbabweans. The money to buy the food basically comes from the hated Western countries and the lunatics hates them.
Once again the Zimbabwean agricultural sector did not produce the required food to feed the nation – the Zimbabwean government has been looted by him and his cronies and does not have the money to buy food from other countries – millions will starve this year and what will happen?
It is time for the people of Zimbabwe to say enough is enough – get rid of this racist lunatic and his demented cronies. It is time for the people to rise up in their millions and march to his palace, arrest him and place him in a lunatic asylum where he belongs.
Well said.
Imagine if Blair had stated that he didn’t want to “see a black face”. Mugabe would have expressed outrage at this racist remark. It seems that only white on black is deemed racist in our leaderships mind, the reverse is perfectly acceptable.
I thought it was ironic when Zimbos were told a few days ago to follow the example of Zambia – which happens to be where our farmers are!
Hitler live again. ZPF people got excited when I said they were identical to the Nazis in all ways, but they are
Don’t take what he says at face value. I am a black Zimbabwean who has lived in UK for 20+ years. London used to be Mugabe’s favourite destination, until he was banned from coming here, and there are lots of white faces here! His response at the Soweto museum was more to do with his fear of what the white journalist would ask him. African journalists don’t ask awkward questions of these dictators out of fear, while white journalists feel free to ask. He was actually running away from the white journalist!
Is’n it ironic all the dollars he is using now have a white face on them but he still wants those to support him racist bigot!!!!!!
The rhodisian white government discrinimated us ,but developed the country pretty well.Mugabe and co. are discrinimating whites and not even developing but running the country down.Had we had been patient and taken over the country say in 2015, it would have been so well developed that even the foolishest president would have no chance of bringing it down.For sure Zim. would have the highest living standard in Africa and beyond, compareble to some asian countrys today, which were 60 years ago nothing less than a bunch of rice farmers living in swamps.Even less developed than Rhodisia at that time.Singapour for example Mr. President! How I wish you had been there as a young man.Today you know it very well. By the way they also have very pale faces so close your eyes the next time you visit your favorite Doctor.
Why don’t he change his English names if he hates everything white so much. “Robert Gabriel ” ha ha ha !
The Honourable was once fetted but fell out with someone somewhere and his views got hardened ,but has he got a point though? africans need to learn pride , courage and loving thy neighbour .people who hate other races do not love themselves, never mind their own people either and are so mean to share what they are priviledged to have ie compatriots .where are the psychologists when we need them?
If Mugabe hates white people so much then why don’t he change his English names. “Robert Gabriel ” it must be a big burden for him on a daily basis.
lets focus on building zim
Racial discrimination has never worked. In the whole of history.
It did not work for Ian Smith and if you take a look at Robert’s blatant racial discrimination over the last 15 years – you will see that it has reduced his country into a cesspool of corruption, poverty and despair. Well done Bob.
“You’re leaving holes in “MY” country and you want to say the capital is more valuable?”“The gold that “I” have, God given gold, is much more beneficial to “MY” country,”Fed up with years of food shortages, rising prices, unemployment, state-sponsored violence and poor service delivery.‘No country will develop without eating. As the saying goes, ‘easy come, easy go.’ Those who looted white-owned tractors and irrigation equipment either ran down the machinery or flogged it for a quick dollar. The financial sector, without which no economic revival can occur, is literally on its knees.
Mike your encouragement is good bt the people u ar talking to are ok with what mugabe is doing to them, because they want someone from outside to fight for them. Tsvangirai has done his part and he later realised that he might be killed and no one would care to revenge his death coz zimbabweans ar good at running away from their country and wait for God to help them. For God to help u, you need to start the fight first.
Don’t take this incident at face value. I am a black Zimbabwean who has lived in London for 20+ years. This used to be the Mugabe’s favourite destination, and there are lots of white faces here! His favourite place to stay was St James’s Court. He only stopped coming here because he was banned. I suspect the incident in Soweto was to do with fearing what the white journalist was going to ask. He was actually running away from him/her. African journalists don’t ask awkward questions of African dictators for fear of reprisals. White journalists do, and that’s what the dictator was running away from.
I like your way of thinking, me man but unfortunately, when one has got instances like Ferguson in the US and Gukurahundi closer to home, question has to arise.
What is it all about?
Demented old Bobo doesn’t even come into the equation.
don’tbe swayed by the comments of a deluded old dictator, this is just a tactic to distract everyone from his own failures. He is bitter he failed dismally in his own time and knows he is never going to make it right feels he has nothing to lose but doesn’t care about future generations..his name in history is down trodden. These comments can’t be made by a right thinking person especially a leader, clearly the man is overly senile . Zim is your country and no one can take that away…believe me things will come right once the current madness is gone.
I hope the next time he goes on one of his jaunts someone one says loudly, “Eh – I don’t want to see a blek face begging here!” LOL – he needs one, right between the eyes!
He will be remembered in history as “The man who destroyed a nation” and like Hitler and Stalin his name will be reviled. GOOD
PS
When you know you are a failure it is always best to blame someone else.
Zanooo have been well trained by their leader, 35 years of total failure!
The roads built by the whites have potholes. They are disintegrating. No white faces to fix them.
Zimbabwe’s money has American white faces. It’s dirty and old and full of germs. No white faces to replace it.
The electricity infrastructure built by the whites has almost collapsed. No white faces to fix it.
Zimbabwe’s food supply has collapsed. No white faces to farm it.
Zimbabwe’s MPs want to drive around in German Mercedes Benz, to shop in London, Paris, New York and Geneva, and send their children to study there.
Why won’t Bob “indigenize” his health care at Parirenyatwa Hospital if he wants to see no white faces?
What hypocrisy from this senile dictator? Didn’t he once say that he is more British than the British? Aren’t some of his sponsors white? Nicholas van Hoogstraten? Nicholas “Nicky” Oppenheimer whose family still owns six ranches totalling 45 330 hectares – over 10 years after the so called land reform programme, to mention a few.
Where is the video there is no evidence that he actually said that