via Mugabe threatens to kick out 163+ white farmers out of Zim – The Zimbabwean 1 March 2015 by Edgar Gweshe
President Robert Mugabe today threatened to kick out 163 plus white commercial farmers from Mashonaland East province saying that more would be booted out under a campaign to flush out the remaining whites on the country’s farms.
He made remarks during celebrations to mark his 91st birthday in Victoria Falls today.
Mugabe blamed expelled former Zanu (PF) Mashonaland East Chairperson, Raymond Kaukonde, for protecting white farmers in defiance of a party directive for them to be kicked out.
“I was talking to the Minister of Lands and I think it was the day before yesterday and we were looking at each and every province and we started with Mashonaland East. In Goromonzi, they (white farmers) are 40. From Goromonzi, we moved to Mutoko and Murewa and they are 123.
Mind you this is Mashonaland East.
“Then I said so some of our leaders had been hiding them (white farmers) in farms and saying the farms had been given. So I said let’s stop here,” said Mugabe.
“Vanga vakahwandiswa nanaKaukonde (They were being given refuge by Kaukonde and his team).Saka ndakati tombomira ipapo (I said let us stop there.”
White farmers were kicked out of their farms following the launch of the controversial Land Reform Programme by Zanu (PF) in 2002. The programme was criticized for being campaign gimmick.
Mugabe said that after the purge in Mashonaland East, Zanu (PF) will launch the campaign to flush out white farmers to other provinces.
He blamed Zanu (PF) officials for misrepresenting to him that farms formerly owned by white commercial farms has been taken for resettlement by the government.
Mugabe threatened to seize safaris owned by whites in the country in protest against “US sanctions” on Zimbabwe.
“We are now going to invade those forests. It’s now time that we become owners not of the vote but of that which the vote brought us,”he said.
“We had to force them out. We kicked them out and we did that because it was necessary,” said Mugabe.
COMMENTS
Special idiots, you must be so proud of how you have destroyed such a prosperous country. What a shame all the lefty wasters in the west insist on feeding you because you can’t even feed yourselves and you and you alone have created your own misery, oh sorry I forgot its the white mans fault
163 farmers, Tongaat-Hulett, pull out now. Go north. Grow crops and sell them back to this regime. Payment in advance.
If you are a citizen you can challenge under the constitution/ICC. This
comes a day or do after declaring land reform has failed! Bloody marvellous!
Mugabe is like Vervoed, but an ethnic cleansing racist facist thug. If this was in any other country there would be an outcry. Sanctions should now be increases on all Mugabe interests
Just shows how little regard Mugabe has for the Constitution and well being of his people, he is quite prepared to destroy every little bit of the economy, just to try and big note himself as the big black liberator. What a pathetic, misinformed little failure he is.
The Geriatic at it again throwing tantrums