During her confirmation hearing in 2009, Condoleezza Rice branded Zimbabwe along with Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, and North Korea as outposts of tyranny. ................................. If Zimbabwe were indeed a tyranny, Mugabe argued (in 2009), the first person to lose his head would be Ian Smith, who led the white-minority government in Rhodesia, as Zimbabwe was called before independence in 1980. ................................. We have kept him and protected that head. He eats our food, lives in our home comfortably and is protected by our rules of law and order, said Mugabe. ................................. Smith, who was prime minister from 1965 to 1979, lives on a farm outside Harare and has remained an outspoken critic of Mugabe. ................................. He enjoys the comfort of Zimbabwe, can travel... He writes books freely, against us even, and using that head, which, if we had been a tyrannical government, we would have long taken off, Mugabe added. ................................. How many countries would have done what we did? Mugabe asked, adding that Smith enjoys charity, generosity, kindness, and forgiveness in our house
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 00:25:50 +0000
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