Robert Mugabe: The game is up for white farmers
From the Zimbabwean President's Heroes Day speech, in Harare
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Your support makes all the difference.We set ourselves an August deadline for the redistribution of land - and that deadline stands. We, the principled people of Zimbabwe, we, the true owners of this land, shall not budge. We shall not be deterred on this one vital issue - the land. The land is ours.
All well-meaning and genuine white farmers who wish to pursue a farming career as loyal citizens of will have land to do so.
But as for those who want to own this country for Britain, the game is up - and it is time for them to go back where they belong. There is no room for rapacious supremacists.
No gold, no silver is precious enough to buy our sovereignty. We are not for sale, and Zimbabwe is not for sale. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans. We are not for the highest bidder in Europe or elsewhere. Let Blair hear it. We are not for the British bidder either.
Those who would go together with our enemies abroad cannot at the same time want to march alongside us as our partners. No - we say "no" to them. They must first repent. There cannot be unity with the enemies of the people, enemies of the struggle and enemies of our independence. Those who seek unity must not be enemies.
Despite deliberate attempts by both internal and external forces to destabilise our programme, Zimbabwe has received great support from our African brothers, notably President Mbeki of South Africa and Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, in attempts to find solutions to our own challenges.
The land reform programme has taken this fight against racism and the disempowerment of our people a step further, and today we are able to speak in convincing terms about the possibility of eradicating poverty, unbalanced development and suffering.
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