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Africa Subsaharan

Mugabe wows to win 2008 polls

2007-08-31

(SomaliNet) Saying nobody could ever force him into exile, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe vowed on Wednesday to win next year's elections. "I want to say here that I am not going anywhere. Here I was born. Here I grew up and here I shall die and will be buried," he told veterans of the country's 1970s war of liberation, calling them the "torch bearers" of the elections. "We are going to organise. We are going to win. But we want to win resoundingly."

Pro'ly will, too, since he and his have been beating the opposition senseless.

Meanwhile, some 5 000 veterans of the independence war began marching hours earlier in support of Mugabe's candidacy in the presidential elections, disrupting traffic in a city plagued by food and fuel shortages and the world's highest inflation rate. "The war veterans have a covenant with Mugabe.We will back you to the hilt," they chanted in the local Shona language. "They (the West) want to take our land, no no no no, over our dead bodies."

"We will die with our president," read one placard. Another one said: "Mugabe be our candidate for 2008".

Public pressure from Mugabe's Western foes has faded, giving him room to manoeuver. "For those who think we are cowards, we shall never retreat," said Mugabe. His credentials as a former liberation hero still makes him popular among southern African nations, who have been accused of being too soft on Mugabe.

Posted by:Steve White

#8 Corrupt Tribal Shout from the Despicable Thieving tribe of Africa, the MaShona, the equivalent of the Palieostineans.

Posted by: rhodesiafever 2007-08-31 18:12

#7 The alledged fuel shortages can't be too severe if the 5000 war veterans marchng in the streest disrupted traffic. unless oxcarts count....

Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-08-31 14:37

#6 His credentials as a former liberation hero still makes him popular among southern African nations

So how's it feel to be liberated, Zimbabweans?
And by a third world hero no less...

Posted by: tu3031 2007-08-31 13:42

#5 Of course he will win! His supporters control the critical dogmeat supply - his political adversaries have already long since starved to death.

Posted by: Don Vito Thomp7870 2007-08-31 13:39

#4 It's the old 'he may be a bastard who led his nation into perdition, but he's an African bastard who led his nation into perdition'.

Posted by: Pappy 2007-08-31 11:19

#3 I'm sure he will, considering he will be controlling the voting and the ballot boxes will be stuffed.

Posted by: DarthVader 2007-08-31 08:59

#2 His credentials as a former liberation hero still makes him popular among southern African nations, who have been accused of being too soft on Mugabe"

It's probably also convenient for them to have a neighbour so massively corrupt and inept that their own populations can think 'it could be worse for us...'.

Posted by: Bulldog 2007-08-31 05:02

#1 "We will die with our president,"

Yes YOU will.

Fools.

Posted by: newc 2007-08-31 00:22

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