 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe used his Independence Day speech to promise tough action against his opponents. He also reiterated plans for greater state control over the mining industry.
| Since state control of the farming industry's worked out so well... |
| ... it's about the only thing left that generates foreign currency, and well, you know Bob and foreign currency ... |
| Of course! do you have any idea how expensive those medals and ribbons are??? |
Zimbabwe on Tuesday marked 26 years since independence from Britain, amid a deepening economic crisis with inflation at 900% per annum.
They are coming right along now aren't they. So good to see the nasty ole crown gone.
Mr Mugabe called on Zimbabweans to stand together and blamed the current problems on a persistent droughts and "evil" sanctions by Western nations. In an apparent death threat warning to opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who has called for mass action against the government, Mr Mugabe said those who plotted against him were playing with fire.
(flaming tire around the neck possibly?)
| Bob has already given Mr. Tsvangirai a taste of what lies ahead ... |
"Anyone... who dares lead any group of persons to embark on a campaign of violence or terrorist or democratic activities will be inviting the full wrath of the law to descend mercilessly on him or on those who follow him," he said.
Mr Mugabe said the government would press ahead with plans to extend greater state control over the mining industry. "Non-renewable resources are ours in the first place, Mugabe said. "You, the investor, will get a reward, yes, but that reward will be balanced by what we keep for ourselves."
| "One for me, none for you. Two for me, none for you. Three for me ..." |
In South Africa, a few dozen of the many thousand Zimbabwean exiles who live in the country demonstrated near the African parliament, in Midrand, north of Johannesburg, calling on Mr Mugabe to resign so they could return home.
Zimbabeweans in exile might as well forget it.
| Might as well come to America ... |
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