Article: Mugabe: Zimbabwe is for Blacks

SUSANNA LOOF, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
06-17-2000
Mugabe: Zimbabwe is for Blacks

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- President Robert Mugabe said Saturday that whites may live in Zimbabwe, but they will never have a voice equal to that of blacks in the southern African nation.

``The whites can be citizens in our country, or residents, but not our cousins. They are the greatest racists in the world,'' Mugabe said in a campaign speech one week before parliamentary elections set for June 24-25.

Mugabe does not face election, but his ruling ZANU-PF party is facing its greatest challenge since the country gained independence from Britain 20 years ago.

The president has repeatedly attacked the ...

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