Robert Mugabe citations

Robert Mugabe, né le 21 février 1924 à Kutama en Rhodésie du Sud et mort le 6 septembre 2019 à Singapour, est un homme d'État zimbabwéen. Il est Premier ministre de 1980 à 1987 et président de la République de 1987 à 2017.

D’obédience marxiste, il participe à la fondation de l'Union nationale africaine du Zimbabwe et mène une guérilla contre le gouvernement d’Ian Smith en Rhodésie du Sud, ce qui fait de lui un des « pères de l’indépendance » du pays, qui devient le Zimbabwe. Après être devenu Premier ministre du pays, il en accède sept ans plus tard à la présidence, instaurant un régime présidentiel. Cette fonction lui permet de continuer à assurer l'essentiel du pouvoir, auparavant détenu par le chef du gouvernement.

Son engagement anticolonialiste assure sa popularité auprès d'une partie de sa population et du continent africain. Cependant, il est accusé de faire reculer les libertés individuelles et de favoriser le racisme antiblanc, notamment par une politique de confiscation de terres et d'expulsions. Au niveau économique, sa présidence est marquée par une explosion du taux de chômage, par une hyperinflation, par des famines et par la décision de pays occidentaux d'imposer au Zimbabwe des sanctions économiques.

Fin 2017, alors qu'il dirige de facto le pays depuis 37 ans et qu'il est le plus âgé des chefs d'État en exercice dans le monde, il est victime d’un coup d’État qui conduit le Parlement à engager une procédure de destitution à son encontre. Il démissionne alors de la présidence du Zimbabwe et meurt deux ans plus tard dans un hôpital singapourien. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. février 1924 – 6. septembre 2019
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Robert Mugabe: Citations en anglais

“I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.”

Address to the nation by the Prime Minister-elect http://web.archive.org/web/20040312141228/http://www.gta.gov.zw/Presidential+Speeches/1980_Nat_Add.html
Broadcast speech on Zimbabwe-Rhodesia Television, 4 March 1980, on winning the election.
1980s

“Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.”

BBC News 'On This Day' http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/27/newsid_2506000/2506219.stm
A plea to the white population of Zimbabwe in a speech at a ZANU-PF rally, 27 January 1980.
1980s

“It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.”

"ZAPU deposes Mr. Nkomo as Leader", The Times, 9 July 1962, p. 9
Remarks to the press, 8 July 1962, concerning the future strategy of ZAPU in achieving majority rule.
1960s

“Let Blair and the British government take note and listen. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans. Our people are overjoyed. The land is ours. We are now the rulers and owners of Zimbabwe.”

Michael White, Andrew Meldrum, "Commonwealth leaders delay decision on defiant Mugabe", The Guardian, 6 December 2003, p. 2.
Speech to ZANU-PF Congress, 5 December 2003.
2000s, 2000-2004

“Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.”

"African threat to ban Sir Roy Welensky", The Times, 10 April 1962, p. 10
Speech at a meeting in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, 9 April 1962.
1960s

“We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood…. So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.”

Speech at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg (2 September 2002), quoted in John Battersby and Andrew Grice, "Anti-West anger at summit as Mugabe rounds on Blair", The Independent, 3 September 2002, p. 1.
2000s, 2000-2004

“It was an act of madness. We killed each other and destroyed each other's property. It was wrong and both sides were to blame. We have had a difference, a quarrel. We engaged ourselves in a reckless and unprincipled fight.”

Remarks at a memorial for Joshua Nkomo (2 July 2000), referring to the Gukurahundi massacres. Quoted in Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe's Future (2009) by Martin Meredith
2000s, 2000-2004

“Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!”

"Whites are real enemy, warns Mugabe", Irish Times, 15 December 2000, p. 11.
Speech to ZANU-PF congress, Harare, 14 December 2000.
2000s, 2000-2004

“When they criticise the government when it tries to prevent violence and punish perpetrators of that violence we take the position that they can go hang.”

Remarks following a meeting with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete (15 March 2007), commenting on a violent clash between members of his party and the opposition MDC
2000s, 2005 - 2009

“That isn't true. Zimbabwe is the most highly developed country in Africa. After South Africa, I want to see another country as highly developed. [We have 14 universities and a literacy rate of over 90%, the highest in Africa. ] And yet they talk about us as a fragile state. We have a bumper harvest, not only maize, but also tobacco and many other crops. We are not a poor country. If anyone wants to call us fragile, they can. You can also call America fragile.”

When asked by Anton du Plessis of the Institute for Security Studies if he agreed that Zimbabwe was a failed state, as quoted by Carien du Plessis in Mugabe: Zim 'is the most highly developed country in Africa after SA' http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/mugabe-zim-is-the-most-highly-developed-country-in-africa-after-sa-20170504, News 24 (4 May 2017)
2010s

“Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer – its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.”

Martin Meredith, "Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe".
Said in 1976 while a leading commander of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army
1970s

“I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people, and their right to their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for.”

Speech at the state funeral of a Cabinet minister, March 2003. Quoted in ['Hitler' Mugabe launches revenge terror attacks, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/1425727/Hitler-Mugabe-launches-revenge-terror-attacks.html, Peta, Thornycroft, Daily Telegraph, London, 26 March 2003, 5 August 2013]
2000s, 2000-2004

“We are still exchanging blows with the British government. They are using gay gangsters. Each time I pass through London, the gangster regime of Blair 'expresses its dismay.”

Chimaima Banda, "Gays seeking sexual asylum in South Africa", The Independent, 6 November 1999, p. 18.
A reference to an incident on 30 October 1999 when the human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell attempted a citizens' arrest on Mugabe during a visit to London.
1990s

“The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like an 'Animal Farm' where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals?”

Richard Dowden, "Mugabe: Commonwealth is 'Animal Farm'", Independent on Sunday, 7 December 2003.
Speech to ZANU-PF Congress, 6 December 2003.
2000s, 2000-2004

“What we hate is not the colour of their skins but the evil that emanates from them.”

Speech at the Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Harlem, New York (8 September 2000), quoted in Michael Radu, "State of Disaster", National Review, 27 May 2002
2000s, 2000-2004

“What was the most important thing for (Mandela) was his release from prison and nothing else. He cherished that freedom more than anything else and forgot why he was put in jail.”

As quoted in "WATCH: 'Fascinating' video of Mugabe talking 'non-racialism' like Mandela goes viral on social media" https://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/watch-fascinating-video-of-mugabe-talking-non-racialism-like-mandela-20170916 (16 September 2017), News24, South Africa
2010s

“We are now being coerced to accept and believe that a new political-cum-religious doctrine has arisen, namely that there is but one political God, George W Bush, and Tony Blair is his prophet.”

Accusing President Bush and Tony Blair at the UN General Assembly in New York on the US-led Invasion of Iraq. 2004-09-23 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3682352.stm
2000s, 2000-2004

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