“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.”

— Robert Mugabe

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

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