50+ Funniest Rib Cracking Mugabe Quotes of All time
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Robert Mugabe is, has been and will *lets not get there yet* ..the president of Zimbabwe. He was elected as Prime Minister, head of government, in 1980, and served in that office until 1987, when he became the country's first executive head of state.
As Africa's oldest serving leader, now serving his seventh term in office, Mugabe has said and quoted a number of remarkable things during interviews, including widely broadcast sit-downs with Dali Tambo and Chief International Correspondent for CNN Christiane Amanpour.
Here is a list of the most funniest rib cracking mugabe quotes of all time we managed to compile for you.
"You take gold and leave holes in my country, no!" – Pretoria, South Africa on 8 April 2015
"Mandela has gone a bit too far in doing good to the non-black communities … That's being too saintly, too good, too much of a saint.” – Harare, Zimbabwe on 2 May 2013
"It's your support which enables me with my small frame to instill fear in the likes of Obama.” – Zvimba, Zimbabwe on 7 September 2014
"The land reform is the best thing that could ever have happened to an African country.” – New York, United States on 24 September 2009
"It's not a basket case at all.” – New York, United States on 24 September 2009
"Only God who appointed me will remove me, not the MDC, not the British.” – Bulawayo, Zimbabwe on 20 June 2008
“If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.”
“Archbishop Tutu said it is nice to be gay, yet he has a wife, he should have begun by getting himself a man for a woman…When you are a bishop and cannot interpret the Bible, you should resign and give it to those who can. We will not compromise our tradition and tolerate homosexuality.”
“We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality. John and John, no; Maria and Maria, no…I keep pigs and the male pig knows the female one.”
"I’ve just concluded – since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people and enjoys an attractive countenance – thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, DC, get down on my knee and ask his hand."
“South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner.”
“The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans… The white man is here as a second citizen. The only man you can trust is a dead white man.”
“Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? … What is lacking now are goods on the shelves—that is all.”
“I will never, never, never, never surrender. Zimbabwe is mine. I am a Zimbabwean. Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans. Zimbabwe never for the British. Britain for the British.”
"I have died many times – that's where I have beaten Christ. Christ died once and resurrected once." – February 2012
"Are we now like Nigeria where you have to reach your pocket to get anything done? You get into a plane in Nigeria and you sit there and the crew keeps dilly-dalling without taking off as they wait for you to pay them to fly the plane" – March 2014
"Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically" – Undated
"We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other – September 2005."
"We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans" – September 2002
"The only white man you can trust is a dead white man." – Undated
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