IAN Smith, the last white prime minister of Rhodesia, voted on Saturday in Zimbabwe’s parliamentary elections, telling the media he wants to get rid of the “gangsters” in power. “All I want to do is get rid of the present gangsters,” he said at the polling station at the Belgravia Sports Club in Harare before casting his ballot. Asked for which party he will vote, the crusty, 81-year-old farmer replied: “I have been trying to unite the opposition. … We have only got a weekend to go, and then we will know whether we have saved our country or not.” He added: “There is rampant intimidation. … We have got to try and ensure we get rid of the government in spite of the fact it [the election] is not free and fair. There has never been a free and fair election in the past 20 years.” President Robert Mugabe told a rally last weekend that he has allowed Smith to keep his head. “I spent 11 years in prison at the hands of Ian Smith, but he’s still here alive, keeping a head which we should — you know — have taken as our own,” he told some 4000 supporters at an election rally in the working-class Harare suburb of Highfield.