/ 16 July 2001

GADDAFI TELLS COLONISERS TO GO HOME

LIBYAN leader Moammar Gaddafi says land in Zimbabwe must be taken from white landowners without compensation, state radio reported on Friday. Whites should instead pay blacks for the land they seized during the colonial era, Gaddafi reportedly told a dinner party hosted in his honour by President Robert Mugabe on Thursday night. Kadhafi arrived in the Zimbabwe capital Thursday by road from Lusaka, in Zambia, where he had attended a summit of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) earlier in the week. ”Everyone who came as a coloniser must go back to where he came from,” the Libyan leader told residents of Chinhoyi, 100km northwest of the capital. – AFP