Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Friday warned that he will respond to Western hostility against his government by taking a more negative stance against whites in the southern African country.
”The more they (western countries) work against us, the more they express their hostility against us, the more negative we shall become to their kith and kin here,” Mugabe said in a speech to open the annual conference of his ruling Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) party.
Mugabe said countries aligning themselves with Britain in an international anti-Zimbabwe drive will be recognised as ”our enemies like we recognise Britain as our enemy”.
Relations between Zimbabwe and its former colonial power have soured in recent years as Mugabe’s government embarked on a campaign to seize white-owned land and give it to landless blacks.
Mugabe in his speech to hundreds of his party officials and supporters gathered in the small town of Chinhoyi, about 115 kilometres north of the capital, ruled out a government of national unity with the opposition in the country. – Sapa-AFP