We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.

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.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

We expected anyway that the democratic forces which have agreed with us in Zimbabwe would have rallied behind us. But it was a difficult struggle.