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.

The anti-imperialist, forces in the country [Zimbabwe] here, I think are not that strong. The capitalist forces, the reactionary forces are far more formidable, far better organised. But we would have wanted to hear the voice of the anti-imperialist forces, those who espouse the cause of freedom, the cause of independence, everywhere.

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.

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

Our view is that we would want to see the situation in Ireland resolved, but we do not intervene in that situation for tactical reasons. Our view is commonly known that imperialism wherever it is must be fought and that justice must be done in Ireland.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

We will defend our victory through armed struggle. We will have to do that.