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.

We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood... So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

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

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

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

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.