There are many refugees, if not more refugees inside the country than outside the country. There is also the question of working to aid us at the present moment when we are campaigning for elections.

Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe?.. What is lacking now are goods on the shelves - that is all.

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

We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.

It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.