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When they criticise the government when it tries to prevent violence and punish perpetrators of that violence we take the position that they can go hang.

— Robert Mugabe

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Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

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

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

What we hate is not the colour of their skins but the evil that emanates from them.

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

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