We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder ... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
In an interview with the Associated Press news agency, Mr Mugabe denied that Zimbabwe was in the grip of a famine.

Any national office bearer
Any national office bearer should speak all the three national languages based on the principle that you can not serve a people whose language, hence culture, you do not understand nor wish to understand. If you only speak SiNdebele, then you can only serve the SiNdebele speaking region and likewise if you only speak Shona.