“Land reform is the best thing that could have ever have happened…” : Mugabe on CNN
September 25th, 2009
Robert Mugabe was interviewed by Christiane Amanpour yesterday and CNN have two clips from the interview on their website. As usual, Mugabe produced some pirceless and incredible quotes. In his interview, Mugabe apparently denied that the country was in economic shambles and claimed that food shortages were exacerbated by sanctions and drought. He said:
“The land reform is the best thing (that) could have ever have happened to an African country … It has to do with national sovereignty.”
Mugabe also denied that he lost the 2008 election and denied that he was responsbile for the violence following the elections:
“You don’t leave power when imperialists dictate that you leave,” he insisted. “There is regime change. Haven’t you heard of (the) regime change program by Britain and the United States that is aimed at getting not just Robert Mugabe out of power but get Robert Mugabe and his party out of power?”
September 26th, 2009 19:33
The thing that most comes across with Robert Mugabe in these interviews, and no doubt any others to which he has agreed to be subjected to, is that he acts as if he is accountable to no one. Even snake oil salesmen were accountable to their product if it didn’t work.
But Mugabe is above all that. Democracy can go hang if it doesn’t accord with his twisted concept of reality. He is, remains, and always has been, a megalomaniac. Obsessed with power and a delusion of omnipotence. It is such a terrible pity that some countries still support him, and his evil regime, and his stolen riches.
September 28th, 2009 11:54
My own view on this interview! I don’t really think it was all that it could be. I think in many ways an unprepared Amanpour was made to look very very amaturish in this interview.
October 6th, 2009 01:19
He seems to be struggling and getting muddled at certain points during this – he’s a weak old man, I think a lot of this is totally beyond his own control now, although of course he should be held to account