Brian Latham, Bloomberg
- Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe won’t retire until all land in the southern African country is in black hands, the Herald reported.
“Once I am sure this legacy of returning the land to the blacks is truly in your hands, people are empowered, your land is in your hands without the British wanting to take over the land, then I can say, `Aha, the work is now done’,” the Harare-based newspaper quoted Mugabe as saying on its Web site.
Mugabe was speaking at a political rally in the western district of Nkayi, where he told supporters not to vote for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai in next week’s runoff presidential election.
Mugabe, 84, will face 56-year-old Tsvangirai in the June 27 vote after no candidate won more than 50 percent of the ballots cast in the first round of voting on March 29. Between 400 and 600 white farmers still own land in Zimbabwe after Mugabe’s often violent campaign to transfer white commercial farms to black farmers began in 2000.
