ZIMBABWE: PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE ENTERS FINAL ROUND OF CAMPAIGNING AHEAD OF UPCOMING PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
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ZIMBABWE: PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE ENTERS FINAL ROUND OF CAMPAIGNING AHEAD OF UPCOMING PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
- Title: ZIMBABWE: PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE ENTERS FINAL ROUND OF CAMPAIGNING AHEAD OF UPCOMING PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
- Date: 28th March 2005
- Summary: (EU) CHIVHU, ZIMBABWE (MARCH 28, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF COLOURFULLY DRESSED ZANU-PF SUPPORTERS DANCING AND CHEERING 0.06 2. ZIMBABWE PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE ARRIVING; MUGABE SHAKING HANDS AND GIVING POWER SALUTE 0.13 3. MORE DANCING AND CHEERING 0.17 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ZIMBABWE'S PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE SPEAKING AT RALLY, SAYING: "Go begging on our knees? We have enough resources in the country to look after our people in times of hunger and in times when we have plenty. We can do that." 0.36 5. SCU: AUDIENCE LISTENING 0.40 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ZIMBABWE'S PRESIDENT, ROBERT MUGABE, SPEAKING AT RALLY, SAYING: "We don't worry about other peoples' internal affairs. We don't bother about their governments, their irregularities that occur in their elections. They hold their elections in their own way. Let them see how we hold our elections and recognise that we determine the future of our country. We are the government here and we don't want any interference from outside." 1.17 7. VARIOUS OF CROWD OF ZANU-PF SUPPORTERS SINGING AND DANCING 1.24 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: CHIVHU, ZIMBABWE
- Country: Zimbabwe
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- Story Text: Mugabe enters final round of campaigning.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Monday (March
28) used the final round of campaigning ahead of Thursday's
election to make supporters swear to stick by his ruling
ZANU-PF party, which is widely expected to win despite the
country's deep economic crisis and widespread food
shortages.
Mugabe lashed out at the country's Catholic Archbishop
Pius Ncube, who has accused the 81-year-old leader of
starving opposition supporters to win the vote.
Mugabe denounced the prominent archbishop as a
"half-wit" for calling for his overthrow and said the
opposition in this week's parliamentary election were
Western stooges.
Ncube has called for a peaceful popular uprising after
the election.
Mugabe told a huge crowd of ZANU-PF supporters that the
country had enough food to feed its people, in good times
as well as bad.
Mugabe also lashed out at what he has referred to as
interference in Zimbabwe by foreign governments and said
only the Zimbabwe government could determine the country's
future.
""We don't worry about other peoples' internal affairs.
We don't bother about their governments, their
irregularities that occur in their elections. They hold
their elections in their own way. Let them see how we hold
our elections and recognise that we determine the future of
our country. We are the government here and we don't want
any interference from outside," he told the crowd.
He also accused the opposition MDC of being a tool of
foreign governments.
The MDC narrowly lost the 2000 vote and says it would
have won those polls, and a presidential vote two years
later, were it not for massive rigging by the ruling party.
ZANU-PF insists it won fairly both times.
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