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| Monday, 7 July 2003 |
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Mugabe warns Bush not to 'dictate' to Africa HARARE, Sunday (AFP)-Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe warned that President George W. Bush will be spurned if he tries to dictate how southern African leaders should run their countries when he visits the region in the coming week. "Any dictating to us will never be heeded by any of us in this region," Mugabe told thousands of ruling party supporters at a rally in southern Zimbabwe. "If he (Bush) is coming to dictate to us to how we should run our countries, then we will say 'Go back. Go home Yankee," Mugabe was shown on state television as saying.Bush is due in South Africa on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of a tour of several African countries including Botswana, Uganda, Nigeria and Senegal. On Friday Bush, speaking in an interview in Washington, called on South African President Thabo Mbeki to put pressure on Zimbabwe and the 79-year old Mugabe to hold fresh elections. The US and Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) rejected Mugabe's victory in presidential elections last year, saying the poll was rigged and marred by violence. |
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