Beware of West, region warned
Posted: Friday, September 20, 2002

From Elton Dzikiti in VICTORIA FALLS

PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday war-ned Southern Africa to be wary of efforts by Western imperialist forces bent on dividing people and governments in their quest to continue exploiting the rich resources of the region.

Cde Mugabe said although changes in the sub-region’s political landscape were welcome, it would be fallacious to assume that former colonisers had disappeared with the coming of political independence.

"Those who tormented and dispossessed us yesterday have assumed new, subtle and deceptive forms of imperialism and subjugation that are not clearly understood by some of our people in the sub-region and beyond," he told delegates attending a conference for the Southern Africa Development Community police chiefs and ministers in charge of policing.

Cde Mugabe said while Africa was the richest continent in terms of resources, Africans were yet to enjoy the full value of their resources owing to conflicts and other machinations fuelled by the West.

"The new millennium should therefore, be viewed as an epoch in which Africa must redefine its relations with the West, with our people emerging more liberated, politically, economically and socially." MORE 

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