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målet är att kunna tackla den skeva mediabevakningen genom att skicka vidare ett brev som kritiserar den skeva bild som finns av landet i västerländsk media, särskilt i fråga om rätten för ideella organisationer att bedriva verksamhet i landet.
till denna grupps arbete kan vi också tillföra som exempel RG Mugabes tal när biståndsorganisationen Humana öppnade upp sitt kontor i Harare, det gäller att bemöta lögner och syna vilka organisationer som är genuina biståndsorganisationer och vilka som har oärliga syften.
Presidentens invigningstal vid humana HQ ZIMBABWE kommer inom kort
Speeches made by the President
Robert Gabriel Mugabe
on the opening of HUMANA People to People Headquarters
(Held in Shona, translated into English)
Forward with the Majority Government
Forward with ZANU PF
Forward with HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE
Forward with unity
Forward with the upgrading of all the races
Down with laziness
I want to begin by thanking you so much for inviting me to be together with you on this day.
We once came together when we opened the school FRONT LINE INSTITUTE. We got a chance to see the work that was being carried out by our relatives from HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE.
You have been told already that these are not new people to us, no not at all. They are people we knew during the times of difficulties, when we were in the bush during the liberation struggle in Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania. We were fighting against "Mabunhu" (the oppressors).
They were some very young ones that time, but now some of them are adults with white hair. They were most of them from universities and colleges. They were sometimes referred to as "reject" people by their governments. The governments were wondering what they were doing, uniting with and assisting those freedom fighters.
We used to go to Denmark uniting with DAPP, but those from the government were staying away from us. They were totally opposed to our goals of the struggle. Regardless of the negative talks from their governments they continued helping us.
After the Lancaster Agreement our friends asked us if they could come home with us. We got on the way together, we came home together. On arrival here they started to help us with the settlement of the refugees that came home from Mozambique. They recognised some areas in which they could assist. This province was the first area they came to, Mashonaland Central Province.
They started by building schools and clinics. Even though they sometimes did not have all the knowledge themselves they learned by doing, and they taught people to do things practically, to be self-reliant. They did the work with a lot of success and they reached their goals.
In Muzarabani I remember when they were building clinics, and of course not to forget the Chindunduma School for 3 000 returning refugees.
Now they have farms. When I came to Frontine Institute five years ago they told me that they were growing paprika. They showed me all they were doing that time.
However they did not only come to Zimbabwe. They went to other countries like Zambia, South Africa, Namibia, Guinea Bissau, Angola, and there they went to different places. They also went to Mozambique, where we came from.
They have done a lot of work and at last their government also agreed that they were doing a good job. The government confessed that they had done something wrong to them.
They are people who are uniting with other people showing humanity.
Humanism means the well-being of people. Humanism is recognizing that your friend or neighbour needs help, it is to give your neighbour wisdom, it is to give somebody dignity, it is to give somebody knowledge in order for them to get out of their problems and get them out of poverty.
The one who spoke just before me like a poem, she said she is not talking as a politician, she is not standing for anybody, she said her words from her heart.
It was a word of humanism for us all to love one another, to understand each other, to stay in peace and stop fighting, so that we can help each other. It is exactly what they are doing.
Here they are with the Headquarters of the Federation, they have been telling me that they are now even in India, and in many other countries in Europe and North America. Soon we are also going to se those people coming here.
Spontaneous speech in English by President Robert Mugabe addressed to people gathered for the official opening of the HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE Headquarters 16/10 1998.
I was just giving a background of how we came to know each other in those early days when you were still very young those of you who started with us, and you were then kind of rejects in your own society because you would not do as your government and other political parties wanted you to do and be very obedient. You had your own way, you associated with us very early on, which governments could one do, not a single government in Europe associated with us in our struggle for liberation. None at all. Not even those for whom the cause of liberation meant a lot, the British.
They did not associate with us, they regarded us as terrorists, and yet we were fighting against illegality and when the moment came, after Ian Smith in this country had given in, and we agreed at Lancaster House that there should be independence. Legality now came to what was an illegal Rhodesia.
And only two days ago, I received Lady Soames and I was narrating this same story that we brought to Britain legitimacy that had been lost, lost in Rhodesia. And then the Governor came, because now Rhodesia was back to a legal status, to start afresh, but to start also anew on the road to independence.
When Governments would not support us, there were organisations in Europe which did. These young people defied that attitude of Governments and chose to be associated with us, came to our headquarters, worked with us, without adequate means, the little they had; their own skills, their own contributions, that's what they put together, to assist us.
What they organised by way of help amongst the generous people in their own societies, collecting used clothes, and by other means, that was what they relied upon, because they had no real means themselves.
But they had the will. They had the heart. And it was their hearts which spoke. They associated with us to the very last day when we appended our signature at Lancaster House, and then they say to themselves, your freedom has now come, we will go back and join you in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of your society. And they did so, they started here in Mashonaland Central Province building clinics, schools. They did not want to be in the hassle and bustle of cities where there was comfort, no. They wanted to rough it with the poor people, and we are not surprised that they are here in the bush. That is how they started. That is how they like it. Be with the actual people in need. Those suffering. From poverty, from hunger, from ignorance, from disease. These are the people they want to help. I am glad they have now spread themselves, they have grown. They have some means now, although they still have to work to complement what they have, and they tell me that they have spread themselves, even outside Africa, as far afield as India and other countries, America included, and sooner or later, this international Headquarters will see visitors or associates from these countries coming here. We say to them well done. You are part of us. Your revolutionary spirit has blended with our own, and may that spirit of oneness, that bond between hearts, continue, as you do even what we as Governments cannot do. We cannot create federations with India, America etc., but you can. We work at the higher level, at the tower level. Government to government relations that is all we are able to do, associating with organisations like the United Nations. But your association is down on the ground as grassroots with people, and that is much more meaningful. That is substantial. That is well rooted. It also provides that help which is most needed, direly needed in society. When you interact with the actual people, and affect them with your measures. Then you are becoming human, and you are living up to your own appellation; HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE. I want to thank you for having invited me. What I said came from the heart.
målet är att kunna tackla den skeva mediabevakningen genom att skicka vidare ett brev som kritiserar den skeva bild som finns av landet i västerländsk media, särskilt i fråga om rätten för ideella organisationer att bedriva verksamhet i landet.
till denna grupps arbete kan vi också tillföra som exempel RG Mugabes tal när biståndsorganisationen Humana öppnade upp sitt kontor i Harare, det gäller att bemöta lögner och syna vilka organisationer som är genuina biståndsorganisationer och vilka som har oärliga syften.
Presidentens invigningstal vid humana HQ ZIMBABWE kommer inom kort
Speeches made by the President
Robert Gabriel Mugabe
on the opening of HUMANA People to People Headquarters
(Held in Shona, translated into English)
Forward with the Majority Government
Forward with ZANU PF
Forward with HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE
Forward with unity
Forward with the upgrading of all the races
Down with laziness
I want to begin by thanking you so much for inviting me to be together with you on this day.
We once came together when we opened the school FRONT LINE INSTITUTE. We got a chance to see the work that was being carried out by our relatives from HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE.
You have been told already that these are not new people to us, no not at all. They are people we knew during the times of difficulties, when we were in the bush during the liberation struggle in Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania. We were fighting against "Mabunhu" (the oppressors).
They were some very young ones that time, but now some of them are adults with white hair. They were most of them from universities and colleges. They were sometimes referred to as "reject" people by their governments. The governments were wondering what they were doing, uniting with and assisting those freedom fighters.
We used to go to Denmark uniting with DAPP, but those from the government were staying away from us. They were totally opposed to our goals of the struggle. Regardless of the negative talks from their governments they continued helping us.
After the Lancaster Agreement our friends asked us if they could come home with us. We got on the way together, we came home together. On arrival here they started to help us with the settlement of the refugees that came home from Mozambique. They recognised some areas in which they could assist. This province was the first area they came to, Mashonaland Central Province.
They started by building schools and clinics. Even though they sometimes did not have all the knowledge themselves they learned by doing, and they taught people to do things practically, to be self-reliant. They did the work with a lot of success and they reached their goals.
In Muzarabani I remember when they were building clinics, and of course not to forget the Chindunduma School for 3 000 returning refugees.
Now they have farms. When I came to Frontine Institute five years ago they told me that they were growing paprika. They showed me all they were doing that time.
However they did not only come to Zimbabwe. They went to other countries like Zambia, South Africa, Namibia, Guinea Bissau, Angola, and there they went to different places. They also went to Mozambique, where we came from.
They have done a lot of work and at last their government also agreed that they were doing a good job. The government confessed that they had done something wrong to them.
They are people who are uniting with other people showing humanity.
Humanism means the well-being of people. Humanism is recognizing that your friend or neighbour needs help, it is to give your neighbour wisdom, it is to give somebody dignity, it is to give somebody knowledge in order for them to get out of their problems and get them out of poverty.
The one who spoke just before me like a poem, she said she is not talking as a politician, she is not standing for anybody, she said her words from her heart.
It was a word of humanism for us all to love one another, to understand each other, to stay in peace and stop fighting, so that we can help each other. It is exactly what they are doing.
Here they are with the Headquarters of the Federation, they have been telling me that they are now even in India, and in many other countries in Europe and North America. Soon we are also going to se those people coming here.
Spontaneous speech in English by President Robert Mugabe addressed to people gathered for the official opening of the HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE Headquarters 16/10 1998.
I was just giving a background of how we came to know each other in those early days when you were still very young those of you who started with us, and you were then kind of rejects in your own society because you would not do as your government and other political parties wanted you to do and be very obedient. You had your own way, you associated with us very early on, which governments could one do, not a single government in Europe associated with us in our struggle for liberation. None at all. Not even those for whom the cause of liberation meant a lot, the British.
They did not associate with us, they regarded us as terrorists, and yet we were fighting against illegality and when the moment came, after Ian Smith in this country had given in, and we agreed at Lancaster House that there should be independence. Legality now came to what was an illegal Rhodesia.
And only two days ago, I received Lady Soames and I was narrating this same story that we brought to Britain legitimacy that had been lost, lost in Rhodesia. And then the Governor came, because now Rhodesia was back to a legal status, to start afresh, but to start also anew on the road to independence.
When Governments would not support us, there were organisations in Europe which did. These young people defied that attitude of Governments and chose to be associated with us, came to our headquarters, worked with us, without adequate means, the little they had; their own skills, their own contributions, that's what they put together, to assist us.
What they organised by way of help amongst the generous people in their own societies, collecting used clothes, and by other means, that was what they relied upon, because they had no real means themselves.
But they had the will. They had the heart. And it was their hearts which spoke. They associated with us to the very last day when we appended our signature at Lancaster House, and then they say to themselves, your freedom has now come, we will go back and join you in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of your society. And they did so, they started here in Mashonaland Central Province building clinics, schools. They did not want to be in the hassle and bustle of cities where there was comfort, no. They wanted to rough it with the poor people, and we are not surprised that they are here in the bush. That is how they started. That is how they like it. Be with the actual people in need. Those suffering. From poverty, from hunger, from ignorance, from disease. These are the people they want to help. I am glad they have now spread themselves, they have grown. They have some means now, although they still have to work to complement what they have, and they tell me that they have spread themselves, even outside Africa, as far afield as India and other countries, America included, and sooner or later, this international Headquarters will see visitors or associates from these countries coming here. We say to them well done. You are part of us. Your revolutionary spirit has blended with our own, and may that spirit of oneness, that bond between hearts, continue, as you do even what we as Governments cannot do. We cannot create federations with India, America etc., but you can. We work at the higher level, at the tower level. Government to government relations that is all we are able to do, associating with organisations like the United Nations. But your association is down on the ground as grassroots with people, and that is much more meaningful. That is substantial. That is well rooted. It also provides that help which is most needed, direly needed in society. When you interact with the actual people, and affect them with your measures. Then you are becoming human, and you are living up to your own appellation; HUMANA PEOPLE TO PEOPLE. I want to thank you for having invited me. What I said came from the heart.
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