Addressing thousands of people at the Mashonaland West Youth Interface Rally on Saturday, President Robert Mugabe warned against leasing out farms to white farmers and said that it could be a calculated move to get the farms back.
Said Mugabe:
So, how come, I ask, that some of you, who have farms have allowed whites to come back clandestinely and are farming? They are working on your farms as you spend time, perhaps in Harare. Mapurazi arikurimwa nemabhunu (White farmers are farming on those farms). Ko matadza kurima? Maakudzora mabhunu (Have you failed to farm that you are returning white farmers? Awandaka mapurazi akadaro munyika. Saka, vakambomhanya vachienda kuSouth Africa, zvino vadududza nenjere dzekuti ahh, nekuti takasiya gejo redu nematractors achiri kune mamwe mapurazi. Handei tichiti ahh, tinokurimirai. Zororai zvenyu. Tisu tova varimi. So, what are you doing? Munofunga muri kuiteyi? Muri kuiteyi? Kuchenjera here ikoko? Huh?
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