Zimbabwe Quotes

What we have done today is to set down the most concrete benchmarks by which the conditions in which the elections in Zimbabwe are able to take place, with an overriding imperative -- even at this late stage -- of trying to secure as free and fair elections as is possible. - Jack Straw

What we can be sure of, however, is that if the elections are not free and fair then Zimbabwe will be in the clearest and most flagrant breach of declarations to which they have signed up. - Jack Straw

What Nigeria did to Taylor is what Zimbabwe should do to Mengistu. - Nelson Chamisa

What is now required is that we should, as a country, stay on course to ensure that our economic objectives come to fruition. The close range in the voting is indicative of how serious and close the country had gone towards being expelled and how critical it is for Zimbabwe to urgently implement radical policy measures that will stabilise and grow the economy, especially in areas such as agriculture, mining, tourism, manufacturing as well as in the parastatal and local authority fields. - Gideon Gono

What appeared as a far-fetched dream has become a reality and it is a great chance for Zimbabwe's tourism to flourish. - Shingi Munyeza

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case. - Helen Clark

We won for the first time in Harare, but you have to remember the previous Zimbabwe here consisted of people like Andy and Grant Flower, Ray Price and others. - Sourav Ganguly

We will not be party to any Caesarian operation by South Africa. We are not going to have short-cuts...and force issues on Zimbabweans. - Morgan Tsvangirai

We will have people in the Caribbean following their respective teams from Asia, we will have Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Indians, Sri Lankans, Australians, Zimbabweans.... And in many of the states there are conflicts which have taken on a terrorist form, and so there is always the potential that we in the Caribbean could become the stage on which other conflicts get acted out. - Peter Phillips

We totally deplore what is happening in Zimbabwe... The actions of Mugabe...are a disgrace -- a disgrace to his own country which badly affect the reputation of the whole of southern Africa. - Tony Blair