CONSERVATIVE
New Forest East

FOREIGN AFFAIRS – ZIMBABWE - 03 July 2008

FOREIGN AFFAIRS – ZIMBABWE - 03 July 2008

[Hugh Bayley: ... Mugabe is a tyrant, but where did he learn his tactics? He spent the first 50 years of his life growing up under white minority rule. When Cecil Rhodes's pioneers moved into Mashonaland in 1890, they simply seized the land. The Matabele lands were taken by the British South Africa Company because their leader, Lobengula, was double-crossed.]

Dr Julian Lewis: I find this history lesson fascinating, but before the hon. Gentleman gets too carried away in an anti-colonialist reverie, or even rant, may I remind him that Robert Mugabe was a Marxist dictator, and that it is no coincidence that a communist country, China, is his biggest supporter to this day?