Mugabe: Let Them Eat Spuds
Posted on: Monday, 19 September 2005, 06:00 CDT
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has said that if hungry Zimbabweans cannot have corn, they should eat potatoes instead.
"We have heaps of potatoes but people are not potato eaters. They have rice, but they're not as attracted to that," he said in an interview.
But most Zimbabweans cannot afford potatoes. Aid agencies say four million of the nation's 11.6million people face famine.
President Mugabe yesterday asked why his government was criticised for demolitions that left up to 700,000 people homeless while the United Nations said nothing about the situation in New Orleans.
"A whole community of mainly non-whites was deliberately abandoned to the ravages of Hurricane Katrina," he told the UN General Assembly.
Source: Daily Mirror
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