{"id":5423,"date":"2014-11-16T14:07:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T07:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2014-11-16T14:58:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T07:58:12","slug":"robert-mugabe-celebrates-killing-whites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/robert-mugabe-celebrates-killing-whites\/","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe celebrates killing whites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Mugabe says there was nothing wrong with blacks killing whites during the &#8220;Godly liberation war against colonialists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the official launch of the Non Aligned Movement Workshop on Minerals in Harare, September 2014, Mugabe told delegates, who included school children, that: &#8220;Uprooting settlers demanded more than just sitting and crying, so we opted for the brutal way. Bullet for bullet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe described the killings as a Godly way of dealing with the colonialists since they (freedom fighters) did not go for the white men&#8217;s school children. The veteran leader said passive resistance by black Zimbabweans against the British settlers had only resulted in one-sided bloodshed, hence the adoption of the armed struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe said his whole life had been focused on politics and fighting colonialism&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zimbabwe News\" href=\"http:\/\/bulawayo24.com\/index-id-news-sc-national-byo-54255.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Mugabe says there was nothing wrong with blacks killing whites during the &#8220;Godly liberation war against colonialists&#8221;. Speaking at the official launch of the Non Aligned Movement Workshop on Minerals in Harare, September 2014, Mugabe told delegates, who included school children, that: &#8220;Uprooting settlers demanded more than just sitting and crying, so we opted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,2515,4248,4247,4249,500,4245,427,257,426,254,4693,4246,4686,421],"class_list":["post-5423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed-struggle","tag-british-settlers","tag-bullet-for-bullet","tag-fighting-colonialism","tag-harare","tag-killing-whites","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-war-against-colonialists","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}