ZIM MINISTER CALLS FOR GAYS TO LOSE THEIR LAND
Zimbabwe’s Minister of Local Government, Public Works and Urban Development Ignatius Chombo has called for traditional leaders to seize land owned by gays and lesbians.
According to New Zimbabwe, Chombo described homosexuality as a “foreign value” while addressing hundreds of villagers and traditional leaders in Jotsholo, Matabeleland North.
“The chiefs are there to protect and promote our cultural values and those who support same sex marriages must be banished from the communities and be dispossessed of their land,” he was quoted as saying.
“What kind of madness is this that when we have beautiful women in our country some people want to marry other men?” he added.
Chief Gampu Sithole of Tsholotsho also commented on the issue at the gathering: “As chiefs, we are very clear on homosexuals. We denounce them. I agree with Minister Chombo that those who support homosexuality should be expelled from our communities and their land forfeited.”
Chombo, said to be close to President Robert Mugabe, was accused in March of corruption over allegations he had illegally acquired state land.
Homosexuality is illegal in Zimbabwe. There have been some efforts to protect gays and lesbians from discrimination in the country’s planned new Constitution, but these have been rejected by Mugabe’s Zanu PF party.
In October last year, Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister and Mugabe’s biggest rival Morgan Tsvangirai told the BBC that he supported equal rights for gays and lesbians.
Prejudiced b@stards who are deluded in thinking they are better than anyone else and abusing; lauding their power over others simply to feed their own self-righteousness – and now an excuse to rob them of their land. Chuck the lot in jail to rot!
African *Wisdom*…. They still believe in forefather spirits and bones, so it is impossible for their little minds to grasp the concept, and that is why it is so “foreign” to them, and also why they and many other African countries will forever stay in the “dark ages”.
This is the African version of Hitler. I can only imagine when the two of them meet up in hell or share a cell together. Since when does one person have the right to control and manipulate others in the way y they want them to live. The only way one can sort this problem out with Zimbabwe is, one bullet one president. This man has some alliance with the devil, or maybe the devil in human form since Lucifer likes to emulate God. South Africa is flooded with Zimbabweans, but they are too weak to stand up against this man and kick him out. Zimbabwe has such allot of potential, pity its tarnished buy dictatorship.
this is africa…..is anyone really surprised by this?
I call upon all Zimbabweans to shun and condemn all forms of violence and discrimination relating to sexual orienation
We should put pressure on Robert Mugabe and members of parliament to make a constitution that ‘s in line with the international human rights. it should stop discrimination on the basis of sexual orienatation.
Let us not allow political leaders to continue to slander ,vilify and dehumanise LGBT people