The Sunday Mail
“I want to say, when all honour has been showered on heroes in Africa, the man who has been humiliated is Mwalimu Julius Nyerere. There we are, liberation movements, there we were – depending on the resources in Tanzania.
“But there has been nothing said about this man and his country at the OAU. (Kwame) Nkrumah (of Ghana), yes, he had that support. I want us, Zimbabweans, to stand for Nyerere. Africa should be reminded of the responsibility that it thrust on this man, a burden to train all liberation movements.
“. . .Well, I am going to be chair of the AU and I am going to tackle this issue. There is none at all who have recognised what Nyerere did. We of Zimbabwe are not ungrateful; we are not ingrates. We are a grateful nation and we shall undertake to honour this man.” — President Mugabe on the occasion of his 90th birthday anniversary in February 2014
