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'If only Zim had a Mandela'
18/07/2005 12:29 - (SA)
Cape Town - If only Zimbabwe had a Nelson Mandela, expatriates from that country said on Monday in congratulating the former South African president on his 87th birthday.
Concerned Zimbabweans Abroad president Jay Jay Sibanda said his organisation had hoped "we were going to have a Mandela in Zim".
"A Mandela we would have wished many, many more (birthdays), but unfortunately we wish ours to have died in 1980, or during the liberation struggle.
"We wish he had never survived all those blazing guns, for we now have a monster, a barbarian who destroys his own people's homes, one who kills and tortures his own countrymen," he said.
The organisation called on South Africans to guard their independence jealously, "for if you don't, it will easily slip".
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