Harare - Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe says
Donald Trump's Mexico wall "appears quite nasty" but the US president
"might come up with better policies", state media reported on Sunday.
In excerpts of an interview to
be broadcast to mark his 93rd birthday on Tuesday, Mugabe was largely unwilling
to criticise Trump, though he did admit the US president was "radical".
Said Mugabe in quotes carried
by the Sunday Mail: "I was surprised by his election but I didn't like
Madam Clinton either."
He added: "I don't know
whether the construction of the wall between America and Mexico is feasible...
it appears quite nasty." Zimbabwe has its own experience of keep-out
fences: Botswana erected one along the border in 2002, ostensibly to protect
its cattle from foot-and-mouth. But many thought the wall was to keep out
Zimbabwe migrants.
Mugabe said it was
"arrogant" of former US president Barack Obama to extend sanctions on
Zimbabwe before he left office in January.
Mugabe has been in power since
independence in 1980 and plans to stand again in elections next year.
