“Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe threatened Friday to seize all Western-owned investments in the country unless their governments remove targeted sanctions imposed on him and his senior ZANU-PF party members.
The 86-year-old former guerrilla leader spoke at his party conference in Murare.
‘This conference must come with a real program, a solid program of how we decide to fight sanctions,’ Mugabe said. ‘What is our anti-sanctions program? We have been too far too good for malicious people for countries which seek to destroy us. Why should we continue to have 400 British companies here operating freely with Britain benefiting from us?’ “
(Zimbabwe’s president threatens ‘revenge’ against Western companies – CNN.com)