Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute…

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

Sourced, 1980

BBC News ‘On This Day’. A plea to the white population of Zimbabwe in a speech at a ZANU-PF rally, 27 January 1980.

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