I will defeat whites - Mugabe

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has announced his intention of retiring once his "old white opponents had been thoroughly beaten". News reports said that Mugabe accused the country's white minority of resisting his efforts to build a non-racial society by refusing to share the country's wealth, particularly land. He said that the people needed economic victory as well as the political victory they had achieved. Mugabe said his government was not to blame for the country's severe economic crisis - he blamed low commodity prices, a squeeze on foreign aid, and what he called "sabotage by white industrialists". "Once we have the land, and are producing all that can be produced, we are home and dry," Mugabe added.