Grace Mugabe threatens to spill blood

First Lady Grace Mugabe has threatened to spill blood in defence of her extensive Mazowe farm which she says she "personally" grabbed at the height of the land reform programme.

According to the NewsDay, Mugabe told hundreds of ruling party supporters at the Zanu-PF Gweru Convention Centre on Monday that she personally seized the farm from its owners to show people that the land reform exercise was not child's play.

"Nobody will remove me from the farm which I took. Blood will be spilt if anyone attempts to remove me from that farm . . . I took that farm personally because even after I told ministers and government officials that I wanted a farm, they did not allocate me land and instead told me they thought I was joking," she said.

The First Family also owns Iron Mask Estate previously owned by farmers John and Eva Matthews.

"I asked Baba (President Robert Mugabe): 'What will people think about this land reform if they see us not leading from the front?' I told him if you want to eat a dog, eat a very big dog which has a strong odour so that when people pass through they acknowledge that indeed a dog was eaten," she said.