Afrikaners forgot they had a home in Holland, says Mugabe

He astounded and amused the media, who he called comrades, with long chats about various topics, and thanked them for the "publicity'" about him.

"You focused on me as a real dictator. Yes. A dictator would have cut the throat of Ian Smith," he said referring to one of that country's last white heads of state.

"I said, 'let us turn our swords and ploughshares and work together'."

He said Zimbabweans had vowed that those who were guilty of apartheid, would not get away with it, but that was "anger that comes with struggle".

"Those who were enemies yesterday, they are friends."

He continued with: "The Afrikaners say they came the moment (Jan) van Riebeeck set foot in the Cape and they forgot they had a home in Holland.

"But did they have apartheid? No. But then they want peace and peace does not mean you must have the lion's share and the others have the baboon's share.

"No, you are all together, let's be equal. We did not send away whites. We took away land in accordance with what the British government and ourselves agreed upon."

He said former UK prime minister Tony Blair reneged on that agreement and did want to pay the compensation.

"Blair. Who is he? He (was) the prime minister of Britain. I am president of Zimbabwe. It is our land, we will take it."