By Basildon Peta
Harare - President Robert Mugabe has warned that "death will befall" all people bent on destabilising his government and sowing seeds of disunity among Zimbabweans.
Mugabe threatened that his enemies would pay for their sins "with their lives".
Peter Gwinyai, spokesperson of the Zimbabwe Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa, said his organisation had sent "a media alert" to make the whole world aware of Mugabe's threats, which were also targeted at journalists from Zimbabwe's small but vibrant independent media.
Officially opening the Pungwe Water Project in Manicaland Province late on Thursday, Mugabe singled out what he said was a section of black Zimbabweans who were conspiring with whites to topple his government.
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Mugabe's threat comes barely a week after the labour-backed opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said it had uncovered a plot by the Zimbabwe government to kill its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai. The government denied this.
The MDC is widely regarded as the only opposition party able to unseat Mugabe's government in elections due next month. The MDC successfully campaigned for the rejection in a referendum of a new draft constitution that would have given Mugabe more sweeping powers.
Mugabe said on Thursday that those whites who were recruiting blacks to help in their campaign to destabilise his government would "pay with their lives" unless they immediately stopped their plot.
"Those who try to cause disunity among our people must watch out because death will befall them," said Mugabe, who spoke in his vernacular Shona language.
He accused blacks who he said were working in cahoots with the whites of trying to discredit his government by using the fuel crisis and at the same time turning a blind eye to its many achievements since Zimbabwe's independence in 1980.
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