Mugabe, hosting a celebration in Mutare, said some African leaders have become "weak and naive" and thought only of material gains when "kneeling" to Westerners.
Organizers from his ZANU-PF party said 20,000 people gathered at a Mutare sports stadium Saturday for his annual bash. A cake baked in Harare was taken to Mutare under police escort, and livestock were slaughtered for the event.
Regional Mugabe party official Charles Samuriwo didn't comment on estimates that the tab for the occasion had reached nearly $1 million. He told reporters that businesses made "sufficient" donations and "no one will go back home on an empty stomach."
In a nationwide broadcast, Mugabe said it was up to the young to "carry the torch in the future" and maintain a high standard of moral and sexual behavior. He said that unacceptable Western values included same-sex marriages.
"We reject that outright and say to hell with you," he said.
"You are free as a man to marry a woman and that is what we follow. That's what produced you and me," he said.
Mugabe told Zimbabwe's young to fight against Western influence.
"You must go to the head of the imperialist and knock out his brain," he said, cautioning them also against "any love for money [that] is greater than your political conscience."
Source: http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/articlepath.aspx?articleid=20120226_13_A6_CUTLIN235896&rss_lnk=1
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