(29 Sep 2008) SHOTLIST
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1. Crowd waiting at airport
2. People in crowd chanting
3. Plane on tarmac, with stairs approaching
4. Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe shaking hands with officials
5. Mugabe walking past crowd, waving, gesturing, shouting slogans UPSOUND: (Shona) "Forward with Zanu-PF, forward with ruling")
6. Various, Mugabe leading crowd chanting
7. SOUNDBITE (Shona/English) Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe:
"We never said there was a deadlock but where we went (to the UN) they are saying there was a deadlock. They are already getting involved with the British. But we will be setting up government this week, towards the end of the week."
8. SOUNDBITE (Shona/English) Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe:
"The land is ours, no one will touch the farms. There shall never be a reversal of the land reform programme, never ever"
9. Crowd cheering
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe:
"We will never accept the return of the previous farm holders, those who left the country to go to Australia or South Africa to come back and take over. Never, ever, ever."
11. Cutaway of crowd
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe:
"We regret that he (Thabo Mbeki) is no longer president of South Africa, but that has to do with the internal issues and circumstances of the people of South Africa who cannot intervene in those matters."
13. Mugabe gets into car, pan to his wife getting into car
14. Car drives off
STORYLINE
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe returned from a 10-day trip to the United Nations on Monday and has promised that a new coalition government will be named soon.
"We will be setting up government this week," he said upon arrival in Harare, "towards the end of the week."
He was greeted by a large crowd of singing, dancing well-wishers at the airport and led them in chanting party slogans.
Mugabe also returned to an old theme, telling the crowd there would "never, ever" be a reversal of the land reforms that saw the transfer of vast tracts of farmland to African ownership.
He said he would never accept the return of the previous farm holders, who, he said, had left the country to go to Australia or South Africa.
During the 10 days he has been away, a power sharing deal he signed with his long-time rivals in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change has been stalled.
The two sides have been unable to agree which party would control key Cabinet posts, among them the finance ministry.
Mugabe also commented on the departure of former South African president Thabo Mbeki, saying he regretted that Mbeki was no longer in power, but that it was an internal matter for the South Africans.
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