President Robert Mugabe has upped his threats against whites still farming in Zimbabwe.

JOHANNESBURG - President Robert Mugabe has upped his threats against whites still farming in Zimbabwe saying they should go back to England.

Fourteen years after the Zimbabwe president launched his land reform programme, Mugabe has been angered by increasing numbers of new black farmers who lease back their land to whites.

President Robert Mugabe says planes can take whites back to England faster than the ships that brought them here.

He says the West would prefer a weak leader in Zimbabwe who would allow whites back onto the land, and the 90-year-old president vows that will never happen.

Mugabe was speaking at the installation of two chiefs in his home district of Zvimba.

The Zimbabwean president has upped this threats against white farmers in recent months and some are blaming that for a number of farm takeovers and attacks on white farmers.

The NewZimbabwe.com website says Mugabe told black farmers to stop bringing whites back because it was dangerous.