President Robert Mugabe Blasts USA, calls them mad, absolutely insane.

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Speaking to thousands of supporters in Chinhoyi, the 89-year-old also rejectedcalls for reform of partisan security forces, saying his main rival, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, could make changes if he won.

“In America they are saying Zimbabwe has gone for an early election without reforms. Americans must be mad and absolutely insane,” Mugabe said in an address that last more than two and a half hours, confounding speculation his health is failing.

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“Anything else the Americans have up their sleeve is no concern of ours, and anyway, keep your pink nose out of our affairs please,” he ranted.

“We are Zimbabweans we are a nation which is guided by definite principles and those principles don’t derive from the United States of America, we are our own deciders, we decide our own destiny so please keep your hands off.

“…Who are you whose administration has imposed sanctions on us, where do you get the audacity to open your mouth and try to sermonise us.

“And what sermon anyway can America teach us with all that filthy history of slavery and even current history of imprisoning blacks.

“Your prisons are still full of blacks where is your democracy? There is lots of racism in your country. Correct that and then come to us and tell us you are cleaner than anyone else you are still democratically filthy.”

This month’s vote is meant to end five years of fractious unity government under a deal brokered by regional power South Africa following violent and disputed polls in 2008 but with its credibility already being questioned, those hopes are waning.

The United States said this week it was deeply concerned by a lack of transparency, suggesting Washington was in no mood to ease sanctions against a victorious Mugabe even if he wins without violence.

Tellingly, it is not just Mugabe’s long-time foes in the West rounding on the continent’s oldest head of state, who has run the country since independence from Britain in 1980.

In unusually strong criticism, South African President Jacob Zuma’s top Zimbabwe expert, Lindiwe Zulu, said Zuma had telephoned Mugabe to tell him he was “not pleased” with the run-up to the poll.