 Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF reacted with glee, proclaiming in the state-owned Herald that the plan for UN intervention in Zimbabwe had been: A British machination to try and bully African nations, a racist ploy … to say Africans are not capable of making decisions and that African issues can only be seen through the eyes of little England.
These then are President Mbeki’s friends.
Meanwhile the world watches incredulously as Mugabe withholds election results, fully a month after voting day. As UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday: We know who is the winner.
As a nation we do not deserve to be associated with the embarrassing spectacle of an ageing, power-mad dictator desperately trying to cling to power. When Mbeki’s minions protect Mugabe in any forum, they know they do not have the backing of civil society back home.
Shame on them.
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