Mbekis motives help to predict Zumas actions on Zimbabwe

PAUL WHELAN

FOR nearly a decade, the South African press and its columnists beat up on former president Thabo Mbeki over the crisis in Zimbabwe. They were less vocal about a Human Sciences Research Council report last year that suggested elements of Zimbabwes opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) were undergoing military training.

For SAs patriotic newspapers were conscious of a more disturbing problem: tha