Howzit

I saw an article on the internet this afternoon that angered me. Thabo Mbeki - he of the mediation talks which never happened - has thrown his lot in with Robert Mugabe and blames the United Kingdom for much of the chaos there!

Sorry?

So the UK has had a hand in the Land Reformation, Operation Murambatsvina, Operation Sunrise and the latest price roll back exercise?

Give me a break!

Mbeki is doing this so as not to incur the wrath of Mugabe if he were to give a negative report to SADC next week in Lusaka, But has he any choice? Nothing has happened and he must report it as that.

And the reason that nothing has happened is down to the very man who he is siding with! Mugabe put measures in place months ago to ensure that any mediation would be stymied. He has even told the world - those that bother to take notice that is - that he views the mediation as a ‘politeness’ to SADC - nothing more.

So if his heart wasn’t in it, and he has effectively wasted 5 months, Mbeki has really got no choice, although I still can’t fathom out just what it is about Mugabe that no one wants to say anything against him.

John Howard called him a ‘grubby dictator’ and the rest of the world shook the heads in sympathy - not with Howard - with Mugabe!

I am quite sick of the free and democratic world sitting back and watching events from afar, with the soft understanding of their companions, collectively sighing at the problem - but doing nothing to help…

My blood pressure is now sky high – so before I burst a vessel, I’ll stop here…

Take care.

‘debvhu