Zuma: Zimbabwe is out of control

"Soldiers came into Mr Tsvangirai home looking for him....."

There's no state of emergency declared yet the military sees fit to run around looking for people.

And we thought this crap only occured in failed states like Somalia!

This shows more than anything else that Zimbabwe is now in legal freefall.

Good on Zuma, to use a turn of phrase I picked up in Ozzie.

He may have a doubtful personal life, but he has more political sense than Mbeki. Let's hope if he does become president, the good sense side prevails.

Robert Mugabe is obsessive compulsive and now also suffers from delusions: only God can remove him from power. Negotiations will all fail. A very bleak future for Zimbabwe. SA can expect an massive influx of people in the near future. The situation is like a crystal ball and the number of deaths will crack the crystal ball and once this happens their will be action. However, it will be too late! Crisis is a test of leadership. To ignore a crisis is a sign that you avoid the test and likely are not worth the leadership role!

zimbabwe issue presented an oppotunity to zuma to get support. His views are differing with Mbeki's and therefore make him (Zuma) of the views as opposition parties. For him to denounce Mogabe somehow changes the perception that people had on him

It is progress of a sort but we should not get too excited by what Zuma says yet. He is fortunate to have neither the responsibility nor power to do anything about Zim at present and cannot miss in letting his political adversary, Mbeki, continue to take the heat.

I sometimes wonder if it’s worth having the United Nations it is really a useless body when it comes to certain world issues. In October of 2002 the council published a damning report about Mugabe and his cabal of criminals’ illegal exploitation of natural resources of Congo Kinshasa (DRC). The panel concludes on widespread illegal operations spearheaded by the Ugandan and Rwandan occupiers and the Kinshasa government together with its Zimbabwean ally. The panel recommended sanctions against several companies and persons involved in the illegal businesses.
The people of Zimbabwe are being massacred to protect these illicit deals and just wonder if the our lame Pres. Mbeki has his fingers in the cookie jar and is afraid of exposure should he speak loud.
What was the purpose of compiling this report when it could not be acted upon, President Bush was right on his assessment of this body and went into Iraq, I hope and sincerely he can be persuaded to go to Harare and flush out Osama bin Laden who is in Sanctuary there. Never mind there not being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq at least he got one tyrant out.

I agree that Mr Zuma is in a fortunate position. He is not the mediator. Not many countries can blast and appear the honest broker at the same time. The ANC statement if analysed said nothing new and in fact was the Biblical Pilate washing his hands of the problem.

That Mr Mbeki was negotiating all along and that there were reforms at one point seems to indicate a realisation that something was amiss. That he failed to change Mugabe who has realised that he nearly buried himself by allowing a near semblance of democracy is something else. Yes perhaps South Africa has not fully empowered its majority economically which could lead to a diffidence in tackling somebody strutting about as a true liberator. That is the case with almost many any African President. The diffidence to stand by their policies and the belief in them and their success. The strengthening of their own institutions. Zuma is skirting on thin ice. It would be something to hear a mudslinging match between Mugabe and Zuma. One is in need of a trial to clear his name and the other is in need of a free and fair election to legitimise them. But both of them seem determined to do the darndest best to rejest the legitimising processes. Incidentally their supporters talk the same lannguage.

No Mr Zuma, zimbabwe was always out of control. Even when you were cheering Robert Mugabe's invasion of farms. even last year when Kgalema Montlanthe wrote the article about illegal sanctions it was out of control. Even when Cyril Ramaphosa feasted at the ZANU PF congress to a Polokwane like endorsement of Robert Mugabe's candidature following mass actions by war vets or marches and ostracising of those seen to be in opposition it was already out of control.

What we are seeing is a denouement of the plot which at various stages of history Britain and recently the ANC helped script. At the moment they, for all condemnation of the most unfortunate individual on earth at the moment (Thabo Mbeki)have nothing to offer save condemnation. It is my view that if SADC wanted South Africa leverage to flex its muscle, it should have chosen another nation to mediate with South Africa on the side. Right now it must be seen to be neutral for all its worth to get through the charade of buying confidence. Robert Mugabe knows that the refugee problem could be worse for South Africa if it closed off supplies and would be inhumane. Him and his cronies will still be living lasrge in Zimbabwe Ruins.