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South African government spokesperson Themba Maseko basically announced last week that that recent changes in Zimbabwe lead them to believe that SA may need to give Mugabe a hand in sorting out his various Zimbabwe crises. According to the Star newspaper on Friday last week: “Maseko said that the South African government was extremely concerned [...]

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Thabo Mbeki and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have been pretty useless at attempting to manage Zimbabwe’s Mugabe crisis, cholera crisis, financial crisis and associated spillage into neighbouring countries. We can only expect they will manage the latest anthrax crisis and looting by Robert Mugabe’s soldiers across Zimbabwe with equally elegant ineffectiveness. President Mbeki, [...]

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Does anyone out there still believe that any of the numerous Zimbabwe crises – economic, health care, political – take your pick, can be resolved by diplomatic means involving Robert Mugabe? If so, you may be just the person I’m looking for… See, I have a sick relative in China that has left me $4,540,000 [...]

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This is part two of yesterday’s Thabo Mbeki cartoon. So things have gone a little wrong for Mugabe in Zimbabwe.. it could happen to anyone. There is sewage flowing in the streets, endless mounds of rubbish, a broken water supply – and a cholera epidemic that has Zimbabwe’s Health Minister admitting that he is scared. [...]