Well, with the election, I’ve taken my eye off the ball with regards Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n
It appears that there are two camps in the Zimbabwe crisis among the Southern African Development Community (SADC), led by former South African President Thabo Mbeki, who generally cuts Mugabe infinite slack, and President Ian Khama of Botswana, whose opposition to Mugabe is best described as vociferous<\/a>.<\/p>\n I agree with Mr. Khama.<\/p>\n In any case, the SADC summit was held, and both parties attended<\/a>, though Tsvangerai made it clear that he would not sign an agreement just to satisfy mediators<\/a>, which is a not so thinly veiled swipe at Mbeki’s disasterous involvement in the process.<\/p>\n Of course, while this is all going on, ZANU-PF is still engaged in a broad ranging program of harassment, violence and intimidation<\/a>….Same old, same old….<\/p>\n In any case, it’s refreshing to see that Jacob Zuma, who had Mbeki ousted as South African president, Zuma says SADC summit must force Zimbabwe deal | International | Reuters<\/a> “As far as I’m concerned SADC must make those Zimbabweans reach an agreement,” Jacob Zuma told Reuters after a speech to the Cape Town Press Club. “They must force them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So it now appears that there may be a full summit of the SADC<\/a>, which is pretty much a recognition that Mbeki is simply not up to the task here.<\/p>\n So they held the summit over the weekend, but which came to nothing<\/a>.<\/p>\n It appears that there was an offer to “co-manage” the home affairs ministry<\/a>, but I think that it’s clear that the MDC “co-manager” would have no<\/span> voice in the matter, which they rejected.<\/p>\n In any case, it appears that Mugabe is now saying that he will unilaterally allocate cabinet positions<\/a>.<\/p>\n
is making it clear that he will not accept Mbeki’s do nothing style<\/a>:<\/p>\n