Mugabe is playing Mbeki & Motlanthe like fiddles

[mahnmut]

 

The combined might of the current and former presidents of South Africa, backed up by an assortment of regional leaders, have failed to get Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe to stick to the power-sharing deal.

Why? Because he's a lying, conniving, power-mad nutter. Let me spell it out one more time: Mugabe holds on to power until there is a crisis. He then agrees to negotiate with someone. Then he holds on to power until there is a fresh crisis. Then he agrees to negotiate... you get the picture.

He has played Thabo Mbeki like a violin, like a banjo, like a mandolin and finally, over the last several months, like a classical guitar.

Both presidents, former and current, are just stage extras on the Mugabe power show.

Comments

[madali.livejournal.com]

But which one would you think is the right way? The problem is that other countries can't really do much, aside from directly interfering with the country's sovereignty

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

(D) of course, but it sounds too perfect to ever come true. Then I think the Botha way would work best, especially since we have one such example as South Africa (at the end of apartheid).

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

I thought the African Union has exactly this purpose.