zimbabwe: Another Betrayal in Africa

With President Robert Mugabe virtually hanging on by the thread because of Zimbabwe's fast deteriorating economic crisis, all Presidents Thabo Mbeki, Olusegun Obasanjo and Bakili Muluzi needed to do was to apply a little pressure to bring Mugabe to the negotiating table without any preconditions by him. But a golden opportunity to relieve Zimbabweans of the pain wrought upon them by the retrogressive policies of this government has been lost - all because Mbeki and company would rather have solidarity with the ageing dictator than with the long-suffering masses of Zimbabwe.