So who thought Mugabe could be trusted?

Mugabe is determined to wipe out the MDC-T majority in parliament and regain supremacy again. The Global Political Agreement he signed with Tsvangirai allows him to contest the seats that are falling vacant now as MDC-T MPs (one seen above taking the oath of office) fall like flies in the face of various charges, ranging from kidnapping, rape and abusing Gideon Gono's farming inputs programme

I learn from my Zimbabwean sources that Robert Mugabe is not happy with power sharing. His latest ploy is to have some of Morgan Tsvangirai's MPs arrested. So far 17 MDC MPs have been arrested and four have been convicted by the courts. The latest MDC politician to be arrested is deputy minister for youth, Tamsanqa Mahlangu, who has been arrested for allegedly stealing a mobile phone from a Mugabe "war veteran" at a conference a few weeks ago.

As I have said over and over again, Robert Mugabe will not relinquish his hold on power in Zimbabwe voluntarily and it is South Africa that holds the key to the solution. So long as the ANC led government in South Africa treat Robert Mugabe as a hero of the revolution, the longer the people of Zimbabwe will have to live under tyranny, fear and starvation. Unfortunately I do not expect Jacob Zuma to be any more intellectually or morally capable of dealing properly with Robert Mugabe than Thabo Mbeki and Nelson Mandela were. I hate to break it to you but the ANC leaders of South Africa are no more moral and laudable than their predecessors from the National Party, they are just blacker.

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