[Ironfocus]

Not sure how sanctions will help. Mugabe has millions stashed away, it will only affect the people who it is supposed to help.

[Clive]

The sanctions imposed by the US and the EU are presonal sanctions against Mugabe, his supporters and their spouses and children.

It bars them from travel to the US or the EU.

It means, for example, that Zanu PF can no longer send their children to universities in the UK and the US.

The sanctions include businessmen who support and profit from Zanu PF and also the Anglican Bishop of Harare who has not only supported Zanu PF and Mugabe, but has also grabbed a farm that was forcibly confiscated from a white commercial farmer.

The sanctions would have more effect if countries such as South Africa, Malaysia and Indonesia were to join them. As it is, Grace Mugabe now does her grandiose shopping trips in those countries now instead of in Paris and London.