Posted on 06/24/2008 3:24:08 PM PDT by blam
Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe isolated as allies turn their backs
By Louis Weston and Peta Thornycroft in Harare
Last Updated: 7:48PM BST 24/06/2008
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has sunk deeper into isolation as African leaders turned against him and called for South African President Thabo Mbeki, his most important protector, to do the same.
The leaders of Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana and Angola have all turned their backs on President Mugabe
The Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade and Jacob Zuma, leader of South Africa's ruling ANC, called for the presidential election on Friday to be postponed following the withdrawal of Mr Mugabe's rival, Morgan Tsvangirai.
The calls came in the wake of a UN Security Council statement condemning the violence in Zimbabwe, where scores of people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced in political violence.
"The ANC says the run-off is no longer a solution, you need a political arrangement first ... then elections down the line," said Mr Zuma, as his party issued a stinging denunciation of "violence, intimidation and outright terror".
South Africa has been mediating between Mr Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change and Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF for a political settlement. Such an agreement will prove harder if Mr Mugabe secures a new term in office.
Mr Mbeki, the appointed mediator of the regional Southern African Development Community, now faces pressure to turn his back on Mugabe, according to a senior western diplomat.
Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana and Angola – the latter one of Mr Mugabe's most reliable allies – have all condemned the Zimbabwean leader with Mr Mbeki left relying on South Africa's "client states" – Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland – for support.
"They have finally realised, rather too late but better late than never, that this is a regional crisis of accelerating
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True, and well said.
The responsibility of Mugabe falls squarely on Zimbabweans.
The blacks were all for him taking white owned farms.
Let them free themselves from their own chains of hate, tribalism and ignorance.
Agreed, but Western leftists like Carter and the British socialists fed them the usual radical pablum and egged them on.
Mugabe was a “Catholic Marxist.” He gained power at the height of the Liberation Theology fad. I knew at the time he would turn Zimbabwe into a hell on earth. I’m just surprised it took 30 years for Zimbabwe to reach this point.
amen to that!
President Thabo Mbeki — People get really dead around this POS.
“Yep, all Mugabe has to do is wait and see if Obama becomes POTUS.”
Not unlike a few others. A guy named Jefferson comes to mind.
Somebody has to pay, and being that all politics is local, this is the group that should pay.
Life is tough, then you die.
Or the corollary: life is tough, and it's tougher if you're stupid.*
*John Wayne
your statements are acurate and true.... i can not argue with the historical precident.. that has been set.... for Germany suffered for Hitler’s sins as well as Japan for Togo
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