Rejoice Ngwenya, AfricanLiberty.org
Monday, April 21, 2008
President Thabo Mbeki and his infamous colleague Robert Mugabe are marooned on an isolated political island, under siege by diplomatic brickbats and flotsam; their old bodies quivering and shivering in cold winds of backlash from Mr. Mbeki’s unpopular proclamation that Zimbabwe is not a crisis situation. While Mbeki ponders thoughtfully on the next move to restore a badly mutilated credibility, Mugabe conspires with China to fend off a deluge of inevitable popular electoral discontent with Chinese AK-47s, bullets and Israeli water canons.
