Zimbabwe undecided

This decision is no decision, obviously. Mbeki cheapens the fact of voting when he says "The Zimbabwean people have made a decision and now we have to leave it to them." How humiliating for thinking men and women in South Africa. As if the people of Zimbabwe did not make a decision at the polls, which the state determined not to follow. The use of the Old Man for this purpose reminds me of the Star Trek episode where the mock up of Hitler's command center was thought to be most useful to keep order on the alien planet. Shockingly, everything had turned to shit.

Let's all pretend that we are collaborating and compromising.

Or let's have a real parliamentary system. Or let's get rid of the African state as it is now constituted.