Thabo Mbeki, left, and future South African President Jacob Zuma, rightJacob Zuma Thwarts Efforts To Force
Robert Mugabe Out -- Times Online
Robert Mugabe Out -- Times Online
International efforts to end Zimbabwe's misery by forcing President Mugabe out of office were blunted yesterday when a key African leader urged further mediation despite the power-sharing impasse in Harare.
As President Sarkozy of France called for a swift end to the Mugabe regime, Jacob Zuma, the head of South Africa's ruling ANC party, insisted that dialogue was still the best way forward.
“President Mugabe must go,” Mr Sarkozy said in an address in Paris to The Elders, an independent group of statesmen and women who were recently refused visas to travel to Zimbabwe. His call followed similar demands from Britain and the US, as well as Raila Odinga, the Kenyan Prime Minister, at the weekend.
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My Comment: The ANC's support for Mugabe stains its reputation for caring about the average citizen of Zimbabwe. This legacy will harm the ANC in the future, and is in fact helping to split the ANC into another faction that will oppose it in the next election.