This shows how much pinch Mr Mugabe is feeling due to the challenge from Simba. I'm sure now he will admit the 'frog' has successifully inflated itself to a hippo! One would expect a person in the respectable position of president to know that times are changing. He will be the first to admit (in his heart of hearts) he has failed to run the country. If you keep blaming foreigners for bullying you one wonders if you deserve to represent the people of Zimbabwe in that high office or just retire to village headmanship. Zanu PF failure is a result of the discrepancy between policy and implementation. A policy is only as good as its implementation. In normal circumstances this reflects on the leader who should be taken to account. He has failed to accommodate and value dissenting voices and forgot that democracy lives through ordinary people's actions; it does not depend on state sanction. Politicians should be in everyday contact with the people on their own ground on their own terms - not looking for every oppotunity to limit their choices. The failure to recognise and embrace the need for leadership change/renewal has crippled the party and checked its ability to adapt to the changing polical terrain in Zimbabwe and the wider world. That is why Mr Mugabe should not personalise the party like an accessory. That is why we need a new pair of feet to take us into the future.