Anyone who was paying attention knew the SADC would end up this way the moment they ruled out military intervention as an option. It's like the pathetic British "non-lethal" mercenaries who ended up having to abandon the Liberian ship they were hired to protect and swim for hours in the Gulf of Aden while Somali pirates took potshots until they left with the hijacked ship because they heard helicopters approaching.

SADC to Mugabe: "Why can't you let the people who know how to grow food do it, instead of sending in 'war vetrans' who keep growing nothing but mud?" Mugabe to SADC: "I kill people who try to tell me what to do. I killed 200 MDC people this last election. Don't make me kill 200 SADC people." SADC: "We're sorry! We retract our power sharing deal! We'll even say it's the MDC's fault!"

It is time the people of Zimbabwe see that noone is going to liberate then from this monster Mugabe. Botawana is the only country willing to say the truth as it is and tell Mugabe to leave because he and his ZANU-PF lost the March elections. Why should Mugabe invite Tswangirai into power-sharing government let alone dictate the make-up of the government when they lost the elections? This is just unbelievable and it typically shows an African logic and mentality that betrays justice and fellow Africans. This mentality has been used by foreigners like Arabs, Europeans and Asians to systematically enslaved and rape Africa economically, militarily, culturally, politically and morally throughout the ages. God gave Africa a lot of riches but we are the poorest continent on the planet because of this mentality of betrayal, especially the betrayal of justice and fellow Africans! So, the MDC should accetpt Botswana’s hospitality and form a government in exile. Those in the army, police and civil services should also take exile in Botswana. If Mugabe sends his henchmen into Botswana territory to persue the Zimbabweans then the UN will have a clear mandate to intervene. South Africa has been the biggest obstacle to finding peaciful solution to Zimbabwean crisis. So when we Zimbabweans start doing something ourselves we can also ask our friends all over the world to threaten boycotting the Olympics in South Africa, if South Africa does not play a fair role in the Zimbabwean problem.

Hokoyo:

That is more constructive than the silly rantings I read all the time. If Botswana is will to work with progressive and humane peace loving Zimbabweans so be it. It is unfortunate that where one would have thought the other African countries ought to be of meaningful help to resolving a glaring and obvious abuse of power and human rights one gets betrayal and insults being heaped on the injury. It is hard to understand the selfisness, or is it malice, demonstrated by Mbeki and the rest of the African SADC socalled leadership.