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Nowhere is there greater concern about the crisis in Zimbabwe than in the one country that, by itself, has the means to make or break Robert Mugabe: neighboring South Africa. But President Thabo Mbeki doesn't yet appear ready to pull the plug on the man who's giving him so many sleepless nights...
...consumer goods and, with its agricultural sector seriously damaged by the land invasions, it is now looking to its southern neighbor for staple food supplies. Just as the isolated, white-minority government of Rhodesia once depended for its survival on apartheid-era South Africa, now beleaguered Zimbabwe considers President Mbeki's South Africa to be its lifeline...
...doesn't Mbeki lower the boom on his dictatorial northern counterpart? The answer probably lies in Mbeki's greater plan for African solidarity, as espoused in the New Partnership for Africa's Development drawn up by him and other African leaders from Nigeria, Senegal, Eygpt and Algeria. NEPAD involves a "peer review" process to censure, possibly even intervene in, states that do not practice good governance. But Mbeki is not prepared to take such action unilaterally...
...perhaps his patience with Mugabe is wearing thin. At the World Economic Forum annual meeting in New York two weeks ago, Mbeki pointedly called for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe. His special economic adviser at the meeting, Wiseman Nkuhlu, was even more direct: neither the South African government nor the Southern African Development Commmunity (SADC), of which Zimbabwe is a member, would recognize the Mugabe government if the presidential election is not free and fair, said Nkuhlu...
...with the announcement of an impressive team of observers, led by a prominent diplomat and former leading black businessman, Sam Motsuenyane, for the Zimbabwe election. The aim of the South African team, which includes two judges, is to "let the people of Zimbabwe speak through the ballot box," President Mbeki told Parliament...