d be blown away. The Movement for Democratic Change and its brave leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, would win an overwhelming victory. Mugabe knows that, which is why the elections will be run by the army with members of his own militia — the so-called national youth service — at the polling stations to “assist” voters.
There will be widespread intimidation and brutality. If that does not work, the ballot boxes will be stuffed. Those who count the notes are under Mugabe’s control. They will know what to do. It will be a monstrous perversion of freedom, law, democracy and hope. Yet where are the protests from other African countries?
Mr Mbeki seems to speak for all his fellow sub-Saharan leaders. Their argument appears to be that, as Mugabe helped to free his country, he should now be allowed to wreck it. Thus millions of people are condemned to suffering; a country which should be rich is condemned to poverty.
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