I would laugh at Thabo Mbeki’s assertion that there is “no crisis” in Zimbabwe, if it weren’t so clear that there is.  I want some of what he’s on, as it’s so clearly mind-altering.  His talk, reported by the BBC, about continuing to follow the legal process including a run-off if it’s ever called, also conveniently ignores the fact that a myriad of election laws have already been broken by ZEC & Zanu-PF by this point, and with ZEC having all but disappeared – along with the ballot papers – no-one is going to believe the results when they come out anyway, unless Bob can somehow be coerced into announcing honest results: a Tsvangirai win.

The people we’re relying on to do that coercing are SADC, but with Mbeki already taking the “What problem?  I don’t see no problem…” line, I’m not remotely hopeful.  There hasn’t been a communiqué from the summit yet to we can assume they’re still talking – what we need to see, though, is action, and soon.