This is Zimbabwe has a call to action ahead of the SADC meeting this Saturday, and provides contact details that can be used if you’d like to make your thoughts known to the organisation ahead of the summit. Please make use of them. From the “I hate to say I told you so, but…” department, [...]

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Looks like the SADC summit is going to be worth watching after all, as according to the BBC both Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai are due to attend.  What I wouldn’t give to see the two of them in the same room… Which begs the question:  Has Morgan been invited, or is he simply crashing [...]

Oh yes – lest anyone accuse Gordon Brown and the British Government of standing by and doing nothing during such hard times. They’ve taken an important stand that will no doubt convince the world that they stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Zimbabwean people. They’ve refused visas to an under-15 cricket team, who were due to transit [...]

I get the distinct impression that Judge Tendai Uchena is waiting for someone else to solve his problem. As the unfortunate soul who ended up handling the MDC’s petition for an order forcing ZEC to release the Presidential election results, you can almost picture him looking around desperately for a way to avoid having to [...]

Finally, Zimbabwe’s regional neighbours are starting to weigh in on the issue – and they don’t seem to be agreeing with Thabo Mbeki’s assessment that the situation was “manageable”. First out of the blocks was ANC leader Jacob Zuma: “I think keeping the nation in suspense, and as you know, the Zimbabwean issue has become [...]

Quite often it seems that every time someone posts a humourous look at the situation in Zimbabwe, a comment soon appears berating the poster for making fun of what is a deadly serious situation.  But humour is one of the mind’s great coping mechanisms – make fun of a situation and you can let off [...]

The contents of this news report likely won’t surprise anyone – everyone’s been suspecting for a few days now that Zanu-PF would revert to form, and so it’s begun. All this despite some apparent pressure from a usually effective persauder to get Bob to stand aside gracefully (scroll down past the court stuff) – I [...]

Of all the websites I’ve uncovered while trying to keep up with events in Zim over the past week or so, none has impressed me quite as much as Sokwanele – their archive of the results by constituency is the only place with anything even close to the level of detail you get from UK [...]