More results are flowing in from Zim after a re-count aimed at boosting Mugabe's lead in the recent elections. There was no parliamentary gain for Comrade Robert, and the MDC, Morgan Tsangvirai's party, has clearly won. However, in a country like Zimbabwe nothing is regarded as normal. While the President in waiting sits outside the country, Mugabe's thugs clamp down on the MDC and brutally beat the winning party faithful. Like Sese Seko and Tshombe and countless others the thugs appear when they are losing. This is not just a coup d' etat----this is a dictatorial rejection of an election.

Zimbabwe reminds me of South Africa until De Klerk came to his senses. It also reminds me of a brutal regime that will not abdicate power---you do not have enough fingers to count them off. However, there is some sunshine: African states have agreed to an arms embargo on Zimbabwe and that is a start. There is talk of Mugabe fading into the background gracefully as he is a "lion of Liberation"

I wonder. He should be hung in a public square like Mussolini. Bugger the "lion of liberation." He has murdered thousands, cannot produce a good corn cob from his lands and has crippled his land in every way. He has displaced 3 million of his citizens and torn their houses down. He has won the world record for inflation in a country and his country is bankrupt, bleeding and broken.

Does this man deserve a worthwhile retirement?