Boss Robert and the End Game.

Image via WikipediaChristopher Hitchens, writing in Slate.com reviews my old school mate Peter Godwin's book 'The Fear'.

More about the seemingly endless last days of Robert Mugabe.

Written before the last election that resulted in a so-called 'power sharing' with Morgan Tsvangirai MDC, it updates '...the continuing story of popular resistance.'

Unfortunately all hope of a Zimbabwean 'Jasmine' revolution inspired by the current 'Arab Spring' revolts will not lead to any revolutionary winds of change but, as Hitchen's says:

 'One day, the civic resistance to this, which was often looked-down upon by people considering themselves revolutionary, will earn the esteem and recognition it deserves.'

One day Boss Robert will be blown away...one day.

Zimbabwe: Bob and South Africa - Nothing Has Changed.

Image via Wikipedia"South Africa, which is supposed to be "facilitating" a solution in Zimbabwe to the three-year-old power struggle between Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), seems to have adopted the 87-year-old dictator's view on the perniciousness of the West's targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe."

Not sure why anyone things anything will ever change in Zimbabwe as long as Robert Mugabe is alive. Maybe we should start a new movement:

The WBD - The "When Bob is Dead" movement!

See Pesky sanctions

From The Economist blog Boabab