Mugabe must go!

It is not without a certain sense of irony now to hear African leaders begin raising their voices calling for Mugabe of Zimbabwe to step down...to go away. It is long evident that Mr. Mugabe had ascended to the ranks of the meglomanic, but nary a word was raised for his removal from office outside of his own country. In Zimbabwe, Mr. Mugabe has done everything that he could to emasculate the opposition by any means possible. Yet despite his meanest efforts, the opposition fights on. Outside Zimbabwe, even South Africa's Tabo Mbeki had the squeak of a mouse in trying to square Mr. Mugabe's circle. For, Mr. Mugabe was calling in his chits, supporting as he did South Africa's ANC in its long struggle against apartheid; he skilfully played his anti colonists cards to shame other African leaders to put a damper on any criticism of him and his iron fisted rule. Now, it seems the fear of the dreaded cholera has put the fire of fear across southern and eastern Africa; for that horrid and lethal disease knows no boundry. Furthermore, Kenya's leader has put out a call to raise any army of African states if Mr. Mugabe does not resign from power, to invade and remove him manu militari. Something that they sneezed at when it came to Sudan's war in Dafur. Mugabe won't go, and unless his praetorian guard engineer a coup there is little that the feckless leaders in Africa can do.