Aren’t we getting a little bit sick of this?

Whenever the situation in Zimbabwe becomes too much for the politicians in the country to handle, they turn to SADC and ask them to mediate to resolve the issue - and what do SADC do? They have a summit to talk about talking about it!

I have stated, on many occasions that Mugabe is a past master on delaying tactics. He will embark upon negotiations and these will last forever, and then, having almost sorted the problem, the mediator announces a ‘breakthrough’ which doesn’t happen and the situation resets itself for yet another summit and so on…

But perhaps the point that irks me more than any other is the fact that Mugabe somehow dictates the pace of events in Zimbabwe and he heads a political party that lost the election last year.

Why do the regional authorities accept this? Why do the governments in the area accept what Mugabe does to his own people? Why do they insist on letting Mugabe get away with nothing short of murder?

Why waste more time, resource, people and money talking into a vacuum when Mugabe is never going to go along with whatever is decided, and he will be thankful for the additional days that he has in power?

Mugabe sees each day as a victory. Time is his friend.

We know that he and his party faithful have stripped Zimbabwe of virtually anything and everything worth having, that they have private accounts scattered throughout the world that are filled to overflowing with public funds stolen from the people of Zimbabwe.

An example of this is easy. An audit of a government department revealed huge corruption.

“The Comptroller and Auditor-General has made more shocking revelations that expose gross abuse of state resources, with government vehicles being taken away by top government officials and state assets, fuel coupons and cash being misappropriated.

In her report for the first quarter of 2009 financial year tabled in parliament last week the Comptroller and Auditor-General Mildred Chiri showed how rampant corruption is in government.

In addition to the cars being possessed by ministers and their deputies and permanent secretaries, the report revealed that state assets such as laptops, computers, fax machines, cell phones and spares of cars were stolen but no police reports were made.