For goodness sake, there is a crisis in Zimbabwe!
Friday, April 18, 2008
Mbeki came up with the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and set standards, among which was 'good governance'. But NEPAD folded three days ago and Mbeki had to let go of a failure he created. But comedy continues as NEPAD is now to be run by the African Union.
Several years ago, Mbeki introduced 'quiet diplomacy' on Zimbabwe as a way of covering for Robert Mugabe's excesses. He failed to bring sanity to Zimbabwean politics.
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