For goodness sake, there is a crisis in Zimbabwe!

South Africa's Thabo Mbeki is at the very end of his second and last term in office. He has spent most of the past 10 years of his presidency engaged in Zimbabwean issues because of the crisis that has been festering in that country for a very long time.

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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