The Africans are not going to intervene," he said at the re-launch of the CCJP/ Legal Resources Foundation report on the massacres in Matabeleland and the Midlands which cost at least 20,000 lives between 1980 and1988._"The African Union and the SADC are not going to do anything because, in point of fact, Mugabe has taken the land from the colonisers and in the eyes of African history he will be a hero.
What is happening now is a blink in history. It's a very sad and slow blink for the people who are suffering it - but Mugabe has taken back the land "he has avenged colonization and that's why President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa is walking backwards quickly."_At the same time Mike Auret - one of the most outspoken human rights activists when Ian Smith ran Rhodesia in the 1960s/1970s - said that he was outraged that Mugabe and a team of foreign policy advisers had been invited to attend an EU/Africa summit meeting in Lisbon in December._"There should be a howl of rage if they are invited.
