Zimbabwe: What crisis?

While on leave... "There is no crisis in Zimbabwe"...So says the deluded South African President Thabo Mbeki today. Am I the only person that thinks it seems so staged?

Could he perhaps explain why the presidential election results haven't been released, even though they were counted nearly two weeks ago? The people are starving? The people expect a change. Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe isn't going to attend the African the summit - he said he had other business to attend to.

For a leader like Mbeki to condone Mugabe's actions is incredible. Why doesn't South Africa force Mugabe to release the election results? We all know they have the power to do, being a prominent country with influence. African countries say that Mbeki ought to be using the factual results instead of creeping round a failed long-term dictator. If a decisive decision isn't made soon, the world will not accept a bad result, and more importantly, neither will Zimbabwe.