people seem not to see that there is little mbeki can do to mugabe firstly because they are like father and son and mugabe will not listen to his son, secondly because mugabe is too old to reason. he would rather die in power than move out of state house. whichever way you look at it mugabe knows he has lost elections and given another election process with a level playing field he will loose again. mugabe will never win any election in zimbabwe. what african leaders or western leaders should do is to enforce the idea of peacekeepers and outrightly codemn friday's poll. its even better to impose more sanctions on harare like oil embargo, neighbouring countries closing their boarders, withdrawing various diplomatic instistutions from zimbabwe, eg embassies. i know we zimbabweans will suffer but it will be for a short time a nd then things normalise again. just imagine people are living on just us40c a month. its pathetic we are suffering here