These photographs were taken the day before yesterday. The two men are MDC MT supporters based on Mashonaland East. They, and others, were viciously assaulted by Zanu PF militia on Tuesday night. Three houses were burned down in the same area in ongoing attacks. This must be stopped!

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Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has called an emergency meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to discuss the Zimbabwean presidential poll delay. This is the first move by Zimbabwe's regional neighbours to intervene since the elections on 29th March 2008. President Mwanawasa is the current Chairman of the 14-nation South African Development Community.

That is because it has already been over colonised starting with the British who swapped flags with us on 18 April 1980, followed by the North Koreans who helped us decimate our population by 20 000 people, then very briefly the Malaysians. After that, there was a lull until Ghadaffi took a short walk to colonialism across the bridge at the Chirundu border post. Driving to Harare, his beady eye caught sight of rolling farmland after rolling farmland. He even stopped along the way to announce to bemused peasants that he was now lord of the revolution. By the time he reached Harare the ink was barely dry on the deals that mortgaged Zimbabwean land for oil that never provided the much-touted panacea to self-inflicted Zimbabwean economic ills.

Then Ghadaffi let down our dear leader by selling out to the west and going to bed with Blair.

The news that Bob is going to step down after the 2008 elections should not be greeted with relief but with the disbelief and suspicion that it so thoroughly deserves. We know all too well from experience that this man's word cannot be trusted and it is folly for the press to even hint that we should expect such a kind gesture from the man who has ruined us.

There is something that seems to escape public discourse in this country and that is the fact that this man has outwitted us from the word go. His plan has been simple: acquire power and having acquired it, retain it all costs as Zvobgo once pointed out to us. His problem is not greed for power as many have tried to explain. The dilemma he has is the number of atrocities that have been committed under his watch and now he is afraid to take the stand and account for them. That is his problem.