I have just found this link to an mp3 file of Benjamin Zander, the conductor, talking at Davos 2008.

It is his philosophy of leadership and “radiating possibility. As we have a long wait till Monday, people may find it relaxing and inspiring to listen to the “possibilities that human beings are”. It is rather long, so if someone inside in Zimbabwe can download it with quicktime, it might be good.

“Possibility is always only one sentence away. No matter how difficult the task or dreadful the situation, possibility is only one sentence away.”

It is very much worth listening to the end.

Stay safe.

Hope is not lost - no pun intended.

Everyone outside - consider who you can telephone or email in the country you are in, and ask what is the position viz the talks and whether their representatives in the SADC region are able to represent our views. Remember they are busy with their own issues. They will only attend to ours if we ask. Lets get on their agenda and stay there!

There is probably well over 1 million if not 2 million Zimbabweans outside the country. We can get the phones humming. Let’s invite our local colleagues to do the same thing.

Express our opinion that we would like a solution that is peaceful and lawful and we would welcome any assistance that our hosts can extend to us.