Sanctions can not be removed until the 'talks' have succeeded. People talked on 29 March 2008 and Mugabe rejected their calls for him to step down. Actually, I don't understand what Tsvangirai and Mugabe are talking about. Are they discussing Mugabe's assertion that Tsvangirai will never rule Zimbabwe? Or is Tsvangirai asking Mugabe to listen to Zimbabweans who resoundly called on Mugabe to go on 29 March 2008? Their discussions should reflect the expressed will of Zimbabweans (on 29 March 2008)that Mugabe's time is up and not the sham on 27 June 2008 which even embarrassed and shocked Mugabe himself as he got 85% instead of the 51% he intended to get. Where on this earth can you find 34% of voters willing switching their votes from a person they initially voted for. In the second round the competition between Mugabe and Tsvangirai should have been on the 8% of total votes cast, which Makoni got, mainly from the opposition stronghold of Matebeleland. The people of Matebeleland are strongly anti ZANU (PF) and almost all the 8% was going to go to Tsvangirai, giving him at least 54% of the total votes if Mugabe maintained his previous tally.

Question posed by a dim minister and quoted by an equally dim editor of the herald in the above article: On Tuesday, the Secretary for Information and Publicity, Cde George Charamba, noted the West's hypocritical behaviour in the composition of their illegal sanctions.

He asked why companies like Unilever and Caltex, which are American-owned, were allowed to supply their products to State House and the Office of the President if the West was so much against what they call "propping up the regime".

Answer from an average bloke: Because they are targetted sanctions bozo!!! mugarbage is NOT allowed to travel with his mistress to buy shiny toys from Harrods and bloomingdales..geddit now??? Will lobby the moderator of this site to enable graphics so we can present it in simple picture drawings for you to understand if you are still in the dark!!!