THERE was a great deal of expectation --almost certainly misplaced -- before last week's Sadc meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, that the regional leaders would finally gather enough diplomatic grit and moral fibre to tackle the Zimbabwe crisis once and for all.
Sadc leaders could not, observers reasoned, just stand by and watch a key country at the heart of the regional bloc self-destruct. The consequences of that to the embattled Zimbabwean people and collateral damage to the region would be too ghastly to contemplate.
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