Commenting on the power-sharing agreement just concluded in Zimbabwe, the South African president Kgalema Motlanthe has said:
We are more keen to take our cue from the people of Zimbabwe themselves... rather than try to impose on them our own solutions.
That is more or less the opposite of the truth. It is, as one might say, the wrong way round. The agreement backs Robert Mugabe in ignoring the result of last year's elections in Zimbabwe and colludes in the 'solution' he then imposed on the country by violence.