"Revolutionary" Mbeki deserves special honour?

Mbeki deserves special honour
The Herald, 18/4/2008
EDITOR — I wish to commend Reason Wafawarova for his incisive analyses of the Zimbabwean situation and for keeping the fire burning. It just goes to show that you cannot kill a revolution ... President Mbeki needs to be specially commended and honoured by the whole Zimbabwean leadership and people for the sterling work that he has been doing in the past eight years. His "quiet diplomacy" and "soft power", are actually not as quiet as the world wants to believe ... Zimbabwe, as we celebrate 28 years of nationhood today, should say a big "THANK YOU" to this gallant son of Africa, just as we are saying thank you again to our gallant sons and daughters who sacrificed limb and soul for the independence of this nation. There is no substitute for genuine friendship; just like there will be no substitute for homegrown, genuine regional co-operation and integration. The least we can do is name one of our roads after Cde Mbeki ... As Wafawarova put it: "President Mbeki has had to face the agony of eight-and-a-half years of a crisis-waving Britain, but the ever alert and revolutionary Mbeki has not been fooled, even once. "He saw no crisis with the land reclamation . . . He saw no crisis with the 2000, 2002 and 2005 elections . . ." ... President Mbeki also made the same statement a week earlier when he told dinner guests in London: "We have been very pleased with the manner in which the elections were conducted ...