Global Pulse Blog

(Cartoon from the Chattanooga Times Free Press)

According to Desmond Tutu, from CNN:

The situation in Zimbabwe is “degenerating into one of the worst nightmares you could imagine,” he said. “I said, almost a year ago, I said, it looked like this man is bonkers. And that we need to intervene.”

Tutu was asked what he would say to Mugabe if given the opportunity.

“I would say to him, look, man, you had a reputation that many people respected as a liberation fighter; you liberated your people from the shackles of colonial rule, and there was a chance of your being able to salvage a great deal of that legacy,” he said.

“Please, please, for your own sake, for the sake of Zimbabwe, for the sake of Africa, step down.”