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In case you are wondering why the red face picture today and tomorrow I just heard this red alert from a friend of a friend in South Africa. In many ways I hope it isn't true as it sounds a hugely risky thing for anyone to do in that part of the world at the present time. Read more »

There are only 26 days until the Run-Off Election for position of President of Zimbabwe. Earlier in the year Morgan Tsvangirai leading the Movement of Democratic Change had the title of President stolen from him by a corrupt military junta. Statesman-like in his acceptance of the need for a run-off, Tsvangirai warned neighbouring states to send in their observers by the the 1st of June or they may as well not bother on account of the levels of violence already existing then.

More recently The Archbishop of Canterbury and The Archbishop of Cape Town have gone public over their difficulty to understand the lack of real effective action by the United Nations.

Well, I wonder. As the news trickles out of Zimbabwe over the next couple of days will it include the fact that observers are in place on the ground, that the military thugs have vanished into the night, and that peace and quiet has resumed? Or will we find this countdown to the 2008 Zimbabwean Presidential "Run-Off" Election becomes a diary of shame? Read more »

In the light of post election persecution of teachers who ran poll stations returning the "wrong" results in Zimbabwe's recent elections, I have just asked our Prime Minister if he is going to invite pupils worldwide to write to Robert Mugabe expressing concern for:

• teachers in fear of their lives,
• pupils who miss learning, and
• exams that cannot be run even.

It happens the form of the question was by way of Twitter: Read more »