By the way, I have no more idea what yesterday's Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announcement that ZANU-PF lost parliament, as most assumed, mean any more than anyone else does. Robert Mugabe has experienced setbacks before (think of the hair-breadth 2000 Parliamentary election or the 1999 defeat of Mugabe's proposed constitutional changes) but never have the vultures swooped so close to the carrion of his own power as they do today. I still imagine that Mugabe will maintain his hold, however tenuous, on power.
