We are fast approaching the year anniversary of the fragile alliance that is Zimbabwe’s Unity Government,” and while the worst aspects of the country’s economic disaster have stabilized, virtually no progress has been made on breaking the impasse that has set in between Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF and Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC. And of course such an impasse benefits Mugabe, who has shown no inclination to compromise because in this case, a stalemate keeps him in power. And let there be no mistake about it — between Mugabe and Tsvangirai, the system is currently stacked so that Mugabe is first among equals.