[mightyeye]

There were reports recently of an attempted military coup d'Etat (last Thurs.), which unfortunately led to failure as mugabe's secret police the CIO had an informer on the inside. Details are very sketchy.

There are a great many Zimbabweans in exile, an estimated 500,000 are here and many more in South Africa etc, many send cash home and the effect of this may have kept the regime going or delay change, otherwise the deaths from hunger and disease would have reached high figures or revolution from below may have swept mugabe from power.

Sooner or later change will come and the whole mugabe - zanu pf regime will be swept aside. Unfortunately, the opposition parties are poorly led and unlikely to lead an uprising something of which frightens leaders such as Tsvangirai (main MDC leader) as much as mugabe. A successful military coup d'Etat is still likely to be the catalyst for change, then of course, the danger is that Mbeki the South African president might want to rescue his good friend.