Media Talk: Zimbabwe in Meltdown

With Zimbabwe spiralling out of control, can Mugabe be ousted, who can rebuild a shattered nation and why are Zimbabwe neighbours doing so little?

With Zimbabwe spiralling out of control, can Mugabe be ousted, who can rebuild a shattered nation and why are Zimbabwe neighbours doing so little?

Another Mugabe crackdown on the opposition in Zimbabwe resulted in 50 arrests and with the leader of the main opposition party the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai severely beaten. Another opposition spokesman Nelson Chamisa was beaten unconscious in Harare airport as he was about to fly to Brussels.

With little or no support from African nations, all attempts to change the brutal regime in Zimbabwe by the West remain unsuccessful, while Mugabe indicated that he is going to run for office in the 2008 elections again.

Our panel discusses the ways of changing the status quo in this poverty-ridden country.

Lord Triesman is the Minister for Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Wilf Mbanga is the Founder, Publisher and Editor of The Zimbabwean newspaper, author of Van Onze Correspondent and co-author of Seretse and Ruth Khama.

Gugu Moyo is the Zimbabwean lawyer of the International Bar Association.

Bill Saidi is the deputy editor of The Standard in Zimbabwe (NB! Bill Saidi is not speaking on behalf of the newspaper). Via phone link.

Others-TBC.

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