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The main African body meant to ensure a fair poll is the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a club of 14 countries (including Zimbabwe), some of whose members rarely have proper polls of their own.

This does not seem to upset Mr Mbeki at all.With Mr Tsvangirai's decision to run one more time, SADC and Africa's leaders have a chance to redeem themselves.

Now, with SADC apparently unwilling to squeeze Mr Mugabe, the old man and his friends can breathe more easily for a while yet.

A SADC tribunal ruled last year that the seizures were illegal, but Zimbabwe's government now refuses to recognise the tribunal's legitimacy.Meanwhile, Zanu-PF is doing its utmost to delay drafting a new constitution and to prevent fresh elections, which it knows it is virtually certain to lose.

Instead, Mr Tsvangirai was fobbed off with the promise that a committee of three SADC members would eventually "review" the unity government that took office in February.

More significantly, Congo is now co-operating militarily with Sudan so both countries can together squeeze their common enemy, Uganda.Angola's war is also about to restart and the government there is seeking SADC support for its offensive against UNITA rebels.

"The dollar chose Zimbabwe, not the other way around," says a Harare-based economist.Having played along with the SADC-sponsored reconciliation, Mr Mugabe has now changed tack in a bid to extend his presidency.

On October 4th the president and prime minister met to discuss the time-table established by the Southern African Development Community SADCC), a 15-member regional club that acts as the guarantor of the power-sharing deal, to implement the pact.

And the despotic 85-year-old president still calls the shots in what is supposed to be a partnership of equals.From the outset, Mr Mugabe and his party hardliners have been bent on scuppering a deal imposed on them by the Southern African Development Community SADCC), a 15-country regional group, taking every opportunity to thwart and humiliate Mr Tsvangirai and his MDC ministers.

AT LAST the Southern African Development Community SADCC), an influential club of 15 countries that has overseen the regional diplomacy intended to solve Zimbabwe's troubles, is showing signs that it may be prepared to squeeze President Robert Mugabe a bit harder.

In the past, the Southern African Development Community SADCC), an influential 15-country regional club which South Africa unofficially leads, has whitewashed flawed polls in Mr Mugabe's favour.