Fresh from his AIDS denialist activity, Thabo Mbeki is now about to start a fresh assault on reason and evidence:

South Africa has also blamed Britain for the deepening crisis in Zimbabwe, accusing it of leading a campaign to “strangle” the beleaguered African state’s economy and saying it has a “death wish” against a negotiated settlement that might leave Mr Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party in power.

According to a South African government document that the president, Thabo Mbeki, is expected to present at a regional summit this week, Britain remains a significant obstacle by spearheading sanctions.

“The most worrisome thing is that the UK continues to deny its role as the principal protagonist in the Zimbabwean issue and is persisting with its activities to isolate Zimbabwe,” the report says.

Mugabe took farms from white farmers, gave them to his cronies and made them into non-farms with unemployed and now starving black workers. (He could have taken the farms and given them to black farmers - you know those people who know how to make food.)

He has completely destroyed a country, without any help from an invading force, using economic carpet bombing. Inflation is running at 20,000% and he has recently inprisoned 7000 shopkeepers.

And that’s the UK’s fault how?