When will AU, SADC find their voice on Zimbabwe?

Despite a ferocious backlash by Zimbabwe's authorities to a flurry of popular protests against poor governance and a sinking economy, the African Union and the SA Development Community have failed to clearly condemn the crackdown and ''ban'' on further protests.This will not surprise Zimbabweans old enough to remember the government's merciless and bloody campaign against the Ndebele people in 1982, or the systematic violence and manipulation that marred the 2002 and 2008 elections that allowed ...