This petition should really be appealing to South African leaders and South Africa’s governing party the ANC to step up and condemn Mugabe and demand his resignation from government. They are the only ones who have the credibility to do so as both freedom fighters during the anti-apartheid struggle and democratically elected leaders of Africa’s most powerful country.

However it isn’t very likely that South African politicians will be courageous enough to do this given the almost complete absence of outside political or international pressure on them to do so. The ANC revolutionary heroes seem to turn into kittens when faced with one of their own run amok.