Progressive Zimbabweans, enlightened Africans and democrats with a keen interest in Zimbabwean politics can now reach a verdict that president Thabo Mbeki of South Africa has irretrievably lost his Pan African bearings. For all his eccentric adventurism and misdeamenors, African National Congress [ANC] boss Jacob Zuma, compared to Mr Mbeki, would now easily pass for a saint on his constructive perspective of the Zimbabwean situation....