"it probably would not have been free and fair"

Reading Brett's article this morning, 'Let's Do Away With Elections Altogether', made me realise that I was not the only one thinking about governance and how strange it was that I wished Jacob Zuma, a known homophobe, was already in office.

In the early 1980s, when I was at university in England, an official of the South African apartheid government came to speak to students of the debating society.

I was perhaps too sweeping when I said yesterday that it is not in the personality of Zimbabweans to take to the streets. Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) have made brave peaceful protests as have the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), lawyers and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), Crisis in Zimbabwe etc. They have all been met with brutal attacks by police.

Zimbabweans spend all their time at the moment talking in open and helpless disbelief that the elections are being stolen from them.

I sit here at my desk at GALZ, on Wednesday 2nd April, refreshing the home page of www.Kubatana.net every few minutes hoping to see something more from the final results of the 2008 harmonised elections. I haven't been able to work for two days and I have never watched so much ZTV in my life, most of which has been jive dancing and dated documentaries. I saw one about saving a sick dolphin, another about the filming of a rare species of baboon and a beginners class for djembe drummers. I watched one on Zimbabwean sculpture three times - and I'd already seen it before!

GALZ: on the path to LGBTI freedom in Zimbabwe