Robert Mugabe, one of nature's gentlemen; not!

Robert Mugabe is in the news again, for all the wrong reasons; The Guardian reports:

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe told critics of his re-election to "go hang" on Monday, making clear he would brook no questioning of his disputed victory, either from the west or his main rival, who is challenging the result in court.
In his first public speech since he and his Zanu-PF party were declared overwhelming winners of the July 31 presidential and parliamentary elections, Mugabe dismissed his defeated rivals as "pathetic puppets" and "western-sponsored stooges".
The rival Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party, led by Morgan Tsvangirai, filed a court challenge on Friday against Mugabe's announced landslide re-election, alleging widespread vote-rigging and intimidation of electors by Zanu-PF.
"We won so overwhelmingly that some people are hurting badly," Mugabe told a rally in Harare to mark Heroes Day, an annual celebration of those who fought to liberate Zimbabwe from white minority rule, leading to its independence in 1980.
"If they cannot stomach it, they can go and hang," he added, drawing cheers from thousands of Zanu-PF supporters.
Tsvangirai's MDC, which calls the vote on 31 July a "monumental fraud", boycotted the rally at the National Heroes Acre shrine, saying it did not want to associate with "election thieves".
Mugabe, vilified as a ruthless dictator in the west but described by some as Africa's most educated leader because of the slew of academic degrees he earned during a decade in jail under then Rhodesia's white rulers, did not mince his words to heap scorn on his frustrated MDC election rivals.
"After their death, even dogs will not have their bodies for meat. They will sniff at their flesh, and pass on," he said in Shona, the language of Zimbabwe's ethnic majority. He described his victory as a "mystical thunderbolt" against his enemies.
Zimbabwe's constitution says the country's top court must rule within 14 days on the MDC challenge. Analysts predict the challenge is unlikely to prosper because they say Zanu-PF dominates the judiciary and state institutions.

Mugabe is living proof of Lord Acton's famous quote, that "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely". Does anyone seriously believe that the Zimbabwean election was free and fair?

But this latest outburst from Mugabe is disgusting, even by his past standards. It is time that the world's leaders, beginning with Jacob Zuma in South Africa demanded change and true democracy in Zimbabwe. 

Mugabe's dictatorship has destroyed a once-proud land, and Africa especially has condoned Mugabe's excesses. It is time that the world held Robert Mugabe to account.