The Wire

leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tzanghirai, pulled out of Friday’s run-off election in Zimbabwe early this week The immediate effect has been to focus world attention on the corrupt Mugabe regime and on the violence happening in the country, and to move the UN Security Council to action . Charles Matope is the Australian representative of the Movement For Democratic Change in Zimbabwe – he says the best effect of Tzanghirai’s actions this week has been that other African leaders are beginning to put pressure on the Mugabe regime.