Australian Prime Minister John Howard is the latest to call for the Zimbabwe leader,Robert Mugabe, to be deposed. This follows an attack by Mugabe on the Australian government for assisting the escape of an opposition member to South Africa for medical treatment.Policy secretary Sekai Holland and her husband Jim were escorted to the Harare airport by the Australian consul where they were flown to South Africa.


"This man [Mugabe] is a disaster, his country is just a total heap of misery," Mr Howard said. "We pussyfoot around far too much using diplomatic language."

"I think it's time that the neighboring African countries, particularly South Africa, excerted political pressure on Mugabe to go,"