We have food aid intended for children seized and handed out at a Mugabe rally, which would be bad parody if it weren’t true.

We’ve also had MDC’s number two man, Secretary General Tendai Biti, arrested and charged with treason, which carries a death penalty, for writing a document describing a transition to MDC rule.

It appears that the judiciary is functioning on some level though, as a judge has directed the police to bring him to court tomorrow.

Mugabe is merrily escalating the violance, deploying more ‘war vetrans’ to the campaign, and telling them that they should be Mugabe says war vets ready for battle.

The UN secretary general is sending Haile Menkerios as a high ranking envoy to Zimbabwe in an attempt to resolve this issue, but I do not think that it will do any good.