Botswana see it like it is

Botswana on Monday said it will lobby southern African leaders for an audit of Zimbabwe's disputed elections, calling into question the fairness of President Robert Mugabe's victory. Foreign affairs minister Phandu Skelemani said Botswana was concerned that Wednesday's vote had not measured up to Southern African Development Community (SADC) guidelines."Various incidents and circumstances were revealed that call into question whether the entire electoral process, and thus its final result, can be recognized as having been fair, transparent and credible," he said in rare African criticism of the vote. Western nations have voiced serious doubts about Zimbabwe's election - slammed as "fraudulent" by the opposition - after it extended 89-year-old Mugabe's 33 years in power.