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South Africa should cut off Zimbabwe electricity: Australian ex-PM
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SYDNEY (AFP) - - South Africa should cut off Zimbabwe's electricity supply to force its recalcitrant leader, Robert Mugabe, to relinquish power, former Australian prime minister Malcolm Fraser has said.
Fraser, who was head of government when Mugabe came to power in 1980 ending many decades of minority white rule in Zimbabwe, said all measures short of military force should be used to oust the leader of the crippled nation.
But he stressed it was up to Zimbabwe's neighbours, led by powerful South Africa, to help effect change in the hungry and cholera-stricken country, saying the crisis was "not something that white faces can solve."
"It's my understanding that South Africa was in the capacity to turn off electricity supplies to Zimbabwe," Fraser told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio service late Monday.
"Short of war, all measures to bring pressure to bear on Zimbabwe or on Mugabe ought to be examined and entertained," he said.
Turning off the lights in a nation where the population is already suffering untold hardship is a better option than military force, Fraser said.
"A direct military intervention would have a greater impact on the population," he said. "Doing nothing has an enormous impact."
The United States' top US envoy for Africa, Jendayi Frazer, said earlier this week that Washington had lost confidence in Zimbabwe's power-sharing deal as long as Mugabe is president,
But the defiant 84-year-old has said he would not go to his "political death."
"I will never, never, never, never surrender. Zimbabwe is mine," he told the annual conference of the ZANU-PF ruling party on Friday.
But Australia's Fraser said more could be done by Zimbabwe's neighbours to effect change, especially by South Africa, whose former president, Thabo Mbeki, he flayed for failing to take a tougher stance towards Mugabe.
"If there were South African leadership you would have a unified position which would be anti-Mugabe.
"It's not something that white faces can solve. Africa is going to have to solve it and the sooner they do so the better," Fraser told the ABC.
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