After last weeks positive signs from Zimbabwe, Mugabe, once again, have showed his true face.

Yesterday, he announced plans to ignore the negotiations with the opposition, form a sham “Government of National Unity” with a breakaway opposition faction, and open parliament next week, according to Avaaz. And a moment ago, the news reported that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have been taken by police at the airport in Harare.

The crisis are not over in Zimbabwe, and now the world hope that the SADC-meeting this in Johannesburg this weekend, when 15 Southern African leaders, including Mugabe are attending. The only way to solve this issue in a peaceful way are if the neighbor countries show their strong critic of Mugabe both in public and in private with sanctions, diplomatic pressure and other methods.

The region’s powerful trade unions have threatened that unless Southern African leaders take action now, they will refuse to handle goods coming to or from Zimbabwe and will squeeze Mugabe out. A march this weekend backed by 100,000 supporters from around the world will hopefully be a overwhelming signal to Southern African leaders that they must act now before the crisis becomes even more desperate — to announce that the Mbeki-led negotiations have failed, and to launch a new and fairer negotiating process immediately.

The civil society are responding, and hopefully the political leaders will follow.