Come on Timesonline, let's have a positive campaign supporting the SADC leaders in Lusaka tomorrow.

The people of Zimbabwe are asking for support: not for violence or recriminations. Just simple emails of support to SADC in their work tomorrow to find a resolution.

The numbers and addresses are listed in the Sokwanele blog - sorry no url - because previous comments have been blocked.

We hope this will get through to the people who want to abandon all the negative rhetoric and do something positive today.

Olney, Olney, UK

Zimbabwe this moment is like a pot of boiling water with a tight lid, it is going to explode and evil will have an excuse to intimidate and control the citizens unless diplomatic pressure is applied by Zimbabwe's neighbours. This situation needs to be dealt with by various African countries. Africa can not lay the blame on the West for this one.

Shawn, Carrying Place, Canada

Mugabe, with his thugs, is a dictator. There is usually only one way to get rid of them. After Iraq, we have seen the media opposition to military interference, so why is this same media not delighted that the UK etc are doing nothing, sorry applying gentle diplomacy.

William D H Carey, Schoten 2900, Belgium

if Zimbabweans go to the street, they literally hand Mugabe victory because all he has to do then is declare a state of emergency and the already non-functioning system comes a grinding halt. And those who could help merely stand and watch and state that the situation is, let us call it ‘manageable’. If I am to ever meet Mbeki in person I would say, ‘So, how is the quiet diplomacy working out for you?’ I’m sure that kind of approach is what removed him from the seat of ANC President. Who would want a leader who is always sitting on the fence, and unable to take a side? Not all things in life are in the ‘grey area’; sometimes there is just ‘wrong’ and ‘right’. And it’s not like the situation in Zimbabwe will not affect our county. The worse things get in Zimbabwe the more illegal Zimbabweans that will flood into South Africa. If the worst comes to the worst, and they is civil unrest in Zimbabwe, South Africa is sure to lose the 2010 bid, and what happens then. With all the time and mone

Semayi, Cape Town,

With all the time and money they have put in already, it would not surprise me if South Africa ends up in an economic slump. As for the other countries around the borders of Zimbabwe; I don’t have much to say. Instead of helping Zimbabwe, they are only seeking to benefit from the turmoil, because all it means for them is that they will have access to cheap educated labour. Why else would the President of Mozambique not speak out on what is going on in Zimbabwe, but instead say he would open up is border to those Zimbabwean who want to leave the country. Sad.
And then African leader wonder why developed countries do not take us seriously. We help ourselves and never each other.

Semayi, Cape Town,

1) In reply to Daniel Emlyn-Jones...the funeral of Mugabe's son took place in Ghana , thousands of miles away from his place of imprisonment.
2)The majority of the population of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia in 1980, felt that election to be neither free nor fair, and were dismayed when Britain proclaimed it to be valid.
3) Mugabe was ever the tyrant.

P Dickinson, Salisbury, Wiltshire

Mr Mugabe is now no longer the main problem. It is the military and Zanu pf who are now desperate to avoid any sort of justice, or removal of their bribes, farms and corrupt dealings.

Mugabe is a figurehead they are using to protect themselves, if he goes, then there is no "Anti Western Liberation Hero" card to play and Mbeki might ge off his bakside and do domething.

Alisdair budd, Southend, uk