A link to a short prison experience landed today, but was preceded by this quotation from Nelson Mandela (no source cited):
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.
The Zimbabwe prison experience:http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=7292

Secondly I spotted an advert for this new book by Paul Moorcraft 'Mugabe's War Machine Saving on Savaging Zimbabwe?':http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Mugab...achine/p/3196/