While South African leaders are just too happy to share the spoils of being in power so they do not bother to intervene in the Zimbabwean messy elections, a Chinese ship carrying arms to Zimbabwe has left a South African port after workers would not unload it.
The An Yue Jiang（安岳江）, owned by the para-statal Chinese Ocean Shipping Company, was forced to move after a South African court refused to allow the weapons on board to be transported across the country.
Dock workers had refused to unload the weapons shipment from the vessel, which had been anchored off the port of Durban for four days.
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union had said it did "not agree with the position of the [South African] government not to intervene". Reports say the An Yue Jiang is carrying three million rounds of ammunition, 1,500 rocket-propelled grenades and 2,500 mortar rounds.
This truly beautiful sentiment should really put to shame people like President Thabo Mbeki and the ilk for their blatant disregard for democracy. Like the Forbes rightly noted, a peaceful transfer of power in Zimbabwe "will not be because of [Mbeki], but in spite of him."
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