The document that provides for a government of national unity to end Robert Mugabe's tyranny in Zimbabwe is riddled with contradictions and ambiguities (see page 63). No one knows whether it will work. If justice had anything to do withrnit, Morgan Tsvangirai, having won a general election and the first round of a presidential one at the end of March on a playing field tilted like a ski-jump in favour of the incumbent, would be indisputably in charge. But the agreement, signed in Zimbabwe this week under the aegis of South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki, is a dramatic turning point all the same. Mr Mugabe is no longer wholly in charge. That is a huge change. The task now for Zimbabweans and outsiders who wish them well is to try, against the odds, to make a bad deal work.
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