Growing Calls for Zimbabwean President to Step Down

(08 Dec 08 - RV) The European Union joined calls today for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to step down.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, said in a speech President Mugabe must go and added Zimbabwe has suffered enough."
Meanwhile South African government officials were in Zimbabwe today assessing the scale of the humanitarian crisis there.
Basic foodstuffs are running out and a cholera epidemic has already killed at least 575 people, infected thousands and has spread to South Africa, Mozambique, and Zambia.
We spoke to the Spokesperson for the London based Zimbabwe Vigil, Dennis Benton the key solution to this crisis lies with South Africa...