… means (if I recall correctly) "too little too late" in Afrikaans.

You know things are looking bad for President Mugabe when Archbishop Tutu calls for him to step down:

The Nobel Prize winner told Dutch television that Mr Mugabe should be removed by force if he refuses to go.

Archbishop Tutu said Mr Mugabe had ruined "a wonderful country", turning a "bread-basket" into a "basket case" … I think now that the world must say: ‘You have been responsible, with your cohorts… for gross violations, and you are going to face indictment in The Hague unless you step down.’"

Or maybe not.

A senior Dutch diplomat who previously did high-level jobs in Africa told me the other day how he had been present at an African Summit.

Mugabe had turned up unconscionably late. Yet all the assembled leaders had waited for him and then gone down on their knees to greet him – he was an Elder Statesman. "I’ll never forget that."

In Africa it seems that it does not matter how many of your own people you cause to die.

The main thing is to keep doing it for long enough, well into your old age, and you’ll be revered.

At least by other African leaders.