Hon Chairperson, the nature of support from South Africa must be seen in the context of the SADC itself. The SADC has requested all member states to help, first of all, with the issue of the observer teams. That we have contributed. Secondly, as part of the facilitation team, South Africa was requested by the SADC for the last five years to play a particular role in helping to mediate a process. Mediation by its very nature is always a difficult exercise, but we have seen the establishment of the Global Political Agreement in that process. We have seen a working through of difficult matters and eventually we have seen the process towards the election.
Even in the last couple of months, we saw extensive resources being spent by the SADC not only in support of free elections in Zimbabwe, but also to make sure that there is less violence. We saw that such measures can, in fact, lead to nonviolent elections. I think we must all commend the people of Zimbabwe for being able to go into this election, as difficult as it was, and we have seen no violence. [Applause.]