Archbishop Pius Ncube, the leader of Zimbabwe's 1 million Catholics, has called on Britain to depose Robert Mugabe.

Archbishop Pius Ncube, the leader of Zimbabwe's 1 million Catholics, has called on Britain to depose Robert Mugabe. The archbishop's plea, published in the Times of London, contained a reprise of much that has gone wrong with Zimbabwe: "People in our mission hospitals are dying of malnutrition. We had the best education in Africa and now our schools are closing. Most people are earning less than their bus fares. There's no water or power." And that is hardly all. Unemployment is at 80 percent. Inflation causes prices to double every week, and the government's attempts to fix prices have caused butchers, bakers, and gas-station operators to work at a loss, close up shop, or face arrest for defying Mugabe's edicts. Consider this, alongside the very real fear of torture and murder that has paralyzed the political opposition, and it is clear the stakes for speaking out in Zimbabwe, as Ncube has admirably done, are very high. "Is the world just going to let everything collapse in on us?" the archbishop asked. Sadly, that is probably just what the world is going to do.