We don't have a great deal of leverage in Zimbabwe, and we don't really have a major strategic interest in Zimbabwe.

NPR: Zimbabwe Government Goes After Media

But great heroics late on from Andy Blignaut and Heath Streak were required to push Zimbabwe past 300 after only Andy Flower impressed from the top-order with 71.

BBC: Zimbabwe beat plucky Dutch

Meanwhile, Zimbabwe's worst humanitarian and economic crisis since its independence from Great Britain in 1980 rages on, with a cholera epidemic that has claimed nearly 2, 000 lives since August.

CNN: Zimbabwe: Rights activist is 'threat to society'