Mbeki will visit Harare to revive power-sharing talks: minister
Yahoo News
Fri Sep 5, 10:39 AM ET
HARARE (AFP) - South African President Thabo Mbeki is expected in
Harare next week to help revive stalled power-sharing talks between
Zimbabwe's ruling party and the opposition MDC, a minister said Friday.
"President Mbeki is expected here next week for the resumption of the
ongoing negotiations facilitated by SADC (Southern African Development
Community)," deputy information minister Bright Matonga told AFP.
He did not give any further details or a precise date.
Mbeki's spokesman, Mukoni Rat****anga, told AFP that he was unware of
the visit.
Earlier Friday, Zimbabwe's main opposition party appealed for help from
the regional bloc SADC to re-start the talks as President Robert Mugabe
threatened to form a new cabinet.
Talks between Mugabe and Tsvangirai, whose MDC holds a parliamentary
majority, were deadlocked in mid-August over Mugabe's desire to retain
control of the country's security forces, according to the opposition.
Last ditch attempts to revive the negotiations by Mbeki, who is
mediating in the crisis on behalf of SADC, failed last week.
Tsvangirai rejected a power-sharing deal that would have seen security
ministries re****ting to Mugabe and economic and social ministries to
himself, the MDC leader told South African radio on Wednesday.
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