Zuma to facilitate Zim round table talk sessions
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Published: July 26, 2010
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South African President Jacob Zuma is expected to return to Zimbabwe some time soon to make a final push to resolve the outstanding political issues bedeviling the Harare inclusive government.
Zuma is also expected to return to Harare to finalise the remaining issues which are part of the global political agreement which led to the formation of the coalition government, ahead of a crucial Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Windhoek, Namibia, next month.
SADC will be meeting to discuss issues affecting the region. Critical issues which have been on the agenda for a while include the Lesotho, Madagascar and Zimbabwe situations.
Since regional leaders met in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), last year, the SADC troika of the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security (OPDS) has been tackling issues.
The troika is currently chaired by Mozambique’s president, Armando Guebuza, and includes Swaziland’s King Mswati and Zambia’s president, Rupiah Banda.
The SADC troika also met in Maseru in February to deal with the Lesotho situation. It has held several meetings on Madagascar.
In Maputo, the troika managed to prevent the crumbling of the Harare coalition government, but tasked Zuma to intensify his efforts to break the political stalemate in Zimbabwe.
However, Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara, have remained deadlocked on the talks. With the help of the troika, Zuma has been relentlessly pushing parties in Zimbabwe to reach a deal, and now he seems within close range of a final agreement.
Under Zuma’s facilitation, Zimbabwean parties resumed talks in December last year but reached an impasse in April, when the talks ended at the level of party negotiators.
Zimbabwe lost its plot when the national athem changed from Ishe Komborera Africa, to this blood related one which does not attempt to mention God. Zimbabwe was once blessed. Its time we rethink our values as a nation and embrace Jesus as the author and finisher of our faith. This works for me, and I know it will work for Zimbabwe. God Bless you all.
All these talks are just window dresser; we all know nothing is coming out them. Mugabe is quite happy with the status quo. He has successfully managed to restrict the MDC to junior status in the coalition government, despite having lost the parliamentary and presidential elections. Coalition governments are the norm in some parts of the world, but those who manage to gunner majority votes always assume senior status in such set-ups. What we're witnessing here is plain debauchery, and day light robbery by ZANU. It's a matter of follw our leader or else.