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Mozambique to host Zimbabwe summit

Nov 2, 2009 3:28 PM | By AFP

Mozambique will host a regional summit on Zimbabwe on Thursday in hopes of breaking a deadlock that threatens Harare's fragile unity government, the foreign ministry spokeswoman said.

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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe talking to the head of the SADC delegation and Mozambique's Foreign Affairs Minister Oldemiro Baloi at the ZANU-PF offices in Harare
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe talking to the head of the SADC delegation and Mozambique's Foreign Affairs Minister Oldemiro Baloi at the ZANU-PF offices in Harare
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The three-member security organ of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which brokered Zimbabwe's unity deal, will hold the summit in the Mozambican capital Maputo, Yunassy Muchanga told AFP.

"They have agreed to hold a meeting here on Thursday. But we don't know any more details yet," she said.

Mozambique currently heads SADC's security organ, which sent a delegation to Harare last week to mediate between veteran President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, the former opposition leader who joined the government in February.

Swaziland and Zambia are also members of the Troika, and Muchanga said other countries were unlikely to take part in the talks.

Tsvangirai suspended cooperation with Mugabe's party more than two weeks ago, threatening the fragile pact that had been hailed as an end to last year's deadly electoral violence.

Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo who currently heads SADC, was in Harare on Monday for talks with both leaders.

Tsvangirai's spokesman James Maridadi told AFP that the premier would attend the Maputo talks.

"Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will be attending the conference in Maputo on Thursday to discuss the powersharing agreement," he told AFP.

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Nov 2 2009 05:33:49 PM
mcritic
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What is going on here? The investigation revealed as follows:-

* That Mugabe does not recognize the January 2009 comunique of the SADC and would not negotiate any issues mentioned in teh communique.

* That Mugabe does not want to see even the issues dealt with in the GPA being implemented - such as the various Commisions to be set up.

It seems that the SADC representatives feel that issues are not addressed by the GNU - because Mugabe is jeopardizing progress.

Wht is the summit going to achieve? It is not at all clear - since one of the members is not exactly a paragon of democracy himself.

Not much hope from this quarter it seems.
Nov 2 2009 08:26:25 PM
Are whites Africans
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So, It seems Black SA people are happy. They dont care that they dont own most of their country. Why would Us be interested in southern Africa. The same reason why you are still here. The richness we have.the minerals .diamonds , platinum etc. Not to mention the Uranium for their nuclear power stations!!! Black people in SA are nothing but poodles!! Thats why they kill their fellow Africans. They forget that we helped them defeat apertheid and lost some of our people for that.
Nov 2 2009 09:25:15 PM
jsavo
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Are blacks Africans

"They forget that we helped them defeat apertheid"
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Who is we? Do I take it you are from the Zimbabwean propaganda ministry. Do you know how much your poodles in SA have contributed to ur failed country in terms of financial and food aid ? You do of course know that the EU have spent EU taxpayers money refurbishing a water treatment plant in Harare early this year, was it 100mil Euro ?
Your so called poodles are keeping your people alive both within and without your boundaries.
Dont look down on people who have taken in 3million of your country's refugees giving work and shelter!
Nov 2 2009 09:42:07 PM
mbongwam
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mcritic
That Mugabe does not recognize the January 2009 comunique of the SADC and would not negotiate any issues mentioned in teh communique
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I'm sure my hero has a reason why he can't recognize this SADC who was formed by mostly uneducated leaders. these leaders need blessing from elder to form this SADC and my president as elder wasn't given the opportunity to blessed the SADC.
Nov 2 2009 10:01:47 PM
VinceRSA
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Ironic to use the term "Summit" in the same sentence as the word Zimbabwe, which is at it's absolute 'NADIR'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Still, some good seafood and the beach will be a break from gutting the remnants of the zanu-pf treasury!
Nov 2 2009 10:05:12 PM
Bart Gee
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No summit in SA.... as SA hasv real KuK Ijuba....Apparently Mozambique has some serious Ijuba...

Bob is tired of Zimbo Juice... needs a change!
Nov 2 2009 10:07:09 PM
Mandla
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Are whites Africans – is definitely one of those green bombers – the ZANU PF trained thugs. What is encouraging is the desperation that sounds from his/her posting; it means things are not going ZANU PF way. When the Ndebele’s refused to vote ZANU PF they were massacred and called foreigners in their own land and we taunted and told to go back to KZN. When the urbanites decided to turn their backs on a corrupt ZANU PF government their dwellings were demolished in some forced removal. When ZANU PF lost the referendum to change the constitution their wrath as turned on to the commercial farmers. Last year when the rural population in Mashonaland for the first time voted against ZANU PF they were butchered mercilessly. Now that SADC states are turning the heat on these thugs they now start calling them poodles. When are these thugs ever going to grow up? ZANU PF is bunch of bitter enders who have no where to run anymore and they now want to take everybody down with them to hell. If sanity prevails over greed the Kimberly Process meeting taking place in Swakopmund, Namibia this week should suspend Zimbabwe’s blood diamonds and that could be the final nail in the coffin of ZANU PF.
Nov 2 2009 10:08:25 PM
Bart Gee
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Are blacks african and Mbongwam.... don't speak when your mouth is FULL of food!

If you care so much, what the hell are you doing south of the Limpopo??
Nov 2 2009 11:39:00 PM
mbongwam
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Bart Gee

your crap.
Nov 3 2009 05:03:14 AM
samurai14
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More talk, what needs to be done is remove the innocent civilians...leave doosh magape and his supporters in, and turn it into a parking lot, a good ICBM will put a smile on his face......lol...


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