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Zuma appoints new Zimbabwe team

Nov 26, 2009 12:12 AM | By Sapa-AFP

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma appointed a new team to monitor Zimbabwe’s troubled unity government accord, ending former president Thabo Mbeki’s mediation role, his office said.


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“As part of the evaluation process, the facilitation team will be visiting Zimbabwe at a date to be announced,” presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya said.

“Former president Thabo Mbeki’s role was in the context of him being the head of state,” Magwenya told AFP.

Mbeki, who stood down as president in September 2008, led a team of mediators who brokered the power-sharing deal signed by President Robert Mugabe and his long-term rival Morgan Tsvangirai who became prime minister.

The unity government formed in February this year has been fraught with power struggles, which saw Tsvangirai boycott it for three weeks in October.

The stand-off was later resolved by regional leaders at a special summit in Mozambique.

“The facilitation team will soon engage with the parties as emissaries of the president, and report back to him,” said the statement.

The team consists of former cabinet ministers Charles Nqakula, Mac Maharaj and Zuma’s international relations adviser Lindiwe Zulu.

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Nov 26 2009 02:40:57 AM
jsavo
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.. and the team will have a secretariat, hardware, software, fine offices, a good sized budget, personnel including PR, HR, Finance dept, rights (unionised of course), health & safety dept, equality requirement and all the rest bla bla bla to produce a report or reports that look good, great graphics, but mean sweet fanny adams!
Nov 26 2009 04:49:15 AM
Friend Of Reason
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jsavo what did your apartheid government do for South Africa for to yell at the ANC.

SA media tell us what good did the apartheid system you love so much do for South Africa
Nov 26 2009 04:55:42 AM
Friend Of Reason
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My ANC
My Vision
My Future

Viva
Nov 26 2009 05:13:12 AM
mcritic
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Friend of reason I am not going o say much more than to ask that we all be psotive and hope for the best.

I do not necessarily agree that the team has any merit. Lindiwe Zulu is the only positie - the oher two can really be claassified as failed and somewhat questionable politicians,

But then it removes a President that was strongly aloigned with Mugabe and put in place a team consisting of awoed communits. Remember - Mugabe claims he is a communist.

Results would be welcomed and lets see whether there are in fact any.
Nov 26 2009 05:41:10 AM
samurai14
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For starters the ANC, which was a terrorist group, was bankrupt, then all of a sudden our taxes land up in their pockets....the roads are crap, everything has done to hell....Apartheid, lets see, my roads were perfect, my school was a school, not the joke they are now under the useless ANC.....I did not have to carry weapons to cut your criminal type down......anyone who honestly believes that SA is a better place now is walking with eyes closed, NOTHING has improved.......Zuma is weak, all he does is talk....your gov is unbelievably corrupt.......the list goes on.....
Nov 26 2009 06:07:35 AM
Africa_need_No_link_to_europe
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President zuma who has shown more than once that he doesn't understand that the strategic importance of zimbabwe when it comes to the freedom of the brown "black" people has once again moved in a direction that will allow him to help hand over Zimbabwe to the UK and the USA.

President Mbeki and his team were in our opinion the best people to help Zimbabwe in fighting solution when face with p.i.n.k "white" supremacists countries that have already shown more than once the criminal colors in Africa.

President zuma is not serving the best interest of the African people, First he went to free 2 p.i.n.k "white" supremacists coup plotters from equatorial guinea and now he want to hand over Zimbabwe to the UK and USA countries he views as civilized countries.

Mr. President should not be voted for a second term in office or he will appoint Helen zille as commander in chief of our army, which will be the beginning of the end of our freedom.
Nov 26 2009 06:16:16 AM
Africa_need_No_link_to_europe
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When a bunch of criminal illegal s.e.t.t.l.e.r.s that were occupying other people country call an organization that was fighting to free it people from the occupation and genocide the s.e.t.t.l.e.r.s were running a terrorist organization then we know the criminal s.e.t.t.l.e.r.s still want to hurt us.

We say we can still re-consider our position and ask that Africa goes back to itself with no S.e.t.t.l.e.r. That can still be achieved and will certainly be achieved when the capacity to do so has been put together.
Nov 26 2009 06:22:27 AM
Africa_need_No_link_to_europe
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President zuma who has shown more than once that he doesn't understand the strategic importance of Zimbabwe when it comes to the freedom of the brown "black" people has once again moved in a direction that will allow him to help hand over Zimbabwe to the UK and the USA.

President Mbeki and his team were in our opinion the best people to help Zimbabwe in finding solutions when faced with p.i.n.k "white" supremacist’s countries that have already shown more than once their criminal agenda in Africa.

President zuma is not serving the best interest of the African people, First he went to free 2 p.i.n.k "white" supremacists coup plotters from equatorial guinea and now he want to hand over Zimbabwe to the UK and USA countries he views as civilized countries.

Mr. President should not be voted for a second term in office or he will appoint Helen zille as commander in chief of our army, which will be the beginning of the end of our freedom.
Nov 26 2009 06:27:58 AM
president
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samurai14 if you are not happy in this country maybe you should look for your ancestors and go lie next to them coz you are truelly a racist to think that apartheid was good for this country
Nov 26 2009 06:47:38 AM
Chup
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Mac and Charles are good choice.They have African pride and read a lot, make sense everytime when they speak. The good thing is that Mac is a South African, not Indian.


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