Zimbabwe's power-sharing talks have adjourned while negotiators consult with their party leaders, but will resume by the end of the week, South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki said in Pretoria on Tuesday.
He was speaking in the wake of reports saying the talks had deadlocked.
Addressing a news conference with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Mbeki said the Zimbabwean negotiators – who are meeting at a secret venue in South Africa – “want to go back to Harare to… consult with their principals.”
A transcript of Mbeki’s remarks was released by South Africa’s foreign ministry. Mubarak was in South Africa on a state visit.
A media blackout has been imposed on the talks, but party sources have suggested to journalists that President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party has offered the Movement for Democratic Change’s leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, the post of third vice-president, alongside the existing Zanu-PF vice-presidents, Joyce Mujuru and Joseph Msika. The MDC reportedly wants Tsvangirai to assume the post of prime minister with considerable executive power.
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Whatever comes of talks will not deter the western powers from further annihilating the Zimbabwean populace up till Zimbabweans agree to a pre 2000 status quo with respect to property rights that benefits whites. The aggrieved are the former colonisers who will do anything against the Zim population to prove that by taking land, indigenizing the economy and looking east for much complimentary business treaties is against their world order and deserve some punishment. Tsvangirai, once made VP or PM can easily be discarded by the western oppressors and Zim will continue to reel on sanctions. MDC was simply high jacked along the way to effect the western liked illegal regime change, now NGOs will have a better part to play to remove liberation movements ideals for Africa. A luta continua!
TAURA ZVAKO MWANA WE VU. l hope all the young buck of Gt Zim join you. The fight is only beginning .....
A luta continua?? In which world are living? Please, don't ridicule Africans with empty slogans! Zimbabweans with empty stomachs and terrorised by bloodthirsty Mugabe will not taste your bitter pill anymore.
Annihilating Zimbabweans? Should you not ask why 5 million of your countrymen have sought refuge in SA? Should you not ask why others in hundreds are still now queuing up in Botswana after the run off elections to seek protection there? Was the West necklacing Zimbabwean refugees and putting them on fire in Jo'burg? Why can't you wake up when toilet paper has more value than Mugabe's 10 billion Dollar note?
What have external elements to do when Mugabe's cronies having unjustly received large tracks of agricultural land that they just leave lying as wasteland?
Mugabe's days are numbered! You like it or not, he will be dragged to court to answer the genocide in Matabeleland and recently the killings, maiming and rape of opponents. Will you react only when you begin to witness the rape of your wife, daughter or sister by Mugabe's thugs?
God-annoited Mugabe will not transfer power peacefully. Tsvangirai is in the talks under duress. Mbeki will soon realise he is also a victim of Mugabe's cunningness!! Alas! By then, Zuma will be preparing to take over the helm in SA. He will not tolerate a bloodthirsty tyrant in a neighbouring country sending its citizens running to SA for protection and endangering SA's own socio-economic development!
Already, resources in SA, Botswana and Zambia are being stretched to their utmost to cater for basic needs of Zimbabweans. Events in Zimbabwe are no more considered "internal" by citizens in these countries.
You just have to sit and wait should the tyrant refuce to go. Zimbabwe will be invaded by the neighbouring countries to liberate you from a tyrant destabilizing Southern Africa. Remember Tanzania liberating Uganda from the grips of another tyrant.
Your empty slogans will lead you to disaster. You better wake up and join efforts to facilitate the promotion of freedom, justice and a democratically elected government.
Onesoulzim, you a nothing but a warmongerer. People like you making up lies like this is what causes the troubles in Zim in the first place. Where do you get your information that the west want to take Zim back to a pre 2000 status in regards to property rights that affect whites? Its simply not true. The majority of the west is happy that the land is now in the hands of zimbabweans apart from the land in the hands of ministers who cant farm. You have clearly been listening to the lies and propaganda of Mugabe for too long!
Indie, come on now - we all know that YOU are the real liar here. You have been fabricating so much lies on this site and you are not even a Zimbabwean. What Onesoulzim has said is what i have told you and your cronies ages ago but you just cant accept it. Why don't you just creep back under that rock you came from......where ever that is because Zimbabwean's don't need your negative input!
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