Johannesburg — ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe and his political rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will today attend a regional summit in Maputo, Mozambique, in a bid to thrash out disputes undermining the Harare inclusive government.
The Southern African Development Community (Sadc) troika summit in Maputo will show if regional leaders are prepared to take a firmer stance on Zimbabwe. In the past Sadc leaders have skirted the issue and deferred it to the troika.
In the run-up to the Maputo summit, Mugabe and Tsvangirai met Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila, who is Sadc's chairman.
Mugabe, who was at a regional football tournament on Sunday, sent Vice-President Joyce Mujuru to meet Kabila at the airport. He kept Kabila waiting at a local hotel from Sunday until Monday.
Sources said Mugabe and Kabila's meeting was "cold" by previous standards. Mugabe has openly suggested the Sadc summit and other related meetings were unnecessary because Zimbabwe's issues would be resolved internally.
"President Kabila, as Sadc chairman, will listen to all sides in the inclusive government, the marks of progress we have made and the handicaps we have encountered," Mugabe said. "He will, however, know that we are grown-ups and intelligent people who know that we went into the agreement knowing that there will be handicaps to be met and we need to sit down and discuss the problems."
After meeting Mugabe earlier on Monday, Kabila met Tsvangirai at a local hotel in the evening.
Tsvangirai consolidated representations to Kabila, which he made recently in Kinshasa. He disengaged his faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) from government over a series of disputes on the Global Political Agreement. Kabila also met Arthur Mutambara, leader of the other MDC faction.
Meanwhile, senior MDC official Pascal Gwenzere who disappeared recently, resurfaced in remand prison facing charges of stealing guns at a Harare army barracks.
Gwenzere, who was abducted by unidentified men, secretly appeared in court on Saturday on charges of theft of firearms.
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Frankly, there are too many meetings and very little ego crushing.
Somehow, it doesn't occur to this Tsvangirai that a lot of the people's resources is wasted on satisfying his ego and shenanigans.
To what extent does Tsvangirai believe that he has at heart the interests of Zimbabwe and the people of Zimbabwe - the same people who - without a protest - his handlers, the whites, are starving to death with economic sanctions?
Does Tsvangirai have a say in what his handlers want with him? Can he order them to stop inflicting hardships on the people and stop starving the people of Zimbabwe? Can he isist that he can pursue his goals of assuaging his ego peacefully - withouit foreign interference? [Maybe not: Tsvangirai is a coward and a bully - who would is afraid of the white man and would rather harass the natives ...]
And in his wisdom, nay, magnanimity, and out of concern for the well-being of the people of maZimbabwe - who are besieged by Tsvangirai's foreign evil colonialists and murderous saboteurs - Cde Mugabe accommodates him ....
But for how long?
chokora did you realize these valuable resources and time would not be needed if Mugabe and the Zanu-PF would abide by the original agreement. of course be a Mugabe/Zanu-Pf loyalist I would expect nothing less from you than to place the blame on Tsvangirai so that you do not have to admit the faults/ guilt of Mugabe/ Zanu-Pf and people like you.
you talk about Tsvangirai not having the peoples best interest well HELLO look at Mugabe he kills people and lives like a king while his people suffer and die all around him so go cry you lies to one of your Zanu-pf buddies because they are the only ones who believe what you say.
Somehow, it doesn't occur to this Tsvangirai that a lot of the people's valuable time and resources are wasted on satisfying his ego and his master's cursed shenanigans.
To what extent does Tsvangirai believe that he has at heart the interests of Zimbabwe and the people of Zimbabwe - the same people who - without a protest - his handlers, the whites, are starving to death with economic sanctions?
Does Tsvangirai have a say in what his handlers want with him? Can he order them to stop inflicting hardships on the people and stop starving the people of Zimbabwe? Can he isist that he can pursue his goals of assuaging his ego peacefully - withouit foreign interference? [Maybe not: Tsvangirai is a coward and a bully - who would is afraid of the white man and would rather harass the natives ...]
And in his wisdom, nay, magnanimity, and out of concern for the well-being of the people of maZimbabwe - who are besieged by Tsvangirai's foreign evil colonialists and murderous saboteurs - Cde Mugabe and the long-suffering patriots of the Chimurenga accommodate him ....
But for how long?