On Thursday Zimbabwe's political stand-off will be tabled before a SADC Troika summit in Maputo, Mozambique.

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his delegation, that includes negotiators to the inter-party talks, left Harare Wednesday morning, flying to Maputo via Johannesburg. Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara and his negotiators also left Harare for Maputo on Wednesday.

Robert Mugabe is expected to fly direct to Maputo either late Wednesday evening or early Thursday morning.

After intense and wide ranging consultations around the region there are reports suggesting the Troika summit will try to force the three party principals to comply to comply with the spirit and the intent of the Global Political Agreement. Whether SADC will indeed try to make Mugabe stick to his side of the bargain, remains to be seen

A communiqué issued over the weekend, after a SADC Troika ministerial team completed its two day fact finding mission in Harare, recommended that the parties should also re-engage in dialogue in order to find a lasting solution to the outstanding issues towards the full implementation of the GPA. The latest crisis was triggered by the MDC's boycott of cabinet and council of ministers meetings three weeks ago.

Speaking ahead of the summit Tendai Biti, Secretary-General of the MDC-T, said they were hopeful SADC will do the right thing by ensuring that the country's political parties comply fully with the provisions of the SADC Communiqué of 27 January 2009 and the GPA.

In an interview in the Prime Minister's weekly Newsletter Biti said they cannot spend nine months still trying to deal with the same issues, such as the appointment of the Attorney-General and the Governor of the Reserve Bank, appointment of ambassadors and the distribution of provincial governors.

'We are encouraged that the SADC team listened to the issues we were making. What is essential is to be able to stand up to the truth and in this case the truth is not a fantastic construction. It is just directing that parties comply with the things they agreed to,' Biti said.

The SADC summit communiqué of January specifically mentioned that the appointments of the Reserve Bank Governor and the Attorney General would be dealt with by the inclusive government after its formation.

A political analyst told us it was worth noting that all three parties are heading to Maputo having agreed in meetings with the Troika team to attend to all outstanding issues.

The impasse between Tsvangirai and Mugabe has seen a new surge in violent attacks and abductions against MDC supporters and top officials from the civil society organizations.

In the latest case, Gertrude Hambira, the Secretary-General of the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe, narrowly avoided abduction by suspected state security agents Tuesday night. It's believed Hambira was not been harmed in the attack.

Human rights defenders have called on the SADC leaders to exert pressure on Mugabe and his secret police and militia, to cease their harassment of officials from civic society organizations.