Harare — President Mugabe yesterday met the visiting South African mediation team to the inter-party political talks amid revelations that more "outstanding issues" have arisen to the Global Political Agreement.
The team of former South African Cabinet ministers - Charles Nqakula, Mac Maharaj and President Jacob Zuma's international relations adviser, Lindiwe Zulu - which arrived in Harare on Sunday night met President Mugabe at Zimbabwe House where they briefed him on their terms of reference and how they intended to go about their business.
It is understood that the mission met the negotiators as a group after briefing President Mugabe.
Sources said an MDC negotiator insisted on meeting the delegation collectively after saying there was a danger that separate meetings could result in a distortion of the manner in which the inclusive Government was progressing.
However, it emerged that the issues on the talks agenda had grown from the eight presented in Mozambique when the Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security met about a fortnight ago and now included 21 separate items.
Sources said last night that the SA team was "not impressed" by the ballooning in agenda items and expressed "anxiety" that if new issues kept arising there would be no forward movement.
When the parties met in Maputo they agreed that the issues to be discussed were sanctions, pirate radio broadcasts, external interference, and the setting up of parallel government structures.
Other contentious issues include the appointments of Roy Bennett as a deputy minister, the proposed national economic council, a land audit and the status of the Attorney-General and Reserve Bank Governor.
However, these issues had since grown to include provincial governors, the media, review of ministerial allocations under the GPA, electoral vacancies, parallel government structures, security sector reform, constitutional commissions, national heroes, ambassadors, permanent secretaries and other issues.
A source close to the proceedings said the visiting team queried how the issues had grown and pointed out that at the current rate there would be "endless talks without resolution".
It is understood that the introduction of issues that were not agreed on at the Maputo Troika summit were masking the "real issues" stalling progress.
"One of the negotiators insisted that the talks be held with everyone present so that there would be no distortions behind closed doors.
"One of the first matters that arose in the subsequent meeting was that of Zanu-PF's insincerity in meeting MDC concerns to which Zanu-PF's negotiators said they had played their part.
"They said MDC-T had refused to call for the lifting of sanctions and had done nothing to lobby for anything to that end.
"Zanu-PF said nothing had also been done on the front of the illegal broadcast of hate messages into Zimbabwe from outside the country.
"The Zanu-PF negotiators pointed out that MDC-T had opposed any initiatives to stop Madagascar and Botswana in particular from playing host to relay stations for Studio Seven and Voice of America while at the same time supplying them with false data to discredit President Mugabe and his party.
"They said MDC-T's attempt to introduce the land issue as a two-pronged item on the agenda was designed to reverse the land reform programme."
According to the agenda items, MDC-T now wants land to be dealt with as a dual issue incorporating a land audit and tenure systems.
The sources said MDC-T introduced tenure systems as a means of reversing land reforms through "banking systems".
"Zanu-PF said MDC-T wants the introduction of title deeds for farms so that they become a bankable instrument through which banks can demand collateral and when new farmers fail to meet banking requirements the banks take over the land.
"They are aware that there is no way that new farmers can take out huge loans right now and thus need collateral.
"They want to make the farms the collateral and then seize the land from them. But what people have to understand is that farmers need State support, in this case the support of the inclusive Government.
"Besides, many countries have succeeded from the land tenure system obtaining in Zimbabwe in which people are given leases.
"In Mozambique it has worked and there is no reason why it should not work in Zimbabwe unless we are saying the new farmer should not be given a chance," the sources said.
On the issue of the setting up of parallel government structures, the sources said Zanu-PF was prepared to reveal the names of the people incorporated in "this subversion of the State".
The source said the negotiators had a list of the people involved.
Investigations by The Herald have shown that the Public Service Commission is worried by this infiltration of the bureaucracy and will soon move to act on it.
Independent sources have said some of the people believed to be in the parallel government in the Prime Minister's Office are:
- Martin Rupiya (international relations)
- Emmanuel Chimwanda (security)
- Andrew Chadwick (communication)
- Jacob Mafume (funding co-ordinator)
- Rosemary Ann-Zigomo (legal)
- Moses Chundu (economic cluster)
- Lazarus Muriritirwa (policy implementation)
- Abisha Nyaguwo (social cluster)
- Denis Murira (public affairs)
- Thandiwe Hlabangana (Deputy PM T Khupe's Office)
- Sabelo Ndlovu (Minister Gorden Moyo's Office)
The sources said parallel structures had also been set up in Bulawayo to represent the PM in Bulawayo.
Among the people believed to be in this office are Dumiso Mtshazi, Thamsanga Ncube, Thabang Nare, Eddie Cross and Tholani Zitha.
It could not be established at the time of writing if Zanu-PF's negotiators were going to present this list to the visiting SA delegation.
The SA team is expected to end its mission tomorrow.
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Pirate Radio Stations - are they owned and run by the MDC? If not who should campaign against them. Abaiwa ngaabude. Zanu Pf should campaign vigorously against these stations and they must do this in partnership with their partners in gvt. They must not think MDC will be able to do it alone. If this is what they think, makarasika madhara. The other think is Zanu Pf is using the Herald and ZBC to feed people of Zim with lies and hate language, and this is known by everyone. ZveMDC ndizvo zvarwadza manje. Ko kana mati inclusive gvt, ko madii kuita governance dzacho reflecting the all inclusivity that it intends to be. Dindingwe rinonaka richakweva rimwe, kana iro rokweviwa hanzi mavara angu azarevhu... Madhara edu, your days are numbered. Kana zvanetsa zveInclusive Gvt yenyu, hande kumaElections zvipere, chikumbiro changu chiri chekuti musiyane nestaera yenyu yekubiridzira. To free naFair election tione kana mukaibata even 30%
Theflyingchopper;
Keep on dreaming young man. Those before you who dreamt and never woke up did not achieve what they dreamt of. You are no exception, you will dream and dream and dream until you dream no more.
As we approached the March 29, 2008 elections, all idiotic fools including you were predicting that Zanu-pf would not secure more than 4% of the vote. These idiots also included Ibbo Mandaza, Lovemore Madhuku, John Makumbe and many others; all professors who claimed to know everything. Their stupid and biased analysis was wrong and your present prediction will again be proved wrong if we go to election today.
Do not forget that shelves are now full, God is smiling at us with the rains we are receiving, schools have opened, we are now using the weapon (multiple currencies) used by imperialists against us, hospitals are now at 60% capacity and Tsvangirai is refusing to implement the GPA in full. All these will militate against the sellout party if we go to election today.
What the stupid analysts thought (on March 29) would turn the people of Zimbabwe against Zanu-pf and President Mugabe did not as the people were fully aware that their suffering was being caused by those who campaigned for sanctions, those who churn out hate speech into Zimbabwe from Botswana and Madagascar and those who connived with the CIA and MI6 to train bandits in Botswana and to bomb our country because of the cholera which they had spread in the first place.
As you very well know, at the time that we went for elections, shops were virtually empty; newly resettled farmers had not harvested anything to talk about; hospitals were death chambers with no single and simplest drug that should be found in a tuck-shop, nurses and doctors were leaving en-mass for greener pastures; schools had long closed and this was exacerbated by the recruitment of teachers by the sellout party who sent them to South Africa for propaganda orientation courses; our roads resembled those bombed by the regime of Bush in Iraq; and add to this the lack of cash resulting from the sabotaging of our economy by the CIA and MI6 who used their currencies.
In actual fact every thing was to the disadvantage of Zanu-pf and President Mugabe but conversely to the advantage of sellouts that had brought about all the suffering that our people were experiencing.
Despite having all these advantages on his side sellout Tsvangi could not convince the people of Zimbabwe to vote for him on March 29, 2008. Had it not been for the CIA and MI6 who used money to buy votes from the gullible ones among us, the sellout fool would not have secured even 3%. Had it not been for sellout organizations like ZESN, which were being used by imperialists to buy votes and rig elections the sellout fool would not have secured even 3%.
If you remember well, these agents of imperialism coined the slogan "Pindai five-five". They did that and in the process showing the MDC-T symbol of an open surrender palm and they did this right at the polling stations.
Actually, imperialists through the CIA and MI6 deployed more than 5000 of their agents who were running up and down campaigning for the MDC-T but this did not work. It all came to nothing because our people were fully aware of what they wanted and so they voted Zanu-pf. Tsvangi was again convinced and humbled beyond any reasonable doubt that he did not have a chance in hell to beat President Mugabe when he, three days before polling, withdrew from the run-off elections.
At that time people who had voted for the western puppet on March 29 had clearly seen that they were dealing with a stooge and puppet of McGee and so they abandoned him totally to allow President to secure 85% of the votes.
Takunya can you really state that the people of Zimbabwe rejected Morgan Tsvangirai and opted to give Robert Mugabe an "85%" vote, and say it with a straight face? You are totally delusional. Since when has Zimbabwe become a one party state where the only incumbent stands for elections? If that was your case, then why was there a need for "a unity government" with someone (Mr Tsvangirai) that you say the people of Zimbabwe "abandoned?" Whatever percentage of vote Mugabe received during that so called election means diddly squat. Get your head examined.
The_Flying_Chopper;
When MDC-T, with the assistance of the CIA and MI6, established these pirate radio stations nobody assisted them. It is, therefore, them and them alone who should campaign for the closure of these barbaric Stations that are causing hatred in our country and are polarizing our nation. Saka kana usingazivi izvozvo (If you do not know that) then you need to go to hell; your friend (Zungairwa, the Satanic Satan walking on two feet) is waiting for you there. If that is not done the GPA can collapse we on this side to not mind.
From the time I started reading the Herald after Independence in 1980 I have never come across propaganda or hate speech by the People's Newspaper. The Herald says it like it is. Do you in your dreams expect the Herald to support Tsvangi when he campaigns for sanctions against the people of Zimbabwe knowing as we do the devastation that these sanctions are causing in our country? Do you, at any one time, expect the Herald to support Tsvangi for teaming up with the Rhodies to try and reverse not only the land reform programme but all the gains of the liberation? Tsvangirais clapping and smiling as he received those cheques from white farmers in Mash West is testimony to his selling out.
Do you think the people of Zimbabwe, who suffered at the hands of Tsvangi when he sold out to the Rhodesia Special Branch, have forgotten what they went through? If someone is not liked in his own home area what do you expect the Herald to do to prop him up? The people who suffered at the hands of Tsvangi between 1975 and 1980 were beginning to heal but their wounds have been opened by the fool's stupid judgment of teaming up with those who maimed them and killed their relatives.
Mabasa uri mabasa chaiwo. YOU are the worst fool of fools i ever heard. You do not even know what you are talking about. If you loose your job from herald you wont get any other job. Learn from Super Mandiwanzira uchatakura zanu nayo kwese kwaunenge uri and you will be shame to the world. Zanu chiwororo will see you in the street. Where Darlinton chakuti the former deputy Minister of information? You will follow him.
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