Cape Town — South Africa's President Jacob Zuma says Zimbabwe's leaders have agreed on "a package of measures" which could bring about "substantial" progress in implementing the agreement setting up their unity government.
In a statement issued from his office in Pretoria, Zuma said he was "encouraged by the spirit of cooperation" shown by the rival leaders during his three-day visit to Harare which ended Thursday.
But he did not announce any details of the package.
He said negotiators for the Zimbabwean parties belonging to the unity government had been told by their leaders to wrap up outstanding issues in talks scheduled for March 25, 26 and 29, and to report back to him by March 31.
Zuma travelled to Zimbabwe with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) deeply frustrated at what they regard as the intransigence of President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF in talks, and at Mugabe's unilateral action in stripping MDC ministers of their powers.
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HEADLINE: "Mediator Zuma hails 'progress' in Zimbabwe talks"
You'll all understand my frustrations as you too recall past mediators hailng progress and patting themselves on the back for the wonderful advances made. I still see starvation, inept management, failure of "rule-of-law", cronyism and all the evils inherent in Mugabe's Zimbabwe still firmly in place. And no,I'm not a citizen of that country - I'm just very tired of the lies put forth by the news media - including this one about "a package of measures" which could bring about "substantial" progress in implementing the agreement setting up their unity government. In a years time we will again see no change and some news media will again report, as they have in the past, sustantial change. And the evils will just perpetuate but Zuma will again praise himself for the progress he has made. Please just stop this merry-go round - I wanna get off!
Call me doubting Thomas but I believe it when I touch it! Africans are notorious for violating their agreements and Mugabe is the lightning rod. Zuma is compromised. Mutambara is opportunistic and he sees nothing good coming out of the good working of the GNU. Tsvangirai is not resolute and can easily waver on his principles. Shame!
It is okay to doubt b/c I have heard this over and over this past year and nothing has been done other than lots of talk with no action and that is how it will go this time again...
I believe you all have it right this time. Full speed forward.God Bless Africa. U.S.A. Oweij Liebo.
we AFRICANS we need to stop acting the monkey that they made us to be...we all know who the enemy is and we know who pulls the strings of african problems : western world...nobody said anything to mobutu or houphouet boigny or eyadema or blaise compaore or hosni mubarak etc etc...as long as they made sure that western interest are not compromised...plain and simple...i am ashamed at so called "africans"that are serving as the rod used to beat us to death...simple...white man never forgave MUGABE struggle to free his people and to take a courageous stand against the true evil in this world...the west controls the media apparatus, they control the money in the world, bref they "own" this world...but one thing they cannot own is our mind and heart unless we allow them to...after half a century of so called independence and a circus of socio-political formulas imposed by their visions,we should at least try to open our eyes and look trough their game...everyone is satisfied with the little house...little car...embracing everything western,while they are sucking AFRICA DRY...what do u think will happen when those ressources are all sucked up!!! wich is an scientific eventuallity...these people will slaughtern us and keep a few of us as specimens in their zoos... so please spare us your outrage and your moods and let those that want to break away from this evil... thus giving us" resistance material" to say NO...NOT UNDER MY WATCH...leave MUGABE ALONE...
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