Members of Civil Society Organisations on Thursday raised doubts about the one month timeframe given to the three principals to the Global Political Agreement, to implement 24 out of the 27 issues.

South African President Jacob Zuma, who is the SADC facilitator on Zimbabwe, presented his report to the summit on Monday and his recommendations were endorsed and accepted by the full summit.

SW Radio Africa has been told that as part of implementing the 24 agreed items, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa is expected to expedite legislation for the Human Rights Commission and to immediately begin steps to establish the Anti-Corruption Commission. He is also expected to deal immediately with the completion of amendments to the Electoral Act.

Tapiwa Mashakada, the new Minister of Economic Planning, will be tasked with establishing within a month the National Economic Council, while the Lands Minister is expected to finalise establishment of a Lands Audit Commission.

Webster Shamu, Minister of Information and Publicity, is to ensure the appointment of two new and neutral, boards for the Broadcasting Authority and the Mass Media Trust - again, within a month.

The summit noted three issues were still to be resolved mainly between Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. These were the appointment of Roy Bennett as Deputy Minister of Agriculture, plus the unilateral appointments of Gideon Gono and Johannes Tomana as Reserve Bank Governor and Attorney-General. SADC reportedly also stated that these three issues must be resolved within a month.

But McDonald Lewanika, co-ordinator of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, cast serious doubt on SADC's assertion that the issues can be dealt with in one month. Lewanika's comments came after MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai held two separate meetings on Thursday with foreign diplomats and members of the Civil Society Organisations to brief them on the outcome of the Troika meeting.

Lewanika said; 'From the knowledge that we have, based on history and practices of this government, it seems almost entirely impossible to implement the remaining issues within 30 days. But we will wait to see what happens and hope this time around they will honour the commitments made to SADC.'

He added; 'But there is nothing for us to be happy about as we all know SADC is in the business of making resolutions with very little implementation taking place, where Zimbabwe is concerned.'

SADC has on many occasions shown an unwillingness to rein in Mugabe when ever he fails to comply with their resolutions, leading many analysts to believe the regional body takes sides with the ZANU PF leader.

Although the principals, Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, have agreed to implement the remaining issues in the GPA, ZANU PF party's deep-seated desire to have the targeted sanctions removed first will no doubt delay implementation once again.

Dewa Mavhinga, a civil society activist said;'Sanctions were imposed by Western countries and not the MDC. Issues contained in the GPA are all home grown that have nothing to do with sanctions. Implement the GPA and those who imposed them will feel oblidged to repeal them.'