Zimbabwe: Mbeki Denies Trip to Harare

4 September 2008
allAfrica.com

The office of South African President Thabo Mbeki denied media reports that he was travelling to Harare on Thursday to try to break a deadlock in power-sharing talks between Zimbabwe's parties.

"The presidency wishes to place it on record that President Mbeki is not travelling to Harare today," Mbeki's office said in a statement.

The statement went on to attack the media over the report, saying "these 'informed sources' [quoted by reporters] continually get it wrong, including on matters as basic as the President's itinerary."

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