SA set to end Zimbabwe deadlock

  1. Posted on Friday 23 January 2009 - 06:45
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    Sam Banda Junior, AfricaNews editor in Blantyre, Malawi Photo: Vusumuzi Sifile. When power-sharing was brokered in 2008
    South Africa will for the second time host a regional summit for Southern African Development (SADC) which is expected to solve the power sharing deal deadlock in Zimbabwe. The meeting takes place next Monday a few days after talks in Zimbabwe's capital Harare between Mugabe and his rival failed.
    Zimbabwe_signing_Vusumuzi Sifile
    The two – Mugabe and Tsvangirai – for several hours in their last crucial meeting failed to agree on the distribution of key cabinet positions with MDC targeting finance and local government ministries among others.

    South Africa also hosted the summit last year where it said it was going to tighten its belt on President Mugabe and the MDC leader to agree on the deal and form a government of national unity. However, nothing fruitful came out of the meeting on the deal which was brokered in September 2008 by former South African president Thabo Mbeki.

    According to South Africa’s foreign ministry, the summit will attract heads of state and government from SADC countries. Some of the SADC countries are Angola, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana, Mozambique, Seychelles, Lesotho, Namibia and Madagascar.

    The statement said MDC has also been invited to the meeting.

    Zimbabwe is in an economic crisis which has seen its inflation increase forcing food prices and other items to shoot up. Many people have fled the country in search for jobs and better life in neighbouring countries.

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