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Original Post Date: 2008-12-14 Time: 05:00:07 Posted By: Jan
By Godfrey Marawanyika and Eleanor Momberg
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is being pressured by South Africa to swear in his rival for power, Morgan Tsvangirai, as prime minister.
Mugabe threatened to call new elections on Saturday because of the drawn-out power-sharing disputes.
A draft constitutional amendment paving the way for a unity government was published in Zimbabwe’s Government Gazette on Saturday.
President Kgalema Motlanthe welcomed the draft amendment, which creates the positions of prime minister and deputy prime minister, and said he expected the nominees to be sworn in “with immediate effect”.
Motlanthe said the gazetting of the constitutional amendment was a “major step towards the formation of an inclusive government in Zimbabwe”.
The amendment creates the position of prime minister, earmarked for the leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Tsvangirai.
But the rival parties have not agreed on crucial issues and this has long delayed, and could derail, the formation of an inclusive government.
“In the event that the collaboration that we envisage is not forthcoming, then that will necessitate fresh harmonised elections,” Patrick Chinamasa, Zimbabwe’s justice minister, told the state-run Herald newspaper.
The MDC won control of Parliament for the first time in the March elections but does not have enough seats to approve the amendment on its own.
Negotiators for Mugabe and Tsvangirai have agreed to a draft of a unity government text, but Nelson Chamisa, the MDC spokesperson, warned that crucial issues remained unresolved.
His ministers said the disease had been introduced by the UK as part of a “genocidal onslaught”.
Mugabe has long sought to blame the suffering of his country’s people on the former colonial power. But his cholera claim is his most bizarre to date.
Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, Mugabe’s information minister, said: “The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe is a serious biological, chemical warfare; a genocidal onslaught on the people of Zimbabwe by the British. It’s a genocide of our people.
“Cholera is a calculated, racist attack on Zimbabwe by the unrepentant former colonial power, which has enlisted support from its American and Western allies so that they can invade the country.”
With demands rising for Mugabe to face prosecution in the United Nations International Court of Justice, in The Hague, for human rights abuses, Ndlovu called for the British prime minister to be brought to justice.
“Gordon Brown must be taken to the UN Security Council for being a threat to world peace and planting cholera and anthrax to invade Zimbabwe, our peaceful Zimbabwe,” he said.
His comments came after Harare claimed that Mugabe had been joking when he said that there was “no cholera” in Zimbabwe.
Meanwhile, the South African government has yet to decide on how much and what kind of aid is to be sent to Zimbabwe.
The aid package “is still being finalised”, Themba Maseko, a government spokesperson, said.
This week, Frank Chikane, the director-general of the presidency, led a delegation to Zimbabwe to determine the scale of the aid required.
The South Africans met aid workers to determine how to ensure that aid reached those most in need.
A senior South African government official said last week that all aid would be distributed by non-government organisations to ensure that it did not end up in the hands of Zimbabwean politicians.