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Original Post Date: 2009-05-19 Time: 10:00:04 Posted By: Jan
By Stanley Gama
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change has appealed to the Southern African Development Community to intervene to break a deadlock that is still stalling the three-month-old unity government.
The smaller MDC faction led by Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara is expected to follow suit.
This follows yet another failure by Tsvangirai and Mutambara to persuade President Robert Mugabe to pass several major reforms which the MDC leaders say he agreed to when he signed on to a unity government in September.
The MDC resolved on Sunday to appeal to SADC and the African Union to intervene. Both organisations are guarantors of the new government. MDC sources said the request had been formally conveyed to SADC and the AU.
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The request is likely to be dealt with by former president Thabo Mbeki, SADC’s official mediator in Zimbabwe. However, the MDC hopes President Jacob Zuma will get involved as he has become the chairman of SADC since his inauguration as South African president.
As ANC president, Zuma was sharply critical of Mugabe, and the MDC hopes Zuma will be tougher on him than his predecessors, Kgalema Motlanthe and Mbeki.
The unity government has made some economic reforms since its establishment nearly 100 days ago, but it has barely got off the ground because of fundamental disagreements between Mugabe’s Zanu-PF and the two MDC factions.
The MDC says Mugabe has failed to implement 11 major reforms agreed to by all three parties when they signed the Global Political Agreement, which established the framework for the unity government in September. This has stalled the government.
Tsvangirai told a rally at the weekend that, after failing to agree with Mugabe, his party had been left with no option but to appeal to SADC to intervene.
Finance Minister Tendai Biti, the MDC’s secretary-general, explained: “As the MDC, we feel that there has been too much dragging of feet in solving the outstanding issues… Hence the AU and SADC should move in and try to solve the outstanding issues.”
Mugabe, Tsvangirai and Mutambara appeared to have resolved most of the issues last week and were expected to announce this. But Mugabe is said to have requested a delay so that he could meet the hardliners in his party to seek their approval to implement what he had agreed to.
This has reinforced MDC suspicions that Mugabe is either being manipulated by hardliners in Zanu-PF who want to derail the inclusive government so that they can be in sole charge of the country, or that Mugabe is in cahoots with them while pretending to honour the unity-government agreement.
Tsvangirai lambasted the hardliners last week.
Mugabe is expected to discuss the issue at a Zanu-PF politburo meeting tomorrow. – Independent Foreign Service