Mbeki will stopover in Harare on his way to the Commonwealth summit in Uganda.
Presidential spokesman Mukoni Ratshitanga told AFP that Mbeki will stopover for “consultation with the political leadership in Zimbabwe, both (President Robert Mugbe’s) Zanu-PF and the two factions of the MDC.”
The spokesman was not clear who exactly of the leadership of each party Mbeki would be meeting.
The consultations were “in relation to the mandate that he wa given by SADC to facilitate dialogue between political leadership.”
Mbeki, who has refused to publicly criticise Mugabe for the crisis that Zimbabwe finds itself in, was tassked by fellow leaders in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in March with mediating an end to the stand-off between the government and opposition in Harare.Â
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