Tendai Biti, the secretary general of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), announced the decision this morning at a news conference in South Africa as the talks, taking place in Swaziland, were scheduled to begin.
The MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has signed a power-sharing deal with the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, but the two are deadlocked over which party gets control of the country’s 31 ministries.
Biti, the MDC’s chief negotiator in the power-sharing agreement, said Tsvangirai had to fight for travel documents to go to Swaziland.
He said the opposition leader’s difficulty in obtaining the documents made it clear that Mugabe, who arrived at the summit yesterday, was not ready to share power.
thezimbabwean