Botswana doesn’t support SADC on Zimbabwe ministries

The co-management of the ministry by Zanu PF and the main opposition
Movement for Democratic Change is "unrealistic, impracticable and
unworkable," Skelemani told lawmakers in the capital, Gaborone, late
yesterday, in a briefing on last week’s SADC summit meeting in
Johannesburg to solve Zimbabwe’s political crisis. The 15-nation SADC
decided at the summit that the Home Affairs Ministry should be jointly
overseen by two ministers nominated by President Robert Mugabe and
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. "It is regrettable that Zanu PF
continues to act as if it is the senior partner in the negotiations
wielding the power of veto on the implementation of the agreement,"
Skelemani said. "This does not reflect a genuine and credible
commitment to equitable power sharing.” If the power- sharing
agreement cannot be implemented soon, the international community must
demand a re-run of the presidential election in Zimbabwe under
international supervision, he added. Zimbabwe is in its 10th year of
economic recession and has the world’s highest inflation rate, 231
million percent, following a land-redistribution campaign begun by
Mugabe in 2000. The program, in which white-owned commercial farms were
seized for redistribution to black farmers deprived of land during
colonial rule, slashed agricultural output and led to shortages of
basic commodities.