SADC fails to break the cabinet deadlock

Tomaz Salomao, executive secretary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), said that an emergency summit had decided that “the inclusive government be formed forthwith in Zimbabwe.”
Both the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and Mugabe’s long-ruling ZANU-PF want control of the powerful home affairs ministry. Salomao said the summit had told the rivals that they needed to appoint co-ministers to the post.
“In practical terms, you have two ministers, one appointed by ZANU-PF, one by MDC,” he said.
However, the MDC has rejected the SADC recommendation to share the ministry of home affairs.
“This issue of co-sharing does not work. We have said so ourselves, we have rejected it, and that’s the position,” Tsvangirai told reporters.
“There is no agreement to co-sharing, to rotation, to swapping of ministries,” he said.
Tsvangirai said that his dispute with Mugabe was not only about the ministry of home affairs, but striking a fair balance of power in the unity government.
“It is about power sharing, it is about equitable power sharing, it is about giving the responsibility to the party that won an election and has compromised its position to share a government with a party that lost,” he said.