Secretary General Tendai Biti had cast doubt on Tsvangirai’s availability after saying Tsvangirai would not travel on an emergency travel document.
But speaking to journalists in Bulawayo the Prime Minister designate said, With or without a passport, I will attend.’
After a SADC troika of Angola, Mozambique and Swaziland failed last week to break the deadlock over the allocation of ministries, a full summit of all
15 members will try and rescue the power sharing deal signed in September.
SADC has said it will now hold the extraordinary meeting this weekend. South Africa’s Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Monday said the meeting will take place on Sunday 9th November in South Africa. The meeting is set to also tackle the situation in the war torn DRC.
Meanwhile Tsvangirai used the launch of a documentary on the Gukurahundi massacres in Bulawayo to call for a truth commission that will investigate all atrocities committed in the country. The MDC leader said such a commission had to look at atrocities dating back to the Gukurahundi massacres.
This country has gone through a lot of traumatic experiences. What we have to accept is that in order to heal there must be justice, and in order to have justice there must be truth. That is the only way which can help us move forward as a nation. Unless the truth is told, there cannot be healing and reconciliation,’ he said.
Tsvangirai also accused Mugabe and his government of being pre-occupied with power-retention.’
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