The news was revealed by the co-chairman of the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (JOMIC) Elton Mangoma, who said the team has now been reduced to just two members. South Africa was to appoint the third rep, but it was decided their role as facilitators was adequate. President Zuma also chairs the Troika Organ on Security, which the teams report to.
The other two Troika representatives will be appointed from Mozambique and Zambia. “The facilitators have undertaken to send envoys to those two countries to identify who will be their Troika reps,” Mangoma told SW Radio Africa on Thursday.
At a summit in Lusaka back in May, SADC resolved to appoint a team that would help speed up implementation of the issues agreed to by Zimbabwe’s political parties. This was after the regional leaders criticized the unity government for their slow progress in implementing the GPA.
SADC has since held summits in Sandton, South Africa and Luanda in Angola, which simply “reaffirmed” the resolutions that were made in Lusaka. Meanwhile, progress towards elections in Zimbabwe has stalled.
Speaking on the Crisis Analysis programme, Mangoma said: “The urgency of the situation has been made clear to SADC and they know that ZANU PF is using delay tactics. They also want the outstanding issues in the GPA to be resolved.”
ZANU PF has insisted that they will not accept the involvement of Troika representatives in Zimbabwe’s affairs. But Mangoma said it is not up to them to decide, and no election will be deemed credible without monitoring by SADC authorities.
Lindiwe Zulu, who heads President Zuma’s facilitation team, told SW Radio Africa she did not know any specific details regarding the appointment of the Troika team to assist JOMIC.
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