The two were the special guests on Wednesday night at the launch of Africa’s Third Liberation, a new book authored by Geoff Herbst and Greg Mills.
They discussed issues of mutual interest including the political and economic developments in the two sister countries.
The Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Hon Jameson Timba, briefed both PM Tsvangirai and President Banda about a forged invitation letter to the Malawi President purportedly coming from the Prime Minister’s Office in Harare.
President Banda described those behind the forged letter as pursuing “primitive politics”.
PM Tsvangirai said the plot explained why the people of Zimbabwe had engaged in a democratic struggle in the past 13 years to change such primitive politics.
Addressing the gathering at the book launch, PM Tsvangirai said Africa’s liberation icons had betrayed the values of the liberation struggles.
“They went into office without a plan and today, the new crop of African leaders has to deal with the economy to provide jobs to the millions of our young people,” he said.
The Premier said the post-liberation formations had to deal with the failures of liberation formations that had no policies to rescue the continent.
“Even when some political parties go to their Congresses, they never discuss policy but are preoccupied with positions.”
President Banda told gathering that Africa should concentrate on economic development rather than the failed policies of the past.
She warned that failure to provide jobs for the millions of young people in Malawi and other African countries was a potential for disaster, adding that the Arab springs were the clearest sign that an idle but active population without jobs could be a source of instability.
Post published in: Africa News