HARARE Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirais MDC-T party has appealed to both South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to intervene to help break a deadlock in talks to resolve outstanding issues and other differences threatening the Zimbabwes unity government. We are going no where on the dialogue and therefore it is very important for President Zuma and South Africa to step in and step in quickly, Finance Minister and MDC-T chief negotiator Tendai Biti told journalists in Harare last Thursday.
Biti, who was speaking moments after meeting a group of United States congressmen who were in the country to assess the progress of the unity government, said: We as negotiators have reached our ceiling. It should be taken out of our hands. Continuing to let us negotiate we are wasting time because we have tried.
The MDC accuses President Robert Mugabe of refusing to swear-in party treasurer-general Roy Bennett as deputy agriculture minister, appoint five provincial governors from the party and end the tenure of the attorney general and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor.
Mugabe in turn says Bennett would be sworn in only if he is acquitted of terrorism and banditry charges he is facing and that the MDC should lobby its allies in the West for the removal of sanctions imposed on the veteran leader and his inner circle.
He also says Tsvangirai should convince what he says are private radio stations broadcasting into Zimbabwe from outside the country to stop disseminating “propaganda” messages into Zimbabwe.
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