Minister for Reconciliation, Healing and Integration is on a visit to Australia to accept her Sydney Peace Prize which she was awarded for her efforts to further political reform in Zimbabwe.
Holland told Australian media she was now comfortable being involved in the unity government.
“All the things Zanu PF are saying are just sulking because they know they are going,” she said.
“We know they are going, and we know that things we are signing together are going to happen because they are by agreement.
“So the more ridiculous the statements become, the closer the end for them is. They can sense it.”
Holland said the situation in Zimbabwe had improved since 2008 and 2009, when political instability made headlines in Australia, and expressed confidence the political changes would be long-lasting.
She described the Global Political Agreement as a “peace document” which allowed politicians a framework to re-build civil institutions in Zimbabwe.
“Our understanding of what the inclusive government was has been clarified by reading through the Global Political Agreement,” she said.
“It is meant to get Zimbabweans setting up new institutions, new systems, new protocols, new regulations to prepare the country for free and fair elections.
“Secondly, to have elections that have an outcome, that is, not contestable and have a smooth transition to a new government. That’s what it was aimed to achieve and what we are on course to achieving.”
Holland, who lived in Australia in the 1960s and 1970s to study, worked with Aboriginal Australian groups.
She also used her wide-ranging peace prize lecture and television to inject herself into the local political issues, criticising Sydney police’s use of tasers, sexism and lamented the lack of progress in improving the life quality of Aboriginal Australians.
Holland was also awarded a trophy and $50,000.
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