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HARARE – Military generals dabbling in politics will be forced to retire if Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai wins the next election. Tsvangirai, whose relations with the military top hierarchy is rocky, said this in Bulawayo on Friday.
SADC leaders are reportedly disturbed by state security service chiefs’ brazen meddling in local politics ahead of watershed elections and are pressing the facilitator, South African President Jacob Zuma, to tackle the issue at his next meeting with GPA principals.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has revealed that SADC leaders on Friday expressed shock that there was still politically motivated violence and murder in Zimbabwe and this lead to a discussion of events surrounding the death of MDC-T official, Cephas Magura.
HARARE – South African President Jacob Zuma’s facilitation team has trashed threats by President Robert Mugabe to ditch them as Sadc-appointed mediators to Zimbabwe’s political crisis.
Zanu PF spin doctor and serial political turncoat Jonathan Moyo’s future in the former ruling party hangs by the thread with top officials in the party baying for his blood saying he was destroying the organisation from within.
Southern African leaders prepared on Sunday to again pressure Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to make democratic reforms ahead of new elections, after a day of talks failed to settle the issue. Leaders of the 15-nation Southern African Development Community met late on Saturday on the eve of a broader free trade summit.