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President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia, who is also the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Troika chairperson on Wednesday convened an Extraordinary SADC summit to discuss the disputed elections held in Zimbabwe and the security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
HARARE – Zanu PF spin doctor and former Information minister, Jonathan Moyo on Thursday night clashed with South African ambassador to Zimbabwe, Vusi Mavimbela at a public discussion, with the serial political flip-flopper accusing the envoy of “undiplomatic behaviour.”
Robert Mugabe and his ZANU PF delegation were last week left with egg on their faces when Zambian president Michael Sata kept coming up with sarcastic lines during the SADC Troika meeting.
President Jacob Zuma will now have a hands-on-approach to Zimbabwe’s political crisis amid fears in Zanu PF that last week’s SADC extraordinary summit held in Angola effectively ended President Robert Mugabe’s ambition to stand in elections.
The SADC Troika on Peace, Defence and Security meeting that was scheduled for yesterday evening was deferred to today after its chairman President Jacob Zuma of South Africa failed to turn up.
Predicting future events in Zimbabwe’s general cultural practice is usually the preserve of spirit mediums, prophets and scientists. Political predictions are more difficult even for “specialists” in that line of work writes Takura Zhangazha.
Zanu PF’s increasing desperation was highlighted this week when the party claimed it will resist SADC monitors because they ‘infringe on our sovereignty.’ Despite it being agreed at the last SADC summit, Zanu PF is now claiming the appointment of non-Zimbabweans is problematic.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is deeply concerned by the decision of the SADC Troika’s Ministerial Committee to remove Zimbabwe from its agenda, on the grounds that the situation in the country has “normalized”.
The state media in Zimbabwe might be claiming victory for Zanu PF at the weekend SADC summit in South Africa but Nehanda Radio.com can report an entirely different picture after Robert Mugabe and Jacob Zuma engaged in a heated exchange.
In the two years since the establishment of the interim government, ZANU PF and the two MDCs have fared rather differently. For the once-dominant ruling party, the dent to its self-perception as the uncontested representative of the Zimbabwean people, provided by the 2008 result and power sharing arrangement that followed, forced a reappraisal of its future.