Mbeki, whose party last week forced him to resign in a separate power struggle, mediated the deal between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to form a unity government.
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05 October 2008
By Never Kadungure
President Robert Mugabe’s party claimed Sunday that a unity government with the MDC was 2 cabinet posts away. According to the state controlled Sunday Mail newspaper, ‘President Mugabe and the leaders of the two main opposition parties met in Harare yesterday (Saturday) and narrowed their differences to the allocation of just two Cabinet posts as talks on the composition of the proposed all-inclusive Government continued.’
‘After a two-hour meeting at State House, President Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai of MDC-T and Professor Arthur Mutambara of MDC failed to reach an agreement on which party would run the Ministries of Finance and Home Affairs.’ The paper further claimed the parties had referred the matter to their negotiating teams.
"The President and the leaders of the two MDC formations met this morning (yesterday) in consultation over the setting up of Government but failed to conclude their consultations. They, however, decided that there should be further consultation at the level of their negotiating teams exclusively over the Ministries of Finance and Home Affairs," presidential spokesperson George Charamba said in a statement.
Speaking for the MDC party spokesman Nelson Chamisa denied any progress had been made. “That is not correct (that only two ministries remain). The entire package has not been settled. There hasn’t been any resolution. We cannot talk of ‘remaining ministries’ because it is a negotiation of the entire set of ministries. It is clear that the arrogance and rigidity continues on the part of Zanu-PF. You cannot grab and take all. That is not genuine power sharing.’
"There has been no paradigm shift on the part of Zanu-PF. If there is no movement for too long a time, there’ll be no option but to go to the next port of call, the AU and Sadc, who are the guarantors of the agreement we signed. We cannot negotiate in perpetuity. We need to allow our people to plan and to chart the way forward."
Later on Sunday Chamisa said that negotiators were going back to the table to find what he called "a domestic remedy" before deciding whether it was necessary to call back mediators.
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