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Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | yesterday
The secret talks in progress between Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe are not a "new dawn" for Zimbabwe, as some South African media seem to imagine. And they have very little to do with President Thabo Mbeki's diplomacy. Mugabe has been forced to the negotiating table by Zimbabwe's visibly disintegrating economy and his growing isolation in Africa and the region. He has few remaining friends, no...
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Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Johannesburg - Talks between Zimbabwe's political parties on the formation of a powersharing government got underway in earnest Thursday in South Africa . Negotiators from President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and a splinter MDC faction led by Arthur Mutambara had begun the talks at a secret location, a senior MDC source...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Johannesburg - Talks between Zimbabwe's political parties on the formation of a powersharing government got underway in earnest Thursday in South Africa. Negotiators from President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's ...
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Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
By Garikai Chimuka The recent signing in Harare of the Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU)as a precursor to a negotiated settlement by ZANU PF President, Robert Mugabe, MDC President , Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara representing the small breakaway MDC renegades has raised interesting debate throughout the world. One of the key fundamental discourse that has emerged is whether Robert Mugabe...
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Afrigator (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Credit - Africa Festival Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai is Zimbabwe's leader of the opposition party MDC. ABOUT THE AUTHORWebsite:Email: By Open Letter from the President of the Movement for Democratic Change, Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai, on the Signing of the Memorandum of UnderstandingJuly 22, 2008 My fellow Zimbabweans,Yesterday I signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Mr. Robert Mugabe and Prof. Arthur Mutambara....
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The Shebeen (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Few Zimbabweans ever imagined the prospect of President Robert Mugabe sitting in the same room with his political archrival, Morgan Tsvangirai of the...
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
New York, UN - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the agreemen t signed between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
AS REPRESENTATIVES of the leaders who signed an agreement to hold talks on solving Zimbabwe's political crisis gathered in Pretoria to begin the process yesterday, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai warned there were no guarantees of success.
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Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
On the streets of Harare, there was deep unease about Morgan Tsvangirai's decision to enter power-sharing talks with Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu (PF) party. A photograph taking up half the front page of the propaganda Herald newspaper, with Mr Mugabe holding the hands of Mr Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara - the leader of a smaller faction of the MDC - produced a sense of shock among many. “Tsvangirai...
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The Shebeen (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe broke the ice on Monday when they shook hands and talked one-on-one, mostly in private behind...
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The Shebeen (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Thanks to HistoryMatters we now have the full test of the MOU that Robert Mugabe of Zanu PF, Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic...
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Get Mash (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai agreed Monday to start urgent negotiations toward forming a new government, a first but very tentative step toward ending the nation’s political stalemate. Read the full story
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Bush Radio 89.5 fm Newsroom (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By Mishkah Anthony 22 July 2008 President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have vowed to draw a line under Zimbabwe’s political crisis. They signed a joint agreement on a framework for talks, facilitated by President Thabo Mbeki. The South African President said the memorandum of understanding was agreed unanimously without reservations by anybody. Mugabe called for a new way of...
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Zimbabwe’s president and his main political rival have signed an agreement for formal talks. The deal provides the groundwork to end political violence and establish some sort of coalition government between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
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This is Zimbabwe (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
This report was released jointly by !Enough and Impunity Watch. It came out yesterday - the same day Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai were signing their Memorandum of Understanding. It explores the “Legal options available in holding accountable President Robert Mugabe for possible international crimes”: “This discussion paper will highlight the parameters of the legal options [...]
