Posted on 08/10/2008 6:48:30 AM PDT by TLI
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has begun further power-sharing talks amid reports that leaders are close to a deal which will name Morgan Tsvangirai as prime minister.
Mediator South African President Thabo Mbeki has started meetings today as state radio reported they may soon reach an agreement.
The spokesman for Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF said the party, after lengthy talks to try to end a post-election crisis, wants any unity government to last five years.
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Mr Tsvangirai would become premier in the arrangement under discussion, although his powers were still being debated.
Zimbabweans are longing for a government which can ease the world's highest inflation rate officially estimated at 2.2 million per cent and chronic food, fuel and foreign currency shortages.
Mr Mugabe, aged 84 and in power since 1980, has attracted heavy criticism from the West after claims of vote-rigging and electoral violence during polls earlier this year.
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If anyone wants to see what run away socialism gets you all you have to do is look at Zimbabwe. What I fail to understand is why Mugabe hasn’t been strung up by now by his own people. My only hope is that he receives his just rewards when he crosses over to the other side for all of the misery and heartbreak he has caused on this earth.
Good point and without being so un-pee-cee as to cause trouble around here the reason they have not pushed him up against a wall in front of a firing squad is the very reason they should have NEVER have gone to majority rule.
What you are seeing is uncountable generations of drifting tribes that are suddenly expected to become cohesive and run an entire nation.
Well, we see just how well THAT worked out.
Meet the new boss,same as the old boss.
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