Mbeki says MDC talks coming up
2004-10-21 21:27
Cape Town - President Thabo Mbeki says his government is scheduled to hold talks with the official Zimbabwean opposition the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) "this week".
Although he did not specify who would be in the delegations or where the talks would be held, he said during question time in the National Assembly on Thursday afternoon that there was "ongoing interaction" and his government had been "regularly in contact with the government (President Robert Mugabe''s Zanu- PF) and the opposition party (Morgan Tsvangirai''s MDC)."
Responding to a question from Democratic Alliance chief whip Douglas Gibson who asked about South Africa''s involvement in the troubled states of Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Sudan, Mbeki said his government had in the last four weeks "probably had four meetings with the leadership of the MDC."
They had looked at current issues affecting Zimbabwe and ways of taking matters forward, Mbeki reported.