Zim elections 'could be free'
18/02/2008 14:09  - (SA)  

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Pretoria - The chance of a free and fair election in Zimbabwe is "good" if all the agreements reached as part of the political facilitation process are implemented, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Monday.

"If they implement the laws that Parliament passed around security, information and media, and all those laws that the opposition wanted done and they all agreed (upon)," Dlamini-Zuma said in response to a question at a press conference.

"All those things should be implemented now in the run-up and during the election - if they implement (them) then the prospects should be good," Dlamini-Zuma said, referring to agreements between President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and factions of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) as part of mediation effort by President Thabo Mbeki.

US President George W Bush, who is on a trip to several African countries, said Sunday that Zimbabwe should hold "free and fair elections" in order for its people to get a government that respects human rights.

Ahead of his trip he expressed disappointment, in comment made to the Voice of America, in Mbeki as a broker in the political stand-off between the political groups.

Zimbabwe is due to hold joint parliamentary and presidential elections on March 29.

- SAPA

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