Mugabe to Form a New Zimbabwe Cabinet As “soon As Possible”

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe will announce a new cabinet “as soon as possible” after winning a reprieve from fellow southern African leaders who met Sunday in South Africa to discuss Harare’s political crisis, state-owned Radio Zimbabwe reported on Monday.

Mugabe said this as he headed home from South Africa where he attended an emergency summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which had been called to resolve a two-month impasse over the allocation of cabinet posts.

The SADC summit ended in a stalemate, resulting in the regional leaders ordering the “immediate” formation of a unity government involving members of Mugabe’s ZANU PF and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of Morgan Tsvangirai.

Under a power-sharing agreement signed in September by the two men and Arthur Mutambara of a smaller MDC faction, Tsvangirai would become prime minister in the unity government.

Tsvangirai, however, has rejected the idea of sharing the contentious home affairs ministry as ruled by the SADC leaders on Sunday, prompting Mugabe to inform Radio Zimbabwe that he would go it alone to set up the cabinet.

Source African Press Agency

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