Zambia is hopeful that Monday’s extraordinary SADC Heads of State Summit will yield positive results in finding a lasting solution to the Zimbabwean political crisis.
And President, Rupiah Banda, is expected to arrive in South Africa today to attend the extraordinary Summit called to discuss the political situation in Zimbabwe, scheduled to be held at the Presidential Guest House in the South African administrative capital, Pretoria.
Zambian High Commissioner to South Africa, Leslie Mbula, who confirmed President Banda’s attendance, said Zambia looks forward to a positive outcome from the Summit as peace in Zimbabwe is peace in Zambia and the region as a whole.
The South African government has called the extraordinary meeting, in its capacity as current Chair of the 14 member regional grouping, to try to break the ongoing impasse in the formation of a government of national unity following last year’s disputed presidential elections.
President Banda is expected to arrive at Oliver Thambo International airport about 14:45 hours on Sunday and will be accompanied by Foreign Affairs Minister, Kabinga Pande, and his Permanent Secretary, Tens Kapoma, among other officials,.
Zambia’s High Commissioner to Botswana, who is also accredited to SADC, Reuben Musakabantu, is already in Pretoria ahead of the Summit.
Mr Mbula said the President is coming for a very serious meeting aimed at finding a lasting solution to the political impasse in neighbouring Zimbabwe, which has been going on for a long time.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have failed in their latest attempts to form a unity government brokered by SADC mediator former South African President Thabo Mbeki in which Tsvangirai is supposed to become prime minister while Mugabe stays as President.
The deal first faltered after the MDC accused Mugabe of wanting to take the most powerful cabinet posts.
The SADC extraordinary meeting follows a decision of the meeting held in Harare last Monday attended by SADC Chairperson, Kgalema Montlanthe, deputy chairperson, Armando Guebuza and Facilitator Thabo Mbeki with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and breakaway MDC leader Arthur Mutambara.
The political deadlock has worsened the problems facing Zimbabwean from Cholera epidemic, food shortages, skyrocketing inflation.
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lets hope so :d
just wait for mugabe to kick the backet
Good morning People. Thanks LT for the News. Now let me read
This issue about Zimbabwe is a tiresome one,just how many times have african leaders said about solving the zimbabwan issue.Probably they should just fold their alms and forget about the whole thing coz it seems that Mugabe will always cling to power no matter what :((
VIVA BOB!
#2 good just wait for mugabe to kick the backet and join the hell choir
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have failed in their latest attempts to form a unity government brokered by SADC mediator former South African President Thabo Mbeki in which Tsvangirai is supposed to become prime minister while Mugabe stays as President.**** Honestly up to when this man*** This Morgan also he cant see that the old is close to… sorry. Primister then very soon he will be presdo. Open your eyes Morgan.:-w:-w:-w
WELCOME TO AFRICA!! WHERE ANYTHING GOES!!!!
POVERTY HAS TAUGHT THIS CONTINENT A LESSON. BUT NO ONE HAS LEARNT THIS LESSON PROPERLY. IT IS NOT JUST A SHORTAGE OF FOOD BUT ALSO A LUCK OF KNOWLEDGE WHICH CAUSES MORE HARM!!!
MUGABE IS NOT THE PROBLEM!!! THE PROBLEM IS THE ILLUSION THAT THESE AFRICAN LEADERS HAVE, IN THINKING THAT YOU CAN ALWAYS QUESTION THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE!!
ONCE THE PEOLPE HAVE DECIDED YOU CAN NOT QUESTION THAT!!
waste of taxpayers money, people are eating roots while RB is busy gallavanting the continent with his escorts
ALL LT BLOGGERS TO ESCORT AND DANCE FOR THE PRESIDENT . THE PROGRAM IS AS FOLLOWS :M.HHEHHE SINGING AND DANCING AND BEATING THE DRUMS AND……….TO LINE UP ON ROADS LEADING TO THE AIRPORT.I WILL KEEP ON UPDATING YOU ON THE PROGRAM FROM STATE HOUSE
Those wishing BOB to kick the bucket (naturally) will have to endure a very long wait.
SADC is a sure waste of time. They will just go there, pat Mugabe on the back, drink a few glasses of champagne and eat of morsels of caviar and go back to their capitals. Meanwhile, the Zimbabweans won’t even have tissue to clean themselves from the cholera that is decimating the country.
jamaco boyi, lelo ndelyako isabi ilyauma. naligalako notufinkubala utwa next weekend. twanyanya na lidl na asda mwe.
#13 Ine lelo kuli Sea Food!! I would give anything for finkubala and isabi ilyauma.
Enjoy your Meal!! Too much Lidl kuno imwe.
IT IS long known that Morgan Tsvangirai >:p is handled by the worst of the West.
Chi Tsvangirai is the proverbial whirlwind: always turning and turning, always ever widening the gyre. You cannot tether him to any agreement, to any principle, outside what his masters endorse. chi moneni.
What else should they expect, negative results?:-?
fellow bloggers. when are we going to learn to use this blog for eduactional comments instead of talking about food and other crap. anyway, levels of [mis] education. guest most of you are from the Copperbelt!!
#16 IT IS RIGHT TO RESIST AN OLD MAN BUSY PULLING AFRICA’S PANTS DOWN!!!!
fellow bloggers. when are we going to learn to use this blog for eduactional comments instead of talking about food and other crap. anyway, levels of [mis] education. GUESS most of you are from the Copperbelt!!
#20 THERE IS NOTHING WRONG FOR CUP OF COFFEE AND SOME FOOD DURING A SADC SUMMIT!! :d
Jamaco. I havent got your point. bt lux like you are against Mugabe. After Monday, it became obvious to Africa that Zimbabwe has become a battleground between right and borrowed might. The strategy of sustaining a fight in which you wield enormous power and influence, but contrastively wield a weak cause and sparse legitimacy, is to keep shifting grounds for placing blame, to keep inventing new reasons and circumstances for incrimination. which the west and Morgan are doing
The strategy of sustaining a fight in which you wield enormous power and influence, but contrastively wield a weak cause and sparse legitimacy, is to keep shifting grounds for placing blame, to keep inventing new reasons and circumstances for incrimination. That way, the just underdog [Tsvangirai] is kept running and running until at some point it badly negotiates a sharp turn, in the process creating a vast outrage by tossing a prized pot [Zimbabwe] to pieces.
The only solution to this Zim deadlock is to call for fresh elections. Let Zimbabweans decide who their leaders should be. Since the GNU talks have failed and Morgan continues to make fresh demands at every summit, let’s save time, money and the anguish of seeing Zimbos languish while these guys endlessly argue about who gets which position in govt. The fair verdict lies with the people of Zimbabwe. Fresh election will decide who rules Zim, either old Bob, or teaboy Morgan or the Professor Mtambara. Minus fresh elections we are fishing in an empty pond.
iwe chi lady chiza, you must be an uncouth villager. we are more knowledgeable than your whole clan put together.
Mugabe is the biggest stumbling block in Zimbabwe. It is good that Morgan has called off his bluff.
Tsvangirai is borrowing not just a cause and the wherewithal for fighting it; he is borrowing an ever-renewed language for defending it. It does not matter how many times he flip-flops, how many times he behaves badly. Against the law and common-sense, he remains the winner of the Zimbabwe elections.
#25. you are lucky. Lt warned not to call people like you 3:-o and :(|)
#25. you are lucky. Lt warned us not to call people like you 3:-o and :(|)
Atleast nyama Soya is handsome compared to Tsvangirai :d
I WILL NOT FIND ANY FAVORABLE WORDS FOR MUGABE!! HE HAS FAILED AND SO HE SHOULD GO!!
HE IS WASTING TIME WHILE PEOPLE CONTINUE TO SUFFER!!
ALL THESE SUMMITS SHOULD BE DEALING WITH REAL ISSUES IN AFRICA AND NOT A HOME-MADE PROBLEM LIKE MUGABE!!
IMAGINE RB NOT LEAVING OFFICE AFTER A CLEAR DEFEAT IN ELECTIONS!!
STILL YOU CAN NOT QUESTION THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE!! MUGABE SIMPLY HAS NO RESPECT FOR HIS OWN COUNTRY!! IT IS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE MUGABE THAT WE FAIL TO BECOME GLOBAL PLAYERS!!
OLD MEN COMING OUT OF THE COLONIAL RULE THINK THAT FIGHTING THE WEST SHOULD BE PART OF THEIR AGENDA!! HE SHOULD GO SINCE HIS THINKING IS A THING OF THE PAST!!
LOOK AT THE WAY MUGABE SWINGS WHEN HE COMES OF A SUMMIT!!!
SWING WHILE YOU ARE WINING?
MUGABE IS A MOCKING BIRD!! NOW LET ME GO AND TAKE A WALK NEAR THE RHEIN RIVER!!
NINE CHALE CHEERS TILL LATA
Nyama Soya…please dont go and do your ‘special presidential duties’ ( dozing ) at the summit ! zim issues bore me
Lady chiza, how is your ugly baby doing? Am sure she is as ugly as yourself.
“Zambian High Commissioner to South Africa, Leslie Mbula, who confirmed President Banda’s attendance, said Zambia looks forward to a positive outcome from the Summit as peace in Zimbabwe is peace in Zambia and the region as a whole.”
Please President RB Banda and the rest of the 17 yr old MMD Government, can you please re-think on your participation in the SADC this Zimbabwe issue. I honestly think that Zambia is wasting its money in attending them as the people we are trying to help have failed to show willingness to cooperate. More than 6 months of sitting in unproductive meeting must be clear that it is time to look at our own problems instead of wasting tax payers’ money.
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My personal take is that let us boycott these SADC Zimbabwe meetings and use our money toprovide necessary things to our own Zambian people.
In looking at an LT parallel topic by Wesley Ngwenya, we are wasting a lot of money and man-hours by escorting the President to the airport each time he goes out of the country especially to time-wasting Zimbabwe’s own internal problems since our borther and sisters there aren’t yielding to our proposals. Thus, it is time to quit and leave those that can afford wasting their reources to continue with this Zimbabwe issue.
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Maestro hehehehe, my brother,how are you? How is the search for rib going on? How is your HH? Hahahaha!
Mugabe must meet the wrath of ICC. I cant wait!#:-s
Mugabe is the Hitler in the making. He must step down. We need progressive leaders to tell him the truth not KK of course
This whole Zimbabwe circus can only be sorted out through fresh free and fair elections. While these criminals are arguing over government posts, Zimbos are dying. When will these blood suckers learn to respect the will of the people?
37. Anonymous greetings and thanks. On “Maestro hehehehe, my brother,how are you? How is the search for rib going on? How is your HH? Hahahaha!”, there is not rib search for the moment as National Duties are taken over all such plans for now. The credit crunch has not spared me either and so there is a great deal to accomplsi before such activities can be entertained. As of president HH, he is doing a good job to revive the mighty UPND. Very sson, I am informed, you will here of new faces in addition to the existing ones to carry forward the harnessing and pooling of all resources to ensure 2011 elections are won by a landslide victory.
For now, enough.
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Mugabe is not the problem. Morgan is. He is not consistent in his claims. The next thing Mugabe may form govt. exclusive MDC or he might call fresh election. Already he has dropped his colleagues who lost elections. I personally support fresh elections. If there has to be regime change in Zim, let it be by Zimbabweans themselves. It seems regime change is being influenced from outside of Zimbabwe and by Zimbabweans! We can draw lessons from the past. Idi Amin Dada was toppled by a mixture of Tanzanian and other armies, Milton Obote who took over was a scandal and ended up being overthrown by Rwandan supported Tito Okelo, who in turn was overthrown by Kaguta Museveni. Uganda can’t be said
to be stable to date. The same happened to Zaire where Mobutu Seseko Kuwetu wa Zabanga was overthrown by Laurent Desire Kabila supported by Uganda and Rwanda. He ended up with a fatal bullet in his head. We can’t DRC is stable. The story is the same everywhere, even Iraq were Saddam was overthrown by the Yankees. There is chaos. So the right to go is fresh elections. Although the events that surrounded the campaigns in the last elections were not pleasing at all
meant regime change not influenced by Zimbos
#42 Ayatollah. Your facts, bruv. Yoweri K Museveni overthrew “Mwalimu” Milton Obote after a sucess of mickey mouse leaders among them Tito Okello, Yusuf Lule and Obote himself who eventually came back to power. He was toppled in 1986 by Yoweri. Obote was to settle in Zambia and lived in Long Acres, on Dunduzi Chisiza road until two years ago when he succumbed to mortality. He was eventually buried in his home villag in northern Uganda.
45 Thanks for your clarification. My facts are as I followed the events through the Times of Zambia, then. Tito Okello ruled for a month before Museveni took over. Besides that Okello was an old man
Ayatollah, ako kanono ba nevers, Maestro Hhehhehhehhe, Chitapankwa, Dontcare, Ukunda Ansi. Your contributions are much appreciated. You are constructive today
but RB will be sleeping during the meeting %-(%-( in Zambia it will be like this to him :-??:-??
Lasting solution? Please!
Now that is funny. :d
Bane mulishani bonse?
# 49 Ati shani? Howz the new year people? Hope everything checks out lekker for Zimbabwe’s future during this SADC meeting> :)>-
I have concluded SADC is a toothless organisation that has failed to put Mugabe where he belongs. Diplomacy won’t work with a person like Bob. The likes of the late Levy,current Bots president, Zuma etc if given chance could have sorted out this guy. Time is now or you loose this nation, use military intervention(FORCE).
#46 AYATOLLAH, retract your gratitude you posted to #45.you were right and he is wrong.to begin with milton obote never assumed the tiltle of mwalimu.mwalimu was julius nyerere of tanzania. Secondly as you rightly put it IDI AMIN was toppled by tanzanian forces who installed Milton oboted as president.his second term was marred by repression and vegeance.in 1985 the okello’s tito and bazilio olara no relationship ousted obote but only reigned for six months before they were toppled by museveni with his NRM. Obote actually died in 2005 in south africa but was buried in his homeland
#27,ignore other peoples rantings.. but
Please dont ignore this one..
How is your almost 1 and 1/ week old baby??
good wishes are coming your way…
lady? <:-p@};-
Other people mention ugliness when they themselves are ugly like a fresh insokanda.
Check in the mirror first and check yourself out;’
Everyone was made in God’s own image.. who are you? :-t:-t:-t:-t:-t:-t:-@:-@:-@:-@
Govt should fight povery home,Mugabe doesnt want to be arrested like Nkunda. **==
Zimbabwe is better than Zambian where leaders are flown to South africa each week