The Botswana government has dismissed a report that appeared in the Zimbabwe government’s mouthpiece ,The Herald which claimed that Botswana has changed its stance and endorsed the Power sharing talks.
The Herald reported in its Monday edition:
Botswana’s Foreign Minister Phandu Skelemani, who represented the country at the summit after President Seretse Khama Ian Khama boycotted in protest against President Mugabe’s attendance, asked for more time to review the documents presented to him by the South African leader.
“The next day when the organ met again, he said he had spent the whole night reviewing the material and had not slept at all.
“He said his analysis of the situation was that Tsvangirai had misled them on Zimbabwe’s political processes.
“He said they had been misinformed and were of the opinion that Tsvangirai should accept the agreement that President Mbeki had facilitated as it was quite reasonable. His exact words were, ‘What more does Tsvangirai expect?’ But we cannot order him to accept the agreement, all we can do is try and persuade him to see sense’,” Skelemani said.
However Skelemani told Botswana media in Johannesburg that Botswana voiced its concerns on the role of Morgan Tsvangirai as prime minister and will continue to boycott events attended by Mugabe as president.
“We explained what we thought could be Mr Tsvangirai’s role as prime minister is one where he does not only have a job to do but the authority to run the ministries in the envisioned government of national unity.” Skelemani said.
Skelemani further said Botswana’s boycott of the summit was successful and has drawn the attention of the world to the problem in Zimbabwe and until an agreement is reached between the negotiating parties, Botswana would not attend any event where Mugabe attends in his capacity as the president of Zimbabwe.
Skelemani , further said he believed negotiations could be concluded within weeks.
“By all indications we are getting there. As soon as the parties, with the help of Mr Mbeki sit down after arriving back home, there is no reason why they can not reach an agreement by the end of August as not a lot remains if there is the spirit of give and take,” he said.
Meanwhile the Movement for Democratic Change says it is not opposed to the opening of parliament but will reject any moves by President Robert Mugabe to appoint a cabinet before an agreement is sealed.
“If he (Mugabe) goes further and appoints a cabinet, it will be against the letter and spirit of the MOU,” party spokesperson Tapiwa Mashakada told SABC News.
talk of investigative journalism…goes to show the Herald is not a credible source of info.
We get paid for the lies….
What do yu expect some of us to do in such a THORNY ,MEGA HYPER INFLATIONARY economy…
Please Leave us like that
This is just another dreamt up fictitious report by an uneducated zanu reporter.They can print as many lies as they want but they will never be able to stop the truth from being reported on the internet.The internet is mugabes biggest headache.The herald must keep up with it’s ficticious reports because we all need to have a good laugh every day when we see how desperately the dying zanu is trying to hold on to power.
The Herald has excellent comedy writers. The articles are hilarious, and I’d love to be a fly on the wall to listen in on their article planning meetings. It would be a hoot.
Botswana you make me laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggggggggghhhhhhhh!!!! pwiwpwiowpwpwpwpwpwpwpwpwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! you breaking me apart Mr Skelemani hhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihooooooooooo!!!!! Zimbabwe will never lose sleep over your country boycots! never never ever a thousand times! What benefit do we get from you? except when Zimbabwean man want to have a variety on women they just cross over and take advantage on yr loose women! Go hang before Bush use you! Jerks!!!
Morgidza you are a very big joke just like your Mugabe chamunogona kutukirira,kushaya hunhu chaiko ,Botswana has taken a position it deems to be in accordance with its values there is nothing wrong with that.Tsika dzedu isu vanhu ve Zimbabwe kuwadzana nokugarisana nevamwe zvakanaka ,katsika kekutukirira kubva kuma leaders kakatanga na Mugabe, nemiwo mofunga kuti thats being patriotic and African, kwete bodo mwana wa mai warasika .A system of govrernace which is transparent and people oriented is what Zimbabweans are crying for, is that too much to ask and remember Tsvangirai is not infallible hence the cry for democratic values that will empower people and not politicians.Ndozvirikurambwa na Mugabe to empower his people .
morgidza has lost the plot.He is another zanu comedian.His writings reflect those of the herald.It is people like morgidza who cross over to Botswana for women because the Zimbabwe women are not good enough for him.morgidza,you belong to a dying party.zanu is sinking and it has no life boats.The world is watching you go down with a big fat smile on their face.Time is no problem as zanu slowly execute themselves.What goes around comes around.
walalalalal wlwlwwiwdsbc,z\mx n pffiffifififfiififififif[ , Zimbabweans what benefit ? what democracy do we get from tswanaz read yr history very well. Morgan Tea bhoyi should value Zimbabwean people first not his on political millage, he gets when he “see saw up and down” pama talks apa! For sure hapana chatinowana Kubva kuBots I repeat go hang Khama and Skelemani! Zimbabwe will lose nothing nothing nothing for sure! Imagine we said keep yr England and we keep Zimbabwe to ourselves. So Khama keep yr whores and drunkards Zimbabwe will prosper in everyway.
MORGIDZA I’M SORRY BUT URI ****!
HOW MANY ZIMBABWEANS ARE IN BOTSWANA? (IRONICALLY, YOUR OWN HERALD COLUMNIST WAS KICKED OUT RECENTLY FROM BOTS) WHAT ARE THEY DOING THERE?
MOREOVER, WHERE HAS ENGLAND ENTERED IN THIS DISCUSSION? GO AND SUCK BOB’S **** (IF HE HAS ANY)
I HOPE AND PRAY THAT YOU (MOGIDZA TSVANGWA) ARE IN ZIMBABWE. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE THE COUNTRY THEN IT’S A DOUBLE SHAME FOR YOU AND YOUR WHOLE CLAN. I ALMOST GOT THE TEMPTATION TO UTTER INSULTS AT YOU BUT I MAY END UP BEING ANOTHER MANGUAM LIKE YOU! NDONYARIRA IWE, MUTAMBARA PAMW****TE NEZANU.
SHAME!!!
Moginza is a shame i dont think he is Zimbabwean.Are his children reading what he posts on this site? He is a shame to his children that is if he has any.He talks about ladies.What has that got to do with gorvenance.Kura my brother you are behind.
Please dont waste time discussing botswana-it was a british protectorate during the boer war and it is still under british control. they have never experienced a war and racism like we did in zimbabwe. before independence in 1980 they never used to send their kids to zim for education why? come 1980 after our hard won independence all these bushwomen flocked into zim for some education-even now they come and steal our zvayi from the herald to teach in their universities…fools. being a british protectorate they realised gordon was not happy with that situation and they deported him. is that democracy ? botswana should be kicked out of SADCC.
enough about tuma bushmen—-mutambara has now seen the light. mugabe for years has ben trying to tell the west to go hang and not to interfere in our internal affairs-at least mutambara has seen the light. education pays in the end. morgan is hard work becuase he is uneducated. but i hope he will see the light one day. the people he relies on will turn their back on him one day. look at goergia-under attack but bush’s promises of support are nowhere…just humanitarian aid. and how about sanctions on russia? they happily splash sanctions on zimbabwe but georgia a sovereign state is attacked nothing happens—-saddam attacked kuwait and within hours he was under fire-why not in georgia? these people should never be trusted-morgan has to learn that for africa to progress we must come up with our own solutions even if it takes time. foget the west-they will give you donations with devastating long term consequencies.
morgan and khama have become puppets of the west. go hang. mutamabara has seen the light at last.amen
And son of boboon speaks again.Your ship is sinking,time to abort.
if we all have Zimbabwe at heart, then the way for true democracy will not as hilly as the Zanoids want it to be. A government , who as a trustee of the natural rights of the people, should it fail to protect and comply with its constitutional contratual obligation of protecting those rights, would automatically forfeit its office and leave the people free to conclude a subsequent social compact with the new sovereign. But this is not the case in Zmbabwe. A Zimbabwean perspective shows that, Zimbabweans are once in every few years given the an unfair short opprtunity to vote; to elect representatives form the oppressing class, who will repress them for another term. When people complain, they are labelled, ‘enemies of the state’. People have been oppressed, people have and are indeed fighting for their quest for social justice. Therefore, its war with the Zanoids. However, everything that has the beginning has an end. Zanoids will certainly perish its a matter of time.
MDC-MENTALLY DELUDED BY COLONIALISTS. STOP DAY DREAMING-ZANU PF IS FOR LIFE.
ZPF4EVA
TUESDAY PARLIAMENT WILL BEGIN WITH OR WITHOUT MORGAN. KEEP ZIMBABWE MOVING. MORGAN IS HAPPY WITH THE STATUS QUO-HE IS WELL FED BY BROWN AND BUSH. SIGN THE ****ING DOCUMENT BITCH.
This dog morgidza mwana wembwa sibili.we are suffering here in zimbabwe and you are busy scoldind our blood brothers like,bastard.You resemble kuita kwa jonathan moyo the nutty professor,pfutseki wako mhani imbwa yemunhu,chidhodhi chihombe.washa zvekunyora enda unoridza ngoma dzezvigure mhani.