The negotiators of the three parties are meeting today in Nyanga to discuss what they hoped to table before the South African president.
“Negotiators will be working this weekend, and the facilitation team will return on 25 or 26 June,” Lindiwe Zulu, Zuma’s special adviser on international affairs, said.
“When they return to South Africa, they will meet Zuma, depending on the feedback, then we would have a date when the president (Zuma) will come there (Zimbabwe).”Zulu said Zuma would only come to Zimbabwe when there was progress.
The negotiators’ meeting will also zero in on the constitution-making process, with the hope of giving it an impetus to Copac to conclude its work.
However, the Sadc troika meeting had suggested that the South African leader immediately visit Zimbabwe to get the faltering negotiations moving again. It had been indicated that the negotiators felt they were failing to agree among themselves and Zuma had been tasked with coming up with a structure that would ensure that negotiations were back on track.
“We told them that we were failing to agree on anything on our own and the facilitator should come and kickstart the process for us,” a source who attended the Luanda meeting said.
As if to indicate the lack of pace in the implementation of the GPA, a Sadc team that is supposed to join the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (Jomic), is yet to start work in the country, as they have not been officially told to start.
The Sadc team was in the country together with the South African mediation team, but has since returned to their respective countries, as they await an official invite.
