Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is expected to announce new dates for a meeting between Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF and the two opposition MDC formations to discuss the draft constitutional bill, The Herald reported on Monday.
Mbeki had to cancel a meeting, which was scheduled to take place in South Africa last Wednesday, after learning that MDC-T's chief negotiator Tendai Biti was in the United States.
The rescheduled meeting was expected on Monday in South Africa, but all the three parties involved said they had not yet been informed of the new dates by late Sunday.
Zanu-PF negotiator Patrick Chinamasa said he did not know when they were going to travel to South Africa for the talks. "I do not know anything. I have just disembarked from a plane and there is nothing I can tell you about the talks," he was quoted as saying.
MDC-T spokesman Nelson Chamisa was equally in the dark. "We are having a meeting this evening and I am sure that we are going to touch on this issue," he said.
Constitutional Amendment (No. 19) Bill will, if it gets the required approval in Parliament, formalize the new posts of Prime Minister and two deputies and spell out their duties and responsibilities, among other things.
The government finished the draft last week and submitted it to Mbeki, who then convened a meeting of the three parties to discuss the contents.
Source: Xinhua
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