Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is pressing ahead with the formation of a new government following invitations extended to the opposition to join the structures agreed upon in the broad-based agreement signed last year, The Herald reported on Monday.
Sources were quoted by the newspaper as saying that a new government is most likely to be in place by the end of February by which time it is expected that the three parliamentary political parties will have passed Constitutional Amendment Number 19 Bill and Mugabe will have signed it into law.
One of Zanu-PF's negotiators on Sunday met former South African President Thabo Mbeki's facilitation team to discuss the latest developments and how best to proceed, the daily newspaper said.
Nicholas Goche, who is the ruling Zanu-PF's secretary for national security in the Politburo and Public Service Minister, was in Musina on Saturday to brief the facilitators on recent developments and to map the way forward.
"Though President Mugabe is on his annual retreat, he is reported to be fully seized with the finalisation of the broad-based agreement and that a fully functional government focused on dealing with the economic problems should be in place sometime next month," the sources said.
"The President has had enough of games from the opposition and he made this quite clear in his meeting with MDC leader Professor Arthur Mutambara. They agreed that a government should be put in place sooner rather than later," the sources said.
The sources said in Saturday's meeting, the two sides discussed MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's letter to President Mugabe in which he said he was not prepared to take up the post of prime minister.
Source:Xinhua
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