Mujuru Apologises To Zuma.

 

 

Harare, April 19, 2011 - The Zimbabwean government, through Vice President Joice Mujuru, has apologised to South African President Jacob Zuma for its

recent attacks on the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
recently.

Two weeks ago ZANU (PF) through its controversial prodigal son, Professor
Jonathan Moyo, attacked Zuma for announcing during a SADC Troika meeting
held last month in Livingstone Zambia that the regional bloc was going to
establish an election road map for Zimbabwe.

President Zuma is the SADC facilitator to Zimbabwe’s Global Political
Agreement, which formed the country’s coalition government.

Sources within the Foreign Affairs Ministry told Radio VOP that Vice
President Mujuru, last week visited the South African Embassy and
apologised.

“VP Mujuru after reprimanding Professor Jonathan Moyo personally met South
African diplomats at their Zimbabwean embassy and tried to extinguish the
fire. At the meeting she explained that Moyo’s utterances were not Zanu (PF)’s
position, but his (Moyo) opinion, “the source said.

Professor Johnathan Moyo had written in state-run Sunday Mail newspaper
blasting Zuma's proposed roadmap as a regime change tool.

In a full page hard-hitting opinion piece, Professor Moyo suggested Zuma
wanted to use the roadmap to overthrow Zimbabwe’s embattled President Robert
Mugabe in the same way the South African leader voted for last month’s UN
resolution that imposed a no-fly zone over Libya.

Since then President Mugabe has been trying to re-build relations with Zuma
by praising SADC for its facilitation initiative to the implementation of
the GPA.

At its conference in December last year, President Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) party
resolved not to move any step further, saying sanctions had to be removed
first.

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