The Southern African Development Community (Sadc) has seconded three representatives to work with the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (Jomic) to ensure the inclusive government parties’ compliance with provisions of the Global Political Agreement.
Political counsellor at the South African Embassy in Zimbabwe, Andy Makwabe, said two of the representatives, Ambassador David Katye (Tanzania) and Colly Muunyu (Zambia), arrived in Harare on Monday to meet the South African facilitation team in the Zimbabwe political crisis.
President Jacob Zuma’s facilitation team was also in the country to meet party negotiators from the three political parties that form the inclusive government. The team is made up of Mac Maharaj, Charles Nqakula and South African Ambassador to Zimbabwe Vusi Mavimbela.
“The two (Katye and Muunyu) were here on Monday and will be here again to meet the facilitation team and the negotiators on June 25. The third one will come from South Africa, but we don’t have the name yet,” Makwabe said.
The team, Makwabe said, which is still to be formally introduced to the Jomic team, would work with Zuma’s facilitation team. MDC-T representative in Jomic Thabita Khumalo said the coming of the team was long overdue.
“We just heard they came and even in Luanda, President Zuma mentioned it. They had not been presented to us,” Khumalo said yesterday. The decision by Sadc to deploy its team to work with Jomic was reached at last year’s Sadc Troika summit in Livingstone, Zambia.
