South Africa’s foreign minister on Friday criticised the media in this country for presenting Zimbabwe in a bad light, after holding talks with the country’s President Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean state radio said.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma briefed Mugabe on developments in South Africa, and Mugabe briefed her on developments in Zimbabwe, the radio reported.
Dlamini-Zuma told reporters after her meeting with Mugabe that the South African media was ”very negative” and had ”failed to paint a balanced picture of events both in Zimbabwe and South Africa,” the radio added.
The minister, who met with her Zimbabwean counterpart Stan Mudenge after her arrival in the country late on Thursday, is due to return to South Africa on Saturday, after visiting tourist sites in the country.
On Thursday a statement from the South African foreign affairs ministry said Dlamini-Zuma’s talks would focus on resumption of negotiations between Mugabe’s ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Talks between the two rivals were suspended earlier this year after the MDC mounted a court challenge to Mugabe’s victory in a disputed presidential poll.
For more than two years, political tension between the MDC and Zanu-PF has seen scores of mainly opposition supporters killed, according to human rights groups. – Sapa-AFP