South Africa has reported a major improvement in relations between Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
”There is a light at the end of the tunnel and it is showing,” Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota told reporters in Pretoria on Wednesday.
”The greatest achievement — something we are very happy about — is the fact that there is major improvement in relations between the two parties.”
The current atmosphere should have been there a year ago, Lekota said.
”If it could have been there a year ago… I am sure we would have been far ahead by now.”
South Africa remained anxious that talks between the two parties should proceed as soon as possible to resolve the political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe.
”It should be resolved in time to present the Zimbabweans with the best possible conditions to work themselves out of the difficult situation now with them.”
Lekota added: ”The parties in Zimbabwe are confronting their ssues, and there is an observable improvement of interaction between the ruling party and the opposition.” – Sapa