Carter Urges Full Implementation of Power-Sharing Pact

By Benedict Nhlapho & Ntungamili Nkomo

Former US President Jimmy Carter called Zimbabwe “a tragedy still waiting to be resolved,” but cautioned that it would be premature for the country to try to organise new elections until a number of measures have been taken.

Following a meeting in South Africa, the group of Elders voiced their great concern on Monday at the slow pace of implementation of the Global Political Agreement for Zimbabwean power sharing more than a year after the formation of the chronically troubled national unity government in Harare.

Struggle icon and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu said the Elders were disappointed that the Harare political accord underpinning a government including President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF and the Movement for Democratic Change of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has not relieved the country’s impoverished masses.

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