Thabo Mbeki shuns SADC summit in Swaziland
Posted by African Press International on June 26, 2008
South African President Thabo Mbeki would not be joining a Southern African Development Community meeting on Zimbabwe reported to be taking place in Swaziland on Wednesday after a three-day similar gathering in Angola.
\”We are at home the whole day. The president is not going,\” his spokesperson Mukoni Ratshitanga said on Wednesday, adding, \”We have never received an invitation to attend the meeting. Of course, you would need an invitation to attend a meeting of an organ that you are not a member of.\”
The South Africa Broadcasting Corporation reported early Wednesday that following the Angola summit, Swaziland would host a meeting to discuss the crisis in Zimbabwe.
Ratshitanga said Mbeki would be in Cape Town on Wednesday and as far as he knew, the president had no scheduled meetings with representatives of Zimbabwe\s ruling Zanu-PF party or the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
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