Zanu-PF boycotts Zuma envoy

Zanu-PF last night boycotted a meeting with South African President Jacob Zuma's facilitation team.

Zanu-PF spokesperson Rugare Gumbo declined to comment on his party's position in relation to the visiting team, referring this reporter to Presidential spokesperson George Charamba and the Foreign Affairs ministry.

The party's representatives in the Global Political Agreement (GPA) negotiations - which the South Africans are in Zimbabwe for - are Nicholas Goche and Patrick Chinamasa.

Efforts to contact both of them were fruitless as, although their phones were ringing, they were not being picked up.

Speaking before the facilitation team left South Africa yesterday, team spokesperson Lindiwe Zulu, who did not travel with the team, said their mission was to continue discussions on the electoral roadmap.

Senior Zanu-PF officials are on record saying there would be no electoral, security, media or other reforms despite these being clearly stipulated in the GPA.

The party described negotiations over these as "a closed door", "nonsensical" and that they would never be done.