Biti courts African leaders

Opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti said he would soon embark on a diplomatic offensive, targeting African leaders to sensitise them on the Zimbabwean political and economic crisis and solicit for a lasting solution.

Biti said he would next week meet with Sadc chairman, Botswana President Ian Khama, in a diplomatic jaunt that would take his leadership to South Africa, Mozambique and Tanzania among other African countries.
 
meanwhile, MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he is open to forming a grand coalition with parties that had ha common cause as his.

Tsvangirai said this at his party's 16Th anniversary celebrations in Chivhu area.