Mugabe skips Sadc troika

President Robert Mugabe yesterday reportedly failed to attend the Sadc double troika extraordinary summit in Botswana as he is still on holiday in the Far East.

Instead, Mugabe sent Foreign Affairs minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi to represent him at the double troika where other Heads of State and Government from Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Tanzania met to discuss the deepening political crisis in Lesotho and other regional hot spots.

Mugabe is an automatic member of the troika by virtue of his being Sadc former chairperson, while South Africa is participating in the summit in its capacity as the outgoing chairperson of the Sadc Organ on Politics Defence and Security Co-operation.