ZIMBABWE Christian leaders have called on parties to continue power-sharing talks in order to shun partisan interests and help break the impasse that is holding back the conclusion of the all-party talks mediated by South African president, Thabo Mbeki.
"As the Church, we urge the political parties to take national issues seriously and avoid advancing selfish partisan interests," Goodwill Shana, chairperson of the Heads of Christian Denominations group said.
"We are losing time; we need to move forward and break the impasse," said Shana.
President Mbeki is the Southern African Development Community mandated mediator.
The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference has welcomed the talks in South Africa, although the bishops said the process should be more inclusive in order for it to gain legitimacy.
They called on the negotiating parties not to rush into an all-inclusive government but to urgently dismantle instruments of violence, reject impunity, and usher in a new political culture in which accountability, inclusiveness, transparency, healing and reconciliation are paramount.
The bishops also urged the negotiators to act with urgency given the economic situation in Zimbabwe.
"We urge negotiators to recognize the urgency of economic priorities," the Catholic bishops said in a statement reacting to the earlier signing of a memorandum of agreement on 21 July between the three parties.
"They will need to create an environment in which production can begin to take place and economic stability established. We will continue to pray for God's grace, and to encourage all citizens to pray for the process that has begun so that … all people are reconciled and become one."
n/a • n/a Subject: n/a Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:04:41 • For starters the church should impress upon its brothers and sisters in the divided and gay tolerant and ungodly Anglican Church to run to their fellow ungodly members in SA (Tutu), Uganda (Sentamu) and the great evil himself the archbishop of canterbury to urge for the removal of sanctions on Zim. Otherwise there is no need for them to call for the continuation of nonsensical talks which have now been superceeded by events, especially so, when one of the so-called negotiators is a puppet whose strings are being pulled by masters said above people in that church serve! You cannot ask Zanu(PF) and our Dear Leader to continue bending backwards to the point of embarrassing himself when all and sundry know that MT is just not himself in these talks! The man is not the real deal and hence nothing constructive, nothing fruitful can ever come from him. We are now so used to the sanctions so much so that we now think this is how it is hence their continuation or removal is no longer a point of urgency. What we need is our continued and never ending independence and sovereignty. The rest will gradually fall in place. Mao predicted that China will one day become great again and laid the building blocks for that even though the evil West repeatedly and scornfully castigated them and he did not live to enjoy this resurrection. But now look at them! They hosted the best ever Olympiad in the history of the game which even the scornful Brits will never emulate no matter how hard they try! So for us lets keep our independence first and maybe our future generations will enjoy the fruits of an independent self assertive and economically stable Zim. PAMBERI - MBERI NAMUGABE!
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