22 Sep 2008: ISS Seminar, Pretoria: Zimbabwe Settlement

ISS Seminar: Zimbabwe Settlement
Pretoria, 22 September 2008

 

Presented by the African Security Analysis Programme

 

On Monday, 15 September 2008, the protagonists in Zimbabwe’s protracted negotiations signed a historic power-sharing agreement that marked an end to the political quagmire that has embroiled the country for almost a decade.  The key component of this deal, brokered by South African President Thabo Mbeki, is a government of national unity with shared executive powers between President Mugabe and Prime Minister-designate, Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the main opposition faction of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

 

The aim of this seminar is to analyze this deal and its prospects for survival in the two-year interim period. Comparisons will be drawn with Kenya’s post-election dispensation. Of import will not only be the actual arrangements emanating from this negotiation process, but also the processes of mediation that preceded them. Lastly, the seminar will project what the future holds for Zimbabwe.

 

Chair: Dr Paul-Simon Handy, Head, African Security Analysis Programme, ISS

 

Speakers:

  • Judy Smith-Höhn (ISS): An analysis of the power-sharing agreement

  • Dr Wafula Okumu (ISS): A comparison of the Zimbabwe and Kenyan post electoral agreements

  • Issaka Souaré (ISS): Lessons learnt from Mbeki’s mediation

  • Dr Cheryl Hendricks (ISS): Reconstructing Zimbabwe: The priorities of the government of national unity

 

 

Time: 11h00  - 13h00 (a finger lunch will be served)

Venue: ISS Office, Block C, Brooklyn Court, Veale Street, New Muckleneuk, Tshwane
(Parking at ABSA Court and Brooklyn Mall)

 

RSVP: Ms Maria Maluleke, Tel: (012) 346 9500; Fax: (012) 460 0997; Email: [email protected]

 

Seminar Documentation