Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe addresses mourners during the burial of National Hero, Gordon Tapson Sibanda at National Heroes Acre in Harare, Zimbabwe December 23, 2008. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)From Yahoo News/Reuters:
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is expected to form a new government by the end of February despite stalled talks with the main opposition party, the state-run Herald newspaper said Monday.
The veteran leader, who started a month-long holiday this week, began preparations for a new administration last week when he fired nine ministers and three deputies who lost seats in last year's parliamentary election.
The move was seen as the clearest sign yet he had lost patience with talks on forming a power-sharing government with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
The Herald said a senior ruling ZANU-PF party official, Nicholas Goche, met Sydney Mufamadi, the representative for mediator Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's former president, on Saturday to discuss ways of ending the impasse.
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