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Briefing paper to the Zuma facilitation team
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
October 20, 2010

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Our Thanks and Acknowledgements

The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (The Coalition) greatly appreciates the opportunity to engage with President Jacob Zuma's Facilitation Team. The Coalition acknowledges and appreciates, the sterling work and commitment that President Zuma and his Facilitation Team have put into executing their mandate to find a lasting solution to the challenges in Zimbabwe. It is hoped that this engagement is the first of many such meetings through which civil society in Zimbabwe can formally and meaningfully contribute to ongoing efforts to sustainably resolve Zimbabwe's multi-faceted challenge.

Two years have passed since the official signing, on 15 September 2008, of the SADC- guaranteed and mediated Global Political Agreement (GPA), which led the formation of the Inclusive Government of Zimbabwe. The Inclusive Government is aimed at 'resolving once and for all the current political and economic situations and charting a new political direction for the country.'

Report to the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation by His Excellency, President Jacob Zuma

The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition noted the report by President Zuma to the Troika Summit of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence, and Security Cooperation on the Zimbabwe negotiation process, which he delivered on 15 August 2010 in Namibia. While we concur that the Inclusive government has brought about a modicum of peace, stability and positive progress with regards to economic stability, the Coalition remains extremely concerned that the same cannot be said for meaningful legislative and institutional reforms which are critical to a successful transition to a more democratic dispensation, and also that the highlighted positives may not be sustainable because of the former. Zimbabwe has not yet fully emerged from political conflict, and, as the following update to the Facilitation Team highlights, there are no guarantees that Zimbabwe will

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