MDC Leaders Have Travel Documents Confiscated, South African Trip Put on Hold

Morgan Tsvangirai and two senior officials within the Movement for Democratic Change party have had their travel documents confiscated, just days before they were schedule to meet with South African President Thabo Mbeki to continue talks regarding a power-sharing deal with the ruling ZANU-PF party.

The MDC members were at the Harare airport preparing to depart for Johannesburg when authorities seized their passports. MDC General Secretary Tendai Biti, one of the officials at the airport, was enraged by what he called a deliberate act by President Robert Mugabe to continue his efforts in suppressing the opposition.

Mbeki has been mediating talks between ZANU-PF and MDC leaders since Zimababe’s violent elections culminated in late June. Mugabe, who has held the presidential seat since the country’s independence in 1980, beat Tsvangirai in a run-off after the MDC leader dropped out of the race less than a week before the vote.

Tsvangirai had won the initial election in March but officials declared he had not secured a large enough majority to avoid a run-off. Tsvangirai claimed Mugabe had used violence to intimidate MDC supporters and has alleged that several hundred were killed and more than 150,000 forced to flee.

Initial talks between the two sides took place last month in South Africa and were resumed in Harare last weekend but neither side has been able to agree on a deal.

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