By Stella Mapenzauswa Reuters -
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Southern African leaders began a two-day regional summit on Saturday at which Zimbabwe's political rivals were expected to resume power-sharing talks to try to end the country's political crisis.
"There is one focus and it is that this matter must be resolved," South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said of Zimbabwe ahead of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) meeting in Johannesburg.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, mandated to mediate an end to post-election turmoil in Zimbabwe, met participants in the talks on Friday. President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF said talks would continue at the two-day summit of regional leaders.
Mbeki, who has come under criticism at home and abroad for not taking a tough line with Mugabe, did not mention Zimbabwe in his opening speech to the summit where the Zimbabwean president sat on the stage with other Southern African leaders.
The leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai, was present, sitting in an observers' gallery. For further details please click here
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