A SOUTH African Airlink plane, carrying Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Tuesday, was forced to turn back to Johannesburg after experiencing a technical fault on its way to the Zimbabwean capital, Harare.
Officials in the prime minister’s office said the plane had just entered Zimbabwean air space when the fault was detected.
Tsvangirai touched down safely in Johannesburg shortly after 8am and caught a later plane.
On Wednesday last week a SA Airlink plane skidded off the runway at Port Elizabeth Airport in South Africa.
Passengers said they heard a loud bang moments before take-off and then the plane skidded onto the grass.
The aircraft was en route to East London - a surburb in the country. None of the 29 passengers and crew was injured. The runway was temporarily closed because of the accident.
The prime minister was returning from a five day state visit to Morocco and Libya.
On Monday, he held talks with current AU Chairman President Colonel Muammar Gadhafi, a close ally of President Robert Mugabe.
Tsvangirai is due to attend a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday with President Mugabe.
TALKS RESUME
Meanwhile, the three parties in Zimbabwe's Global Political Agreement on Monday started negotiations to iron out differences which have created deep chasms within the country's inclusive Government, in line with a Sadc resolution passed in Maputo, Mozambique on Nov. 5.
Negotiations went well into the evening, with none of the chief negotiators shedding light on what was going on behind doors.
There is an agreement that the media should not have a blow by blow account of the discussions, as this would be tantamount to negotiating in public.
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF is represented by Patrick Chinamasa and Nicholas Goche, while Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T is represented by Tendai Biti and Elton Mangoma.
Welshman Ncube and Priscillah Misihairabwi-Mushonga represent Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara's smaller MDC faction.
Talks had been scheduled to begin by Nov. 20 as per the resolution of the summit of the Sadc troika on politics, defense and security that they should start within 15 days, but the negotiators failed to achieve this, citing other pressing government commitments.
The troika was flexible, however, giving room that negotiations should not start later than 30 days from the date of the resolution.
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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:20:27 • N/A - UnAfrican, so you think it is good for the goon political party and its preachers of hate, yes, literally speaking, preachers of hate such as the adulterous Pius Ncube and the dwarf South African Two-two to pray for the death of our President? So it is good if the MDC-T stupid party and its superflous foreign contigent and local hangers-on such as your poor self wish for the death of our President and you still see nothing wrong with that? I have said it before on this site, your lot has had its brain turn to liquid and it has left a void where it ought to have been hence all these hallucinations and puerile putrid and very toxic attempt at moral uprightness that feigns offence! You are just an obnoxious political lot and should be told in no uncertain terms that what is good for the goose is equally good for the gander. Therefore the moron (Chematama Ichi) must be wished death as he has caused that on many a Zimbabwean's life and since he is not African but white with a black pock-marked fat ugly-face this unAfrican wish is one which he deserves seeing that that is what his fellow white kith and kin do to us blacks. As for you, you are just an imbecile who has drunk from the same tainted cup of treachery as your master Tsvangison. Another thing, Ed, let the big dogs bite these little Chihuahuas that are masquerading as bulldogs when they are just a bunch of nothings whose sound and fury signifies nothing!
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:33:07 • Are you sure that MDC-T has not yet tried to implicate Zanu-PF?
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:12:16 • Freedom of speech yes, but it comes with responsibility. You cannot celebrate the death of your PM's wife and then wish him dead, hazvina hunhu, ndohunonzi humbwa chaihwo. Even Pres Mugabe, the PM's political rival has never expressed such un African views!
Editor, please batai imbwa dzenyu!!
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:28:07 • The accident that killed his wife missed him, and this plane thingy also missed him, next time God will definitely get him, he can't miss all the time with his anointed bows and arrows! Chokwadi celebrations for the end of life for this wastrel can never be faraway! This goon has made us suffer so much so that he should die a painful death, like, erm, a plane crash in which his sellout body is burnt to cinder and nothing can be recovered from there. Sorry about those who think boarding the same plane with Tsvangison is something to be celebrated, you will only go with him seeing that this lame-brain has already killed thousands of our people and his come-uppance is nigh. So be warned : if the goon boards the same plane as you, protest loudly and see him off the plane as he brings with him bad luck and the avenging spirits of those of our loved ones who are demanding revenge. The goon's handlers should always charter a plane for him so that his impending demise can consume only those other meat-heads as Maridadi and Gorden Moyo who are all as guilty as this evil political miscreant!
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:07:51 • Mati ndege yaiva naTwangson yakaita emergency landing? Kupi? Iye akapona here? Saka ari kupi zvatiti kutaura kudai? He has been taken in for post traumatic observation and treatment in Botswana, I understand. if was Air Zim?! Imagine! Makumbe would be calling on 'international' experts to conduct a transparent commission of inquiry, monitored and supervised by the United Nations.
Chamisa would blame everyone but the accident itself, yes the accident.
Mbiti would scream attempted targetted murder.
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