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Mugabe adamant to form government without MDC

                                        By Blessed Chapwati 26-08-08

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is to form a new government soon without the main opposition, which he says, has been reluctant to sign a powersharing agreement, but will leave room incase they decide otherwise.

Mugabe was speaking to ZANU PF legislators at a post parliament-opening luncheon boycotted by MDC legislators on Tuesday.

The state broadsheet on Wednesday quoted him saying: "We shall soon be setting up a Government. The MDC does not want to come in apparently. This time they have been promised by the British that sanctions would be more devastating, that in six months' time the Government will collapse," he said.

"I do not know when that day will come. I wish Tsvangirai well on that day," he said.

The appointment of a cabinet is most likely to be done despite the MOU signed on the 21^st of July. Article 9 of the MOU discourages the formation of a government by a single party before the conclusion of the current negotiations being brokered by South African President Thabo Mbeki.

Mugabe who was heckled by MDC parliamentarians during the official of opening of the 7th parliament lambasted his outgoing cabinet and said Cabinet ministers who own businesses should employ other people to manage their business while they attend to policy making.

Opposition MPs refused to acknowledge Mugabe as president when he entered the house, and chose to boo him and singing throughout his speech.

"This Cabinet that I had was the worst in history. They look at themselves. They are unreliable, but not all of them," Mugabe said.

His disgruntlement has since been displayed by a show of no confidence in some ministers who have been appointed as provincial governors.

Mugabe's cabinet has been a major burden to the fiscus, where several ministers have grown into fat cats who are benefitting at the expense of ordinary people.