"Fooled ya! Fooled ya! Nyah!"
President Thabo Mbeki has denied telling his United States counterpart George W Bush that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe would step down in December. "There is no such thing. I don’t know where that comes from," he told reporters in Pretoria yesterday. "There was no discussion at all about anybody stepping down."
"Nope. Nope. Never said it." | Weekend reports, quoting unnamed diplomatic sources, suggested Mbeki told Bush during his recent South African visit that Mugabe would be out of office by December.
Ah! That's different from saying he's gonna step down... | Mugabe reportedly gave Mbeki an undertaking that he would step down at his Zanu PF party’s congress at the end of the year. |