Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has challenged President Robert Mugabe to hold a new election if he is not prepared to share his powers. Right. He's sure to go for that.
Mr Tsvangirai said he would withdraw from power-sharing talks if a satisfactory deal could not be reached.
There's no intention on Bob's part for a satisfactory deal to be reached. The whole idea is to make MDC withdraw from the talks, thereby leaving Bob in undisturbed power.
Mr Mugabe has said he will form a government without the MDC if they do not agree to a power-sharing deal being mediated by South Africa's president. "The issue that we are facing here is that Mugabe must accept to surrender some of his powers for the power-sharing arrangement to work," Mr Tsvangirai told a Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) rally in Gweru, in central Zimbabwe.