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The meetings had stopped in recent few weeks after MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai boycotted them.

He was protesting President Mugabe’s constitutional re-appointment of provincial governors and re-assignment of serving ambassadors.

President Zuma flew into Harare Friday afternoon in his capacity as the Sadc-appointed facilitator among Zimbabwe’s main political parties and as a member of the Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security.

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The regional bloc asked him to come after the Troika, chaired by President Rupiah Banda of Zambia and deputised by President Armando Guebuza of Mozambique, failed to meet in Botswana last weekend.

Addressing journalists after meeting President Mugabe, Mr Tsvangirai and MDC leader Professor Arthur Mutambara, President Zuma said: “We noted that there was communication breakdown in Government and we have resolved that the (Monday) meetings are going to resume and we are happy about that.”
President Zuma said his visit was a follow-up to a brief meeting he had with the principals in Botswana.

The meeting was held against the backdrop of disagreements over the implementation of the GPA.
MDC-T wrote to Sadc, the European Union and the United Nations complaining about the re-appointment of provincial governors and re-assignment of serving ambassadors.

However, the principals had agreed that the appointment of new governors would run concurrently with the lifting of illegal sanctions.