South Africa backs Mbeki as Zimbabwe mediator
South Africa’s new leader Thursday backed former president Thabo Mbeki as the mediator in Zimbabwe, saying he would revive a stalled key power-sharing deal he brokered last month. “Our government has full confidence in Mr Mbeki’s ability to build on the historic successes already made in the power-sharing negotiations under his mediation,” President Kgalema Motlanthe said in a statement. (Full Story)