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Zimbabwe's President Mugabe exchanges documents with opposition leader Tsvangirai after signing a power-sharing deal in Harare. Photo/REUTERS  

By KITSEPILE NYATHI, NATION Correspondent, HARARE
Posted  Monday, September 15  2008 at  20:03

In the streets of Harare, crowds gathered at shops that had television sets to witness the ceremony broadcast live.

The ruling Zanu PF’s lost its parliamentary majority for the first time to the MDC and President Mugabe also came second in a field of four candidates behind Mr Tsvangirai in presidential race.

However, the opposition leader was forced to withdraw from the presidential run-off following systematic violence against his supporters, leaving Mr Mugabe to run alone.

Despite claiming a landslide, the 84 year-old leader’s victory was rejected by the majority of African leaders who backed Mr Mbeki’s mediation.

The talks that began in July and were originally slated for two weeks dragged on because of a disagreement between Mr Mugabe and Mr Tsvangirai on how to share executive powers.

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Add a comment (4 comments so far)

  1. Submitted by Fashangabo

    Tsvangirai is the only quiter that I have seen win if he thinks he has. After his supporters lost their lives, he cowardly quited leaving his vessel to sink. Though I dont support Mugabe's selfishness undemocratic poor leadership, his PM can still quit if given power living the country to sink deeper. Power sharing is the in-thing to encourage rigging.African countries should wake up and say no to this ignorance

    Posted  September 17, 2008 01:14 AM  
  2. Submitted by zait

    First,it was democracy,in just a decade,its already outdated,now we come in "sharing power". It just sound fantastic till it is outdated after a very short decade.

    Posted  September 16, 2008 09:45 PM  
  3. Submitted by Katiba04

    Thanks for Mwai Kibaki for giving Mugabe the idea.

    Posted  September 16, 2008 08:20 AM  
  4. Submitted by joxieq

    This is selfishness in the name of saving the country,its just for their own benefit,the common citizen is not catered for anywhere,its really a bad show of democracy and i dont think in future there will be any african leader who will be ousted through voting,after all they willbe sharing power with the winners,bad trend initiated by Kenya.joseph suyianka

    Posted  September 16, 2008 08:12 AM