Harare - South African President Thabo Mbeki was due to meet Wednesday with his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe and the leader of a breakaway faction of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change after meeting Tuesday with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai in a bid to restart stalled talks.

Mbeki's spokesman Mukoni Ratshitanga confirmed that Mbeki would be travelling later to Harare to meet with Mugabe and MDC faction leader, Arthur Mutambara.

Asked why he would not be meeting with Tsvangirai, Ratshitanga told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa: "He met yesterday with Morgan Tsvangirai and his negotiators in Pretoria."

Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was in South Africa Tuesday for talks with negotiators from his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on the suspension of talks with President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF.

Tsvangirai's spokesman George Sibotshiwe confirmed that the MDC leader was in South Africa, where multi-party talks on the formation of a unity government have been taking place under South African mediation.

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