Mbeki visits Zimbabwe

Mbeki, the Southern African Development Community (SADC)'s mediator on Zimbabwe, earlier this week dispatched senior aide Sydney Mufamadi to meet political players in Zimbabwe over violence that has broken out across the country since March 29 polls won by the opposition.

"He is coming to meet Mugabe and the opposition to discuss the violence and to try to see if there could be a kind of a way forward," said one diplomat, who spoke on condition he was not named.