South African President Jacob Zuma ended his two-day visit to the violence-stricken and economic disaster Zimbabwe on Friday.
Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change leader and current Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai welcomed the South African President's visit by stating Zuma's visit as 'refreshing' and 'unequivocal,' according to
Bloomberg News.
Zuma visited the three leaders of Zimbabwe; Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, President Robert Mugabe and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara in separate meetings.
Details of the meetings have not yet been released but the Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front have accused the MDC of not being successful in lifting sanctions that were put in place by western nations against Pres. Mugabe's alleged tyrannical policies put forth. Such sanctions include, Mugabe and party officials are banned from travelling to other nations.
In February this year, South Africa help put in place a power-sharing deal between MDC and ZANU-PF however, the MDC have accused Mugabe and his party of not implementing the arrangement.
June of this year, however, has shown both men do have the urge to have an
economic revival of the former commodity-rich nation. Tsvangirai went on an economic tour and met with United States officials Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama. The United States have pledged giving Zimbabwe $73 million.
Pres. Mugabe held a summit of western and eastern African nations looking for investors and donors to give the impoverished country.