Roy Bennett with Morgan Tsvangirai in April 2008. Photograph: Jon Hrusa/EPAIs Mugabe Sabotaging Zimbabwe's Coalition Government? -- Christian Science Monitor
Opposition MPs have recently been jailed, including Deputy Agriculture Minister Roy Bennett, who was arrested on charges of 'banditry and terrorism.' Critics say the charges are 'trumped up.'
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - The first weeks of Zimbabwe's coalition government – a power-sharing agreement where power is unequally shared – have not gone well.
True, Morgan Tsvangirai, the country's new prime minister and President Robert Mugabe's sworn enemy, recently had a successful visit to South Africa, laying out a $5 billion plan to reconstruct Zimbabwe. But members of Mr. Tsvangirai's own party remain in jail, including Deputy Agriculture Minister Roy Bennett, who was arrested on charges of "banditry and terrorism."
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