"Nothing is going to stop us from forming a new government," Bright Matonga told South African public broadcaster SAFM, disregarding warnings by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change that doing so would scupper the talks.
"We need to move forward; we need to make sure that Zimbabwe regains its status; we need to work on the economy. People are suffering.
"That is the mandate that he (Mugabe) was given by the SADC (Southern African Development Community regional bloc) and he is not going to stop forming that new cabinet. The MDC are not serious at all."
Matonga was responding to a statement by MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti that Mugabe would be violating a recent agreement between the ruling ZANU-PF party and the opposition, as well as jeopardising power-sharing negotiations, if he unilaterally formed a government, http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/theworld/>The Australian reports.
The talks on creating a unity government to end a ruinous political crisis were suspended a little over two weeks ago.
"You will be killing the talks. Once you form a government, forget about talks. It is a disaster and an act of insanity to think that Mugabe can go it alone" Mr Biti said.
"Formally, we are going to write a letter to the facilitator (South African President Thabo Mbeki) about the breaches that have occurred," he said, referring to an Mbeki-mediated agreement of July 21 signed by the ruling party, the main MDC and its breakaway faction.
Zimbabwe's new parliament opened this week, five months after contested elections in which Mugabe's party lost legislative majority for the first time since the country's independence from Britain in 1980, when Mugabe came to power.
Read more on this story at http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/theworld/>The Australian.
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