zimbabwe: MDC could restart talks after Mbeki gesture

Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has given the green light for re-opening stalled talks with President Robert Mugabe's government following a gesture by South African President Thabo Mbeki welcoming the Movement for Democratic Change leader's apparent change of heart. In the most upbeat remarks he has made on Zimbabwe in many months, Mbeki made a dramatic and impassioned plea on Wednesday for Mugabe and Tsvangirai to resume talks aimed at thrashing out their differences over Zimbabwe's future.