Johannesburg - South Africa will host talks on resolving Zimbabwe's political impasse, reports said Thursday. 

High-ranking representatives of the ruling Zanu-PF party of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and the opposition Movement of Democratic Change (MDC) of Morgan Tsvangirai are planning to meet in South Africa's Pretoria, the Business Day newspaper reported. 

MDC second-in-command Tendai Biti, who was charged with treason in June, will also attend the talks. 

The High Court in Zimbabwe's capital Harare on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for Biti to travel abroad for the talks, ordering his passport be returned. 

The MDC, however, has said that the conditions for negotiations with Mugabe's Zanu-PF have not yet been met. 

South African President Thabo Mbeki is the official negotiator of the South African Development Community (SADC) in the Zimbabwe crisis. 

Violence caused Tsvangirai to pull out of a presidential run-off election on June 27, leaving Mugabe to win a controversial sixth term uncontested. (dpa)