Berlin/Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai said he would meet Friday in South Africa with former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan and ex-US president Jimmy Carter on the eve of their high-profile visit to Zimbabwe.

Tsvangirai confirmed the meeting during an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in Berlin Thursday.

Johannesburg  - A summit of Southern African leaders called Sunday for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his arch-rival, prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai, to share control of the contested Home Affairs Ministry.

The dispute over the key internal security agency has threatened to sink a power-sharing deal that had offered a way out of Zimbabwe's political stalemate.

Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai was shuttling between African capitals Friday in an attempt at winning the hearts and minds of regional leaders ahead of a crisis summit on Zimbabwe that finally promises some tough talking.

Harare - Zimbabwe's prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday said former South African president and mediator Thabo Mbeki had to show impartiality or the political power- sharing deal being negotiated would not materialize.

Addressing a Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) rally in a farming town of Marondera, about 70 kilometres east of Harare, Tsvangirai said: Mr Mbeki, there is only one message: when you have started a job finish it well."

Harare- Zimbabwe's prime minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday called on Zimbabwe's southern African neighbours and the African Union to intervene to end the deadlock in power-sharing talks between his and President Robert Mugabe's parties.

In a statement 24 days after Tsvangirai and Mugabe signed a deal to share power, Tsvangirai said, despite claims of progress by Mugabe's party, the two sides were still poles apart on the formation of a 31-ministry unity government.

Harare  - Zimbabwe's prime-minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai said Saturday there was an "urgent" need for the country to form a new government to prevent starvation amid worsening food insecurity in the troubled country.

Addressing journalists in Harare, Tsvangirai said: "We need to respond to this crisis with utmost urgency. It is therefore imperative that a government be formed in the next few days and begins to implement plans to ensure that our people have food and do not die of starvation."

He said the country's industry was operating at about 10 per cent of its capacity.