Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether he had discussions he with his South African counterpart on Emmerson Mnangagwa in the weeks after then Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was placed under house arrest.

The Foreign Secretary discussed a range of subjects, including Zimbabwe, with his South African counterpart, Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, during the European Union – African Union Summit on 29/30 November. Throughout this period, our High Commission staff have regularly discussed the situation in Zimbabwe with the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation.