"The president is very worried that the talks are moving too slowly," his spokesman Bheki Khumalo said.
Mbeki met leaders of Zimbabwean opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in Pretoria last weekend "to touch base and to discuss how to move the process forward a little bit faster," Khumalo said.
The president talked with general secretary Welshman Ncube, vice president Gibson Sibanda and other senior MDC leaders.
"He (Mbeki) invited them," Khumalo said, adding that the meeting went on for a "very long" time.
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai could not accompany Ncube and Sibanda as his passport was confiscated after he was charged with treason two years ago.
Zimbabwe plunged into turmoil in 2002 after President Robert Mugabe won the elections, which the MDC said was rigged.
Mbeki has been calling on Mugabe and Tsvangirai to meet to resolve the crisis in that country. The deadline to resolve the Zimbabwean crisis, which Mbeki set himself last year, lapsed on Wednesday. – Sapa.
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