South Africa is hopeful that Zimbabwe's unity government is on track to focus on reconstruction, Foreign Affairs Director General Ayanda Ntsaluba said on Thursday.

Briefing the media in Pretoria, Ntsaluba said a Zimbabwean delegation led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai would meet with President Kgalema Motlanthe in Cape Town on Friday to discuss the reconstruction of the country.

"This meeting is against the backdrop of the successful achievements [which are] to a large extent, towards the implementation of the roadmap that was agreed upon [in January]," Ntsaluba said.

"We are hoping that the current unity arrangements of the unity government will withstand the many trials it is quite clearly going to face and the many difficulties that are going lie ahead," said
Ntsaluba.

The country currently faces an economic and humanitarian crisis. Ntsaluba, who visited Zimbabwe earlier this week, said there was a "sense" that progress was being made to address the problems of the country.

"I think we will just continue keeping an eye to the view to lending whatever support [is needed]."

He said he hoped that the arrests of top Movement for Democratic Change officials would not "derail" the good progress that had been made.

He said during his meeting, the country's leaders had acknowledged that there were problems but that were "were being attended to".

"That for us is enough. We are hoping that we will get an outcome that does not derail the process."

Tsvangirai's delegation would include Finance Minister Tendai Biti and Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengenwi.

Motlanthe would be flanked by South Africa's counterpart Trevor Manuel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.