Zimbabwe to form new government: Mugabe

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HARARE, Aug 27 (AFP): Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe says he will form a new government, despite a deadlock in the country's power-sharing negotiations with the opposition, a state daily said Wednesday.

"We shall soon be setting up a government," Mugabe was quoted as saying in the Herald newspaper following the opening of parliament Tuesday at which he was booed and heckled by opposition lawmakers.

"The MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) does not want to come in apparently. This time they have been promised by the British that sanctions would be more devastating, that in six months' time the government will collapse."

"I do not know when that day will come. I wish (MDC leader Morgan) Tsvangirai well on that day," the 84-year-old leader added.

Mugabe castigated his past cabinet and said he would appoint ministers who are dedicated to working for the country. "This cabinet that I had was the worst in history," he said.