But Zimbabwe’s in the chair.

It clear even before the leaders gather for their deliberations that hosts are not calling the shots.

South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation invited journalists to the opening of the African Foreign Ministers retreat in Sandton today.

But Zimbabwe’s foreign affairs chief Samuel Mumbengegwi was clearly having none of it.

Embarrassed South African and African Union officials had to herd the media out of the meeting he presided over.

Two days ago, media were invited to report on the opening of the ambassadors’meeting Pretoria.

The Zimbabwe envoy took the chair there and reporters were kept out.

President Robert Mugabe, who was elected chair of the African Union summit for the year of 2015, will be the man in charge when heads of state gather on Sunday.

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