President Mugabe has warned that if Tsvangirai of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) does not sign the power-sharing agreement on Thursday, he will proceed to name cabinet ministers, according to the Herald.
Mugabe made the remarks to the press while leaving Lusaka for Harare after attending the burial ceremony of late Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa on Wednesday.
The president said the opposition leader was being compromised by the British government.
"We know that it is the British government behind it. It is the British government, which does not want an agreement, and as long as they do not want it, he (Tsvantirai) will not sign." Mugabe was quoted by the Herald as saying.
"They want the sanctions to continue to punish us into an agreement with them. It is the land question, and all this talk about democracy is nonsense," Mugabe said.
The president said this is a government born out of elections with a mandate to serve the people.
"We are a government, and we are a government that is empowered by elections. So we should form a cabinet. We will not allow a situation where we will not have a cabinet forever," Mugabe was quoted.
"If after tomorrow (Thursday) Tsvangirai does not want to sign, we will certainly put together a cabinet . We feel frozen at the moment," he said.
Zimbabwe has not had a new cabinet since the presidential run-off elections on June 27 this year.
The Zimbabwe ruling and the opposition have not worked out a power-sharing deal yet after weeks of talks which is mediated by South African President Thabo Mbeki, who is approved as a mediator by the South African Development Community.
Mugabe has said at the opening of Parliament that "We shall soon be setting up a government."
"The MDC does not want to come in apparently," Mugabe said
The president said he was going to appoint cabinet ministers who can manage the business of the people.
"I need managers. I want workers -- people who take people to work. I do not want people with own business. I want one business -- the people's business," the Herald quoted Mugabe as saying.
"Let's us be united. Let's not be destroyers of our party. We have destroyed part of it. Now that we have survived. Let's ensure the party is strengthened," Mugabe said.
The Herald also reported on Thursday that South African President Thabo Mbeki, who has been mediating the Zimbabwe inter-party talks, is expected in Harare on Thursday to get Tsvangirai to append his signature to the agreement for the last time.
Zimbabwean President and ruling ZANU-PF candidate Mugabe won a landslide victory in the presidential run-off election on June 27.
The Zimbabwe election committee said official results showed that Mugabe, 84, won 85.5 percent of the votes in the election against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's 9.3 percent, defeating Tsvangirai by a huge margin.
Zimbabwe held the presidential run-off as scheduled despite opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai's withdrawal from the race.Tsvangirai withdrew from the election citing various reasons, including political violence.
Tsvangirai received 47.9 percent of the votes in the first round of election held on March 29, followed by President Robert Mugabe's 43.2 percent.
An outright winner needs to obtain an absolute majority of the votes, otherwise a run-off needs to be held, according to Zimbabwe's law.
