"You will always get people in any arrangement who are guided by little emotional thoughts and act in accordance with them and who would want things to go their way, and not the national way, and not the agreed way," Mugabe was quoted as saying by the state-owned Herald newspaper yesterday.

Meanwhile, police raided a house belonging to Tsvangirai's party on Friday night, claiming they were searching for weapons, a top party official said yesterday.

"Last night armed police numbering over 50 raided this residence on the pretext that they were looking for arms stolen from the police or the army," Movement for Democratic Change secretary-general Tendai Biti told journalists.

"They ransacked every room and took a bunch of valuable party material from a room occupied by our organising secretary Morgan Komichi.

"They beat up the wife and sister of the caretaker before they started digging part of the garden, ostensibly in search of weapons."

Biti said the raid was the work of members of President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and security forces opposed to the country's power-sharing government.

"The decision we took last week and the efforts we are making in government to protect public funds all have to do with these acts of frustration."

Tsvangirai's former opposition MDC party said on October 16 they would no longer co-operate with the ruling Zanu-PF in protest against the renewed detention on terror charges of the prime minister's aide, Roy Bennett.

While the former opposition leader said he was not quitting the government, he vowed to return to the power-sharing deal only once outstanding disputes had been resolved - including a row over key posts and a continued crackdown on his supporters.

Mugabe and Tsvangirai, longtime political rivals, are set to hold talks tomorrow.

By The Times (SA)