Since 2011, Marius Fransman, the South African deputy minister has been taking the mediation into the Malagasy crisis settlement process over, although President Jacob Zuma’s special envoy is equally no longer in the best possible terms with some of the Marc Ravalomanana sphere’s members, who accuse him of getting too close to the Rajoelina sphere. Apart from this mission of Leonardo Simao, the Malagasy crisis settlement process related meeting of the SADC’s Troika was recently postponed as well.