South African President Jacob Zuma, rebuffed by Britain in his call to end to sanctions on Zimbabwe, said Friday he had put his point across about the need to resolve the crisis in the struggling country.

Winding up a state visit to Britain, Zuma said he wanted to move forward as quickly as possible on Zimbabwe and expected to visit to his neighbour very shortly as part of South Africa's efforts to broker an end to the crisis.

Zuma said at the start of his trip to London this week that he wanted an end to sanctions against Zimbabwe, but Britain said it wanted to see more progress on human rights and democracy before the European Union lifts the measures targeted against President Robert Mugabe and his allies.

"I think we have put our point across," Zuma told reporters Friday. "I think everybody has been saying they need to think about what was said so that we can have a resolution of the Zimbabwe problem."

"With regard to South Africa this issue is not just a theoretical issue. It is an issue that impacts on South Africa," Zuma said.

As the Zimbabwean economy has collapsed, 3 million Zimbabweans have fled across the border into South Africa, placing that country's social infrastructure under severe strain.

Mugabe and his old rival Morgan Tsvangirai formed a unity government in Zimbabwe last year.

Despite persistent friction between the two leaders, they have agreed on commissions to drive media, electoral and human rights reforms.

"I am convinced that the establishment of those three commissions has given a new indication to the Western world that the Zimbabwean issue i

s moving forward," Zuma said.

"What therefore we need is a response to that -- that here is a process moving forward," Zuma said. "We want to move forward as quickly as possible."

Prime Minister Gordon Brown told Zuma Thursday that the EU's sanctions did not target Zimbabwe or Zimbabweans but "individuals who are responsible for violence and a number of businesses linked to them."