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...year-old leader Robert Mugabe, though Mugabe told visiting South African officials that Tsvangirai has not been charged with treason. In a confusing legal skirmish, one court overturned a law that disenfranchised many Zimbabweans, including expatriates, only to have the law reinstated later by another court. Mugabe's ZANU-PF party said it would accept any outcome of the election...
...country fall? Zimbabweans may find out in 2002 as President Robert Mugabe continues his destructive campaign of intimidation and land grabs in an effort to hold onto power. The presidential election in March will turn the enmity between Mugabe's ruling zanu-pf party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change violent. Watch for arbitrary arrests of opposition supporters, journalists and anyone else not prepared to bow to Mugabe's dictatorial ways. If things get really ugly, the military could step in. Mugabe will rig the election; when he wins, Zimbabwe will be further criticized and isolated...
...Parliament is due to pass an Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Bill, which will ban foreign correspondents from the country and impose heavy fines and jail terms on local reporters for "unethical journalism." For the past two years Mugabe has tried to secure support for his zanu-pf party by distributing farmland forcibly wrested from its white owners to landless black Zimbabweans. The looked-for political gains have not materialized as the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Morgan Tsvangirai, won 57 of the 119 constituency-held seats in June 2000 elections. Since then bands...
ZIMBABWE More Chaos The publication of the first list of 1,000 names of black Zimbabweans to be allocated land seized from white farmers did nothing to ease increasing chaos in the country. Gangs of youths, supporters of President Robert Mugabe's zanu-pf party, rampaged through Harare townships looting shops and beating up residents. Human-rights workers as well as opposition leaders claim that the violence is part of an orchestrated campaign to secure another five-year term for Mugabe in forthcoming presidential elections...
...Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party. "People are being terrorized and beaten if they speak out against Mugabe," says Harare taxi driver John Makatini. The MDC has applied to contest in court 37 of last year's electoral constituency results that went to Mugabe's zanu-pf. Four of the opposition party's political heavyweights, including the leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, are also due to appear in court on charges of incitement in calling for a popular movement to oust Mugabe, and the government has said it would seize passports of critics whose statements or actions harm Zimbabwe...