Mugabe tightens power grip
Wednesday, August 31, 2005; Posted: 9:32 a.m. EDT (13:32 GMT)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) -- The constitutional tightening of President Robert Mugabe's grip on power has all but dashed South African hopes of mediating an end to Zimbabwe's crisis or keeping it in the IMF, analysts said on Wednesday.
Mugabe rammed constitutional changes through his ZANU-PF dominated parliament on Tuesday giving his government powers to nationalize white-owned commercial farms, re-introduce an upper chamber Senate and restrict suspected dissidents.
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