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IRIN NewsZIMBABWE: ZANU-PF wants to make Mugabe president for lifeHARARE, 30 July 2007 (IRIN) - A recent central committee meeting
of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party called for President Robert
Mugabe to be installed as president for life, and the creation of
ideological schools targeting preschool children.
The minutes of the party's central committee and politburo meeting
on 30 March - the two most powerful ZANU-PF organs, both chaired
by Mugabe in his capacity as president and first secretary of the
ruling party - were adopted on 4 May and subsequently leaked to
an IRIN correspondent.
Amid an economic meltdown characterised by an inflation rate of more
than 4,000 percent, South African President Thabo Mbeki, charged by
the Southern Africa Development Community with negotiating an end
to Zimbabwe's political impasse, acknowledged at the weekend that
free and fair elections would be the best route out of the crisis.
Mugabe, 83, has been in power since Zimbabwe achieved independence
from Britain in 1980, and has already declared his candidature in the
parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for March 2008.
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