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ZIMBABWE: ZANU-PF PARTY CONVENTION

(13 Dec 2000) English/Nat Members of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party are arriving for a special party congress in Harare, with some six-thousand delegates expected to attend. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe will officially open his party convention on Thursday. The agenda for the three-day convention doesn't include discussion on succession or another demand of dissenters - that Mugabe's powers be reduced. The party congress is taking place amidst political tension and a deepening economic and social crisis in Zimbabwe. ZANU-PF scraped a narrow majority of 62 of the 120 elected seats in parliamentary elections last June. In the previous parliament, Mugabe controlled all but three seats. Law and order has broken down, the economy is in ruins, the government has defaulted on its debts and investment, aid and hard currency have dried up. Drivers spend hours lining up at petrol stations for dwindling fuel supplies, while food prices and inflation have soared and health and education services have crumbled. Despite this, everybody expects the convention to nominate 76-year-old Mugabe once again as the ZANU-PF candidate for the crucial presidential elections in 2002. SOUNDBITE: (English) "Generally ZANU-PF carries out its business throughout the whole year so basically at the moment we are trying to actually find consensus upon issues that would have been carried throughout the meetings that are held throughout the year, that there is total consensus from the various provinces. So this is like a combination of the objectives throughout the year. And that's probably the agenda- to actually straighten out the economy, try and focus things in proper perspective and create in every environment, start the economy where you can, you know, sort out the foreign exchange issues so that we can have a lot of the things that we do not have at the moment come into the country. You now, it is those particular positions which (are) in consensus, the party's to undertake during these two days of conferencing." SUPER CAPTION: Phillip Siyangwa, ZANU-PF Member of Parliament Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...