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What I saw there it was actually terrible, people were being harassed in the park, Africa Unity Square by ZANU-PF people, " he said. "

He made his announcement just as members of Zanu-PF were visiting Asian countries to drum up support.

He said the violence meant people had been given a choice, to vote for Zanu PF or die.

That would be followed by a two-year transition and a gracious handover, perhaps to a compromise candidate within ZANU-PF.

Rumours of a coup, planned by a cabal of disgruntled senior security men and ZANU-PF bigwigs opposed to any real power-sharing, are rife.

The hotly contested home-affairs ministry, which oversees the police, is theoretically to be shared between the MDC and Zanu-PF.

Moreover, Chinese investment will go through the traditional corrupt channels where the ruling Zanu-PF clique will have access to it.

Zanu-PF would be loth to admit publicly that it was backing down over anything, least of all in the face of foreigners and whites.

The next day Zimbabwe's ruling party, the Zanu-PF, endorsed Mugabe as its candidate for the 2008 presidential election.

ZANU-PF sources say Mr. Mugabe had hoped the deal would be signed on Sunday and that the parliament would be called on Wednesday.

A commercial traveler, who also requested anonymity, said he had counted five ZANU-PF rallies, including the one at Ayshire Country Club.

Others who have been fighting Mr Mugabe's regime for years dismiss him because he was in ZANU-PF's leadership for so long.

It was Mr Mutambara who briefly emerged as a wild card, with officials from Mr Mugabe's ZANU-PF saying he had struck a separate deal.

The number of cabinet posts has largely been agreed and they would be split evenly between the opposition allies and ZANU -PF .

And the last is the state-owned Zimbabwe Papers group which publishes The Herald, a newspaper aligned to President Mugabe's ZANU-PF.

But Mr Makoni's team thinks sympathizers in ZANU-PF will give valuable tip-offs to help stymie the rigging.

This may be the toughest challenge yet to Mr Mugabe, whom his party endorsed in December despite rising dissatisfaction in ZANU-PF ranks.

Change is more likely to come from within the ranks of the ruling ZANU-PF, which itself is showing signs of cracks.

He claimed that the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was attacking supporters of the ruling ZANU-PF party.

Many were among the 700, 000 victims of Operation Murambatsvina, when Zanu-PF decided to sweep away entire shanty-towns in 2005.

The ZANU-PF man standing for a local council says he now openly engages with his opposition rivals.

Now there are reports in various media with connections to Zanu-PF that the run-off will be delayed by at least 40 days.

The funds are likely to benefit selected institutions that consolidate Mugabe and Zanu-PF's stranglehold on power.

Fearful residents are being forced to display ZANU-PF regalia and attend "re-education" meetings, often deep into the night.

Shortly after the session began, a noisy crowd of ZANU-PF women were reprimanded by the chair, Hope Sadza, a prominent academic.

MDC official said they will not join any government with the ruling of ZANU-PF party until all issues in power-sharing talks are resolved.

After three decades of undisputed rule, the accord calls for Mr. Mugabe's ZANU-PF party to share power with the opposition. Mr.

Mr Mugabe and his ZANU-PF will still control the army and probably the feared intelligence service.

It is hard to gauge the electoral weight of rural voters, who provide most of ZANU-PF's support, but it is certainly heavy.

While Zanu-PF have used the last 21 months to refocus and reinvent themselves, we've lost our identity.

These mines are under export controls following allegations of human rights abuses by Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.

The ZANU-PF minister responsible for the new law has told foreign banks to start lending money to black Zimbabweans or "ship out" .

But he does not disavow his long service in ZANU-PF governments.

The media in Zimbabwe is dominated by state-owned enterprises all of which remain loyal to Mr. Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party.

Mugabe's Zanu-PF party denies accusations of looting and abuses, while Biti blames smugglers for robbing the country of much-needed revenue.

Many farmers and workers attending the ZANU-PF rally now occupy white-owned land given to them by Mugabe in a process that began in 2000.

Mr. Mugabe's ZANU-PF has been anxious to get negotiations under way, perhaps to prevent the adoption this week of United Nations sanctions.

Most of the victims of violence say their attackers are members of Mr. Mugabe's ZANU-PF.

Polls suggest that support for ZANU-PF, in power for the past 30 years, has shrunk to less than 20%.

The communist party of hard conditions to let people see zanu-pf group was surprised, but also by the army and the sense YuShuiQing.

That, he believes, would alienate those in ZANU-PF whom he hopes to win over.

He is banking on a groundswell of support to loosen ZANU-PF's grip in the rural areas.

ZANU-PF has held the majority in parliament since independence from Britain in 1980.

Mr Makoni claims that most of ZANU-PF's leadership supports him.

ZANU-PF and Mr Makoni apart, the official opposition is weaker than ever.

The combined opposition holds 110 seats against ZANU-PF's 97.

There are many reasons why political tension is so high in Zimbabwe right now: sharp divisions in the ruling Zanu-PF party;