In any event, the indigenisation debate and Zanu-PF's capriciousness hardly encourage foreigners let alone white citizens to invest.
ZANU-PF party holds its congress and will select Mr Mugabe officially as its presidential candidate.
Bright Matonga, a spokesman for the ruling ZANU-PF, said all parties agreed to the decision.
Zanu-PF youths also abducted MDC councillor-elect Lavender Chiwaya at his house on Tuesday morning.
President Mugabe has allocated the main ministries, including defence, home, foreign affairs, and justice to Zanu-PF.
There had been a big build-up ahead of the keynote speech of Zanu-PF's annual party conference.
ZANU-PF members of parliament because of gross violence during last year's parliamentary election campaign.
Previous attempts to negotiate ended in failure as Mr Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF reneged on its commitments.
That, he believes, would alienate those in ZANU-PF whom he hopes to win over.
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ZANU-PF, the party that has ruled the country since it gained independence from Britain in 1980.
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ZANU-PF would have to stuff ballot boxes, a tactic it has been wary of, so far.
ZANU-PF is likely to keep up its momentum and hone its thuggish electoral tactics.
President Robert Mugabe's ruling party, ZANU-PF, did well in the rural areas, especially in the north.
"This country belongs to ZANU-PF, " one youth shouted as he punched the air with a fist.
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Journalists' applications for accreditation must still go through the information ministry, controlled by the president's party, Zanu-PF.
Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party was also accused of unleashing violence against MDC supporters, an allegation it denied.
It was also opposed by many of ZANU-PF's old guard, loth to share the spoils of power.
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ZANU-PF's efforts to rig the presidential vote next year will also be harder than rigging a by-election.
Some ZANU-PF sources say but others deny that a place in a national unity government was offered to the MDC.
On Tuesday, a Zanu-PF official was injured when his house in north-eastern Zimbabwe was attacked with petrol bombs.
Mr Mugabe's mortality terrifies the security bosses and hardliners in his Zanu-PF party.
Voters are expected to endorse the constitution, negotiated by Zanu-PF and the MDC.
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Rubbish, said Saviour Kasukuwere, a Zanu-PF man who is the minister in charge.
But four years in a power-sharing government with Zanu-PF have taken their toll.
About half the population is dependent on food aid, which ZANU-PF officials have tried to deny to suspected dissidents.
ZANU-PF handed out government development money and an extra 4, 000 voters were moved to the constituency before the poll.
ZANU-PF officials, and promise to let the party use their vehicles for campaigning.
ZANU-PF party in the rural areas where nearly 70% of the population lives.
Chinamasa lost his seat in the elections in which Zanu-PF lost control of Parliament for the first time, AP reported.
Responsibility for the hotly contested home-affairs ministry, which oversees the police, is to be split between Zanu-PF and the MDC.
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