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The Zimbabwe government has taken powers to nationalise the assets of people it regards as enemies of the state. It works like this. A statutory instrument (part of the anti-corruption campaign which has not so far caught anyone) allows the government to arrest, detain and investigate indefinitely anyone suspected of a crime. On 3 September President Robert Mugabe issued the Presidential Powers (Temporary Measures) (Reconstruction of State-Indebted Insolvent Companies) Regulations, 2004....

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Robert Mugabe, British, Mutumwa Mawere, South Africa, Patrick Chinamasa