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| 1987 |
| | | The Zimbabwean constitution is changed to make Mugabe executive president (with Nkomo vice-president, until his death in 1999) | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Britain stops funding Zimbabwe's purchase of land for redistribution, on the grounds that many of the farms are being given to the political elite | |
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| 1992 |
| | | A Land Acquisition Act enables Mugabe to purchase land compulsorily, abandoning the 'willing buyer, willing seller' principle agreed at Lancaster House | |
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| 1995 |
| | | Sithole is arrested, on a charge of plotting to assassinate Mugabe, in a move widely seen as a way of keeping him out of the 1996 presidential election | |
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| 1996 |
| | | Mugabe is elected unopposed for a new six-year term as president | |
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| 1998 |
| | | Violent gangs, calling themselves the Mugabe War Veterans Association, start to 'liberate' more than 100,000 sq km of white-owned farmland in Zimbabwe | |
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| 2000 |
| | | Trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai leads a newly formed party in Zimbabwe, the MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) | |
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| 2000 |
| | | The voters in Zimbabwe reject a new constitution enabling the government to acquire land compulsorily without compensation | |
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| 2000 |
| | | In Zimbabwe's elections, marred by intimidation and violence, Mugabe's party wins 62 and Tsvangirai's 57 seats in the assembly | |
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| 2002 |
| | | In Zimbabwe's presidential election, again characterized by violence and apparent vote-rigging, Mugabe defeats Tsvangirai | |
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