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Mugabe declines to discuss resignation

    JOHANNESBURG

    President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, in power since independence from Britain in 1980, this week declined to say when he would step down or suggest a potential successor to take up the helm of his ruling ZANU-PF party.

    In an interview published on Tuesday with the South African daily, 'The Star', Mugabe was asked what would happen once his current term as president of the country ends in the year 2002: "Ask me nearer the time, and I will tell you. I also have to protect my party from internal fights that could start if I were to say I will not stand in 2002," he said.

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