and merged to become zanu p.f. bringing mugabe one step closer to his ultimate goal. the merger of zanu and sample was a recognition of the need to submerge traditional or philosophical differences and unite the country. but it also fitted in with mugabe's ambitions he had long expressed the wish to create a one party state that was tied to a more democratic system during the 7 year lifespan of the lancaster house agreement. i think that there's a big constraint was hidden self you know while he was in power and he's really. the opposition had been weakened over the years and and silenced to some extent. the most dangerous type of dictatorship is a person's dictatorship or one man rule and that's because there's no institution to check their power in these dictators tend to make their decision in isolation in the case of he was trying to personalize the regime he was trying to make every decision on his own and the almost achieved it. in late 1987 the position of prime minister was a. polished and mugabe became pre