Zimbabwe: Mugabe Wants 51 Percent Stakes in Companies

Johannesburg — PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's government yesterday tabled a bill that seeks to transfer majority control of "public companies and any other business" to black Zimbabweans, a move critics say could deepen the country's economic crisis.

A bill the government made public yesterday will be presented to parliament proposing indigenous black Zimbabweans receive at least a 51% share of those companies.

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