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When Zimbabwe emerged from its settler status in 1980, the popularly elected government inherited a corporatist structure originally designed to serve settler interests. Rather than dismantle that structure to reflect nationalist ambitions and the new order the regime's corporatist inclinations became increasingly compatible with this inherited framework. The established corporatist structure was viewed as providing an institutional framework through which the state could impose its hegemonic position thereby paving the way for the establishment of its one-party state.