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Nov 4 2009, Robb

Mugabe has ruled (?) Zimbabwe for almost thirty years and he considers himself the ‘elder statesman’ of Africa. He believes that he is untouchable and should be deified for what he has done for the Zimbabwean people.

If we were to believe...

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