Sadly for his many opponents, Robert Mugabe is far from being the decrepit old man some would wish. Indeed, judging by his display at last weekend's five-yearly ZANU-PF congress in Harare, Zimbabwe's 85-year-old president is as cunning and energetic as ever. Cultured, amusing, charming one moment, threatening and vicious the next, the former liberation hero remains a political superstar to his grassroots supporters. On December 12th he was reappointed his party's leader for a further five years and thus became its likely presidential candidate too.
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