THE ZIMBABWEAN SITUATION: Robert Mugabe has survived for so long because he ...

THE ZIMBABWEAN SITUATION: Robert Mugabe has survived for so long because he ...: .Robert Mugabe has survived for so long because he is clever and more ruthless than any other politician in Zimbabwe. To give the devil his d...

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