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 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - For a time Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was one of the great hopes for the future of Africa. He was seen as intellectual, astute, pragmatic and open to reconciliation after years of bitter revolutionary struggle.
Decades after coming to power, at the helm of a country sinking in despair, he has become a tyrant instead of a liberator, critics say. Instead of reconciliation, he threatens any who dare challenge him.
"We must be on our guard. Our survival is an ongoing war," Mugabe told supporters after his narrow 2002 re-election, a vote observers say was rigged.
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