The Times hails Robert Mugabe as the “face of moderation” after he wins an overwhelming election victory to become the first black Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
Anyone listening to Mr Robert Mugabe, leader of Zanu (PF) and Prime Minister-Designate of Zimbabwe, when he addressed a press conference this morning after his party’s landslide victory in the Southern Rhodesian election would have found it hard to believe that this was a man whose name had struck so much fear and hatred into the hearts of the country’s white community.
Sitting in the garden of his suburban Salisbury house surrounded by happy party officials he spoke in soothing and moderate terms about the sort of society he wanted to see established in Zimbabwe.
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