PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe again defied age as well as alleged health problems to go through a gruelling four-hour programme as he officially opened the second session of the country's eighth parliament on Tuesday.
The veteran Zimbabwean ruler, a former darling but now bitter critic of the West, did not hide his taste for British monarchical pageantry as he whizzed into the capital city's Central Business District (CBD) in a 100-year-old British Rolls Royce, accompanied by police on horseback with his wife Grace on his shoulder.
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