Robert Mugabe looks set to win the latest battle in his campaign to retain his grip on Zimbabwe on Monday, when he will swear in a new batch of MPs, blithely ignoring the terms of power-sharing talks with his arch rival.
He has outwitted Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, on many occasions, survived global opprobrium and an inflation rate that might have dethroned less resilient autocrats in his midst.
