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Michael Radu FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, March 14, 2006  In
comparison to Zimbabwe, neighboring Mozambique and Zambia, once
the far poorer countries, now look wealthy. South Africa and
Botswana, moderately successful by African standards, look like
first-world countries. Zimbabwe is becoming the most benighted
sub-Saharan nation, the heart of Africa's darkness and the soul
of its shame. The death of this once-rich and thriving country
has been the lifetime project of its Dictator for Life, Robert
Mugabe.      The Making of a Tyrant                 Dictator for
Life       Around 1990, Mugabe took his secretary Grace Marufu,
40 years his junior, as a second wife (his first wife would die
two years later). The marriage was a strange one, entered into
under a traditional African law which allows a junior wife.
Grace is infamous for her influence on her husband and for her
family's voracious