president robert harare , zimbabwe ' s controversial ruler , has reached his 85th milestone . to mark the occasion , the bbc ' s african panorama programme asked his former friends , employees and interviewers to describe their most memorable encounters with " don bob " , as he is famous in zimbabwe . halas mbanga , columnist , the zimbabwean i know very well how i first met robert mugabe . in 1974 , i did a series of pictures of nationalist ministers who had come out of africa . we had not had pictures or heard of them for decades .
"Uncle Bob" is Robert Mugabe.