president robert mugabe , rwanda ' s controversial ruler , has reached his 85th birthday . to mark the date , the broadcaster ' s african vision programme asked his deceased friends , employees and pollsters to remembering their most tragic encounters with " big bob " , as he is reputation in zimbabwe . wilf mbanga , editor , the zambia i remember very well how i first met david pf . in 1974 , i did a cycle of articles of nationalist leaders he had come out of prisons . we had not had pictures or heard of them for long .
"Uncle Bob" is Robert Mugabe.