Robert Mugabe Through the Years

Patriotic Front leader Robert Mugabe (R) gives a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, October 29, 1976. (AFP)

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe greets well-wishers shortly after casting his vote at the Highfiled polling station outside Harare, on the first day of voting in Zimbabwe's general elections, April 8, 1995. (AP)

Grace Marufu, 31, the new bride of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, 72, right, waves at guests after their wedding ceremony at the Kutama catholic mission, west of Harare, August 17, 1996. (AP)

President Nelson Mandela, left, walks hand in hand with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe after the South African leader's arrival in Harare to address the 8th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, December 13, 1998. (AP)

Members of the black nationalist guerrillas of the Zimbabwean African Liberation Army (ZALA), led by Robert Mugabe, staging a rally in an unknown place in Zimbabwe, February 6, 1980. (AFP)

Pippa van Rechteren, left, and her two-year-old twins are blocked from leaving their house on the white-owned commercial farm, Chiripiro, by Zimbabwe war veterans in Centenary district, north of Harare, March 29, 2000. (AP)

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, left, is welcomed by Cuban leader Fidel Castro at the Revolution Palace in Havana, Cuba, July 16, 2002. (AP)

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace, arrive at a conference center in Harare, to join about 4,000 Zimbabweans who were praying for a peaceful, free and fair presidential election in March, January 12, 2002. (AP)

Zimbabwean leader President Robert Mugabe during the 30th Independence celebrations in Harare, April, 18, 2010. (AP)

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (R) listens as Finance Minister Tendai Biti delivers his budget speech in parliament in Harare, while Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (L) and Vice President Joice Mjuru (C) look on, November 24, 2011. (AP)