Mugabe: Alive, agile and 'very, very happy'

Zimbabwe’s embattled and isolated leader said yesterday that his government will take a stake in privately operated mining enterprises in the mineral-rich southern African nation, but he does not intend to nationalise the industry as he has commercial farmland.

In a wide-ranging interview, Robert Mugabe claimed his people – including hundreds of thousands made homeless by a recent controversial slum clearance and others facing famine because of disastrous land reform – are “very, very happy.”