Ncube to run for president

Robert Mugabe believed he had seen the back of the former Archbishop of Bulawayo, Pius Ncube, when he lured him into a honey trap and forced his resignation. But he will hear this week that his fiery adversary will be facing him in a straight fight for the presidency of Zimbabwe.

The disgraced prelate is about to announce that, far from being consigned to oblivion, he plans to head up a sensational new political movement in Zimbabwe, and will be a charismatic, popular candidate in the elections next spring.

Sources close to Ncube say his plans to take to the political stage are already far advanced. Meetings have been held with the Zimbabwe African People's Union Federal party (ZAPU-FP) and the Patriotic Union of