Harare - After a decade as the face of the opposition in Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai received his just deserts Monday when he was named prime minister in a government of national unity alongside Robert Mugabe as president.
The stocky Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader, who, a year and a half ago was nursing a fractured skull following a beating in police custody, shook hands with Mugabe on a deal to share power aimed at ending Zimbabwe's decade-long political and economic woes.
Few would ever have imagined the day when ex-guerrilla fighter Mugabe, 84 and ex-trade union leader Tsvangirai, 56, would agree to work together to shore up the world's fastest-shrinking economy.