GRACE MUGABE: QUEEN OF DRAMA
Dar es Salaam. The 52 year old Grace Mugabe is no stranger to controversy and drama. The Zimbabwean First Lady’s love affair with President Robert Mugabe which started when both of them were still married and their eventual marriage in 1996 was materials fit enough for rousing telenovela.
But the alleged assault of a model, said to be a girlfriend of one of her sons, in South Africa earlier this week might have finally bring her back to her senses if efforts by the Zimbabwean government to seek diplomatic immunity fail.
It was alleged that last Sunday Ms Mugabe he hit the 20-year-old Gabriella Engels and injured her on the face.
Engels claims that Mugabe assaulted her after she found her with her sons, Robert jr and Chatunga Bellarmine.
It seems Grace also assaulted her sons, known for their high-rolling lifestyles, according to speculations in South African media.
Engels received cuts and bruises and had to crawl out of the room to escape, she claimed. She said that Grace’s bodyguards stood by and watched.
Grace has not yet publicly addressed the assault allegations, the reason that has led to so much speculations about both in the mainstream and social media.
Her whereabouts itself has been the subjet of intense media coverage.
First it was reported on Monday that she had surrended to police, who confirmed that they would take her to court later in the.
The second day news were that she had fled back to Zimbabwe where she was expected to attend an annivessary of the Zimbabwean army.
But during the course of the week it emerged that she was still holed up in a hotel in South Africa where she was expected to attend accompany her husband to a Sadc summit taking place in Pretoria.
And yesterday there were news of Zimbabwean officials working frantically to seek diplomatic immunity to protect her against prosection.
A section of South African media claimed yesterday that Grace Mugabe alleged that she hit Engels in the course of self-defense because Engels had attacked her first.
“She is adamant on the issue of protecting herself because she feels she was attacked. She says she was attacked by the victim and that she also has her own injuries which she is not going to publish in the media,” the South African weekly, Saturday Star, quoted an unnamed source as saying.
News of attack followed an avalanche of calls for prosecution of the Zimbabwean First Lady from civil society organisations.
Grace the politician
Back home in Zimbabwe, Grace is a staple in the mainstream media. She is politically active, which gives her an opoortunity and a forum to speak her mind every other day. She was designated as head of the ZANU-PF Women’s wing in 2014.
If she is not on the news for insulting a government minister, she would still be for accusing a vice president or another high profile government official of ploting to take over power. Of recent she was on the news of publicly calling upon her husband President to nominate a successor.
Last month she went public with news that she had somehow escaped unhurt from a freak accident that would have, otherwise, left her lame. She ‘revealed’ that her leg was run over by Robert Mugabe’s bullet proof limousine and that it was a “a miracle” she could still walk.
“I am telling you, I was run over by the armoured car… My leg was crushed and I thought I was not going to walk the rest of my life,” she was quoted by the Zimbabwean media as saying.
The accident happend when the limousine sent to pick them up from the airport, on July 15, moved off before she got in. They were returning from President Mugabe’s medical check-up in Singapore.
He political ambitions are not a secret, neither are her blantant political methods. In late 2014, she was fiercely critical of Vice-President Joice Mujuru, who allegedly plotted against her husband President Mugabe. Ultimately, the accusations against Mujuru resulted in her elimination as a candidate to succeed Mugabe and effectively becoming an outcast within ZANU-PF by the time it held a party congress in December 2014.
Following the ouster of Mujuru she was nominated as head of the ZANU-PF Women’s League, and delegates to the party congress approved her nomination by acclamation on 6 December 2014. In becoming head of the women’s league, she also became a member of the ZANU-PF Politburo
Doctor Grace Mugabe
Grace Mugabe hit the headlines again in 2014 with the revelation that she had gained her PhD in sociology from the University of Zimbabwe only two months after registering at the university, although a dissertation does not exist. The degree was widely described as fraudulent and the news were received with shock by many Zimbabweans some of whom demanded that she hands back her doctorate.
The news were also received as a continuation of her machinations to position hersefl to succeed her husband as the President of Zimbabwe.
Some academicians such as Kate Law and Helen Garnett, say as Mugabe has aged, Grace has been operating as the ‘power behind the throne’, and that it is Grace who has encouraged the authoritarian nature of ZANU-PF.
“It’s lazy, but convenient to rest on the ‘Lady Macbeth’ argument when one considers that Mugabe inherited one of the strongest economies in the region in 1980, with the country seemingly going from bread basket to basket case by the early 2000s,” they argue. But Grace is also known for her lavish lifestyle and seeming and shopping sprees that has earned her the name of ‘Gucci Grace’.
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