President Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace this week sued Jamal Hamed in a Harare High Court, accusing him of failing to deliver the 100 carat jewel she said she had ordered from him for her wedding anniversary in 2016.
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Grace, 52, an influential figure in Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party and seen as a potential successor to her husband, is nicknamed “Gucci Grace” for her reputed dedication to shopping.
Kenneth Nyangani of the privately-owned Newsday newspaper was detained late on Monday, police spokeswoman, Charity Charamba, confirmed, adding that a full statement would later be issued on the case.
In a previously unreported August 17 deposition seen by Reuters, Mugabe countered 20-year-old Engels’ version, portraying herself as the victim after intervening on behalf of her adult sons, Chatunga and Robert Junior, who were “in trouble with a drunken young woman”.
The wife of 93-year-old Robert Mugabe, a potential successor to the president, was granted diplomatic immunity and left South Africa on Sunday.
Engels accused the first lady of whipping her with an electric extension cable a week ago as she waited with two friends in a luxury hotel suite to meet one of Mugabe’s adult sons.
South Africa’s civil aviation authority grounded Zimbabwe’s plane that was due to leave Johannesburg for Harare last Friday because it did not have a foreign operating license, leaving passengers stranded.
A senior government source said there was “no way” the first lady, 52, would be arrested because South Africa would weigh the need to seek justice against the diplomatic fallout.
Gabriella Engels, 20, told South African media Grace had attacked her after the model had gone to see the Mugabes’ sons Robert and Chatunga at a hotel on Sunday.
Mangudya told reporters in Harare that the country would keep on using foreign currencies that replaced its local unit until a sustainable budget and higher business confidence were attained.
Mugabe told tens of thousands of supporters at a rally in the town of Chinhoyi, in his home province, that doctors were recently surprised by his “strong bone system”.
The 93-year-old leader’s comments could fuel political violence in the ZANU-PF party as the southern African nation gears up for elections in 2018, which Mugabe said he wished to contest.
“President Mugabe on Friday left the country for Singapore for a routine medical check-up,” Africa Review quoted local media.
Mugabe made the donation during the opening of the 29th AU summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
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Home Affairs Minister, Ignatious Chombo, insisted it was safe to wait for the case to go to court on Monday or Tuesday as this would give a clearer picture
The 49-year-old lady said when addressing veterans of the country’s liberation struggle in Mazowe that there were Zimbabweans who could run the country and not President Mugabe’s Vice President. Joice Mujuru
Mugabe, who had cataract operations a few years ago in Singapore, left Harare on Wednesday for a routine eye checkup, the Herald said, quoting a statement from presidential spokesman, George Charamba
Reynolds, 62, was arrested at a Harare hotel last week and was fined by a magistrate court