Never has a name been less apt.
Much like how politicians throw around ‘honourable member’ in Parliament, and then flog their dignity to the highest bidder, so is Grace Mugabe the antithesis of decency.
As it stands she is accused of beating 20-year-old Gabriella Engels with an extension cord (HERE), although we know the chances of her ever facing the music range between zero and fokol.
Anyway, it turns out Zimbabwe’s first lady has a history of being violent whilst in foreign countries. HuffPost SA with more on that:
SEETHING IN SINGAPORE
Grace was briefly detained by police after she allegedly assaulted reporters and threw their cellphones into a pond. According to Bulawyo24.com, she had to reimburse the victims with approximately USD 1300 (approximately R17 200) to secure her release.
The violence wouldn’t end there, however. She is additionally alleged to have paid money to reporters in Singapore to prevent the incident making front-page headlines. When it did, a member of Mugabe’s close protection unit was accused of leaking information and allegedly tortured and beaten.
HOT-TEMPERED IN HONG KONG
Back in 2009, a British photographer claimed he was beaten and punched repeatedly by the first lady while trying to photograph here in Hong Kong.
She is reported by the Mirror UK to have lost her temper when she saw photographer Richard Jones waiting outside a five-star hotel where she was staying.
A Sunday Times (UK) correspondent, Michael Sheridan, who witnessed the event said Mugabe had instructed her bodyguard to attack Jones. “The bodyguard grabbed Mr Jones, wrestled with him, … then held him while Mrs Mugabe struck him in the face repeatedly,” Sheridan said.
“She was completely deranged, absolutely raging with anger,” Jones added according to the Mail&Guardian.
She got off on that one thanks to diplomatic immunity…
MUTINOUS IN MALAYSIA
Also in 2009, Mugabe was in VIP transit in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia when she walked from the international to domestic transit zone. Attempting to return to the correct area, she is reported to have been stopped by airport security whom indicated she was walking through a clearly-marked ‘exit only’ walkway.
Grace, however, refused to go through another check-in process, ultimately assaulting airport staff. According to Zimbabwe’s Nehanda Radio, an eye-witness said she grabbed a member of security staff by the collar and “bellowed that she was the wife of a President and could do whatever the hell she wanted to whenever she wanted to”.
There are also allegations of her assaulting journalists in Dubai, which is also where her eldest son was booted out of for possession of drugs. Apparently he was going to be executed, but Bob rushed over and paid for his son’s life in diamonds.
Scum, the lot of them.
Here’s something you might not know about Grace – she was born in Benoni! I suppose everything is yin and yang, so for every Charlize there’s a Grace.
She first started working at the presidential offices as a secretary, where it is rumoured she had an affair with Mugabe, then married to Sally Hayfron.
When Grace and Bob were married she was 31 and he was 72, and since then she has enjoyed blowing money all over the world whilst the Zimbabwean people suffer.
Fun fact – she enrolled at the University of Zimbabwe in July of 2014, and just two months later was granted a PHD in sociology.
Smart cookie, that one.
Over the past day it has also emerged that Grace owns a R45 million mansion in the Sandhurst suburb of Joburg, bought through a shelf company in February this year.
You can read more about that property HERE.
Is it any wonder Jacob and Robert are such tight friends?
[sources:huffpostsa&huffpostsa]
