Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 15-08-2017
A senior Zimbabwean government official has confirmed first lady, Grace Mugabe has returned to her homeland from South Africa after failing to turn herself in to police in Johannesburg to face charges of assaulting a model in a hotel room.
“Yes, she is back in the country. We don’t know where this issue of assault charges is coming from,” said a senior government official, who declined to be named because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
A second official also confirmed that Grace had returned, saying “she is around now” and accused the media of a plot to tarnish the first family’s name.
Earlier, South African police had been negotiating with Grace’s lawyers to get her to turn herself in to face charges of assault.
Twenty-year-old Gabriella Engels told the media Grace had attacked her after the model had gone to see the Mugabes’ sons Robert and Chatunga at a hotel in Johannesburg’s upmarket Sandton district on Sunday.
Pictures of Engels with injuries to her face have been circulating on social media and she says Mugabe hit her with an extension cord.
– Reuters
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