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Zimbabwe's First Lady Accused Of Beating South African Model With Extension Cord
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 19, 2017 09:43pm |
| Category | Scandal |
| News Date | Aug 15, 2017 12:00pm |
| Description | Zimbabwe's first lady failed to turn herself in to South African authorities Tuesday, apparently evading accusations that she beat a South African model and her friend with an extension cord over the weekend. Grace Mugabe, who allegedly committed the assault in a Johannesburg hotel as her bodyguards looked on, had been scheduled to appear in court — but now police are struggling to explain where, exactly, their suspect went.
Earlier Tuesday, South African Police Minister Fikile Mbalula told reporters that Mugabe had walked into a police station and cooperated with officers — only to be contradicted just hours later when a police spokesman told the news agency Agence France-Presse that the suspect, whom he would not name, "hasn't handed herself over yet."
Instead, spokesman Vishnu Naidoo told AFP that police are negotiating with the suspect's lawyers, adding, "We do not know her whereabouts at this stage." Meanwhile Reuters, citing two anonymous Zimbabwe government officials, reports she is already back in Zimbabwe.
The 52-year-old Mugabe — wife of Robert Mugabe, the country's leader of more than three decades — allegedly confronted Gabriella Engels, 20, at a hotel where she had been "chilling" with her friends on Sunday evening. Mugabe's two 20-something sons, Robert Jr. and Chatunga, had been in another room nearby, Engels told TimesLIVE.
"When Grace entered, I had no idea who she was," Engels told South Africa's News24. "She walked in with an extension cord and just started beating me with it. She flipped and just kept beating me with the plug. Over and over. I had no idea what was going on."
"Her bodyguards just stood back and watched her beat me and my friend," she told CapeTalk radio station. |
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