Zanu (PF) defends Grace Mugabe after allegations of attack on woman
The official Zanu (PF) twitter account has come out in defence of Grace Mugabe who is alleged to have assaulted a Johannesburg woman — by saying the Zimbabwean First Lady had been attacked. Gabriella Engels claimed on Monday that she was assaulted by Mugabe following an altercation at a Sandton hotel at about 9pm on Sunday night. Engels told TimesLIVE she had met Mugabe’s two sons for the first time on Saturday. “[On Sunday night] we were chilling in a hotel room‚ and they [the sons] were in the room next door. She came in and started hitting us. The front of my forehead is busted open.” The model said the First Lady beat her and two of her friends with an extension cord‚ while the two sons ran away and the Mugabe bodyguards looked on. The Zanu (PF) twitter account tweeted a picture of her on Monday afternoon‚ saying: “We can confirm if this is one of the perpetrators who attacked comrade Grace Mugabe. Be careful comrades.” In a follow-up tweet‚ the account said: “There will be no o...
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