Police still ‘negotiating with Grace Mugabe to surrender’, source says
Police are still negotiating with Grace Mugabe’s legal team to get the wife of the Zimbabwean president to hand herself in to authorities and appear in court, over allegations that she assaulted a woman in Sandton at the weekend, a senior police source said. “The negotiations for her to hand herself in are still going on. We are at a point where we cannot effect an arrest yet,” the source said. Police Minister Fikile Mbalula said earlier that Grace Mugabe had handed herself in to police and would appear in court. Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe, wife of President Robert Mugabe, did not hand herself over to South African police after a charge of assault was laid against her. Police Minister Fikile Mbalula said in an interview with eNCA earlier on Tuesday that Mugabe had handed herself in. "She is not in custody: she was supposed to be and that’s the agreement that was reached," national police spokesperson Vish Naidoo said by phone on Tuesday. "When the minister was asked the ques...
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