Grace Mugabe’s was gang-raped during a military takeover in Zimbabwe, and this traumatic, brutal experience may hay contributed to her mental breakdown failing to travel to Singapore with her husband for a medical checkup and failing to attend Ezekiel Guti’s funeral, sources have revealed.
Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe reacts as her picture is taken during a voter registeration excercise at State House in Harare, Thursday, September, 14, 2017. Mugabe proclaimed the voter registration excercise to start as the country prepares for Presidential elections set for 2018( AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
Grace, 52 was supposedly detained along with her husband Robert, 93 after the military stormed Zimbabwe’s capital Harare overnight last year in November.
While President Emmerson Mnangagwa told just ended African Union summit of the word “safe” to describe his former boss, Robert Mugabe, nothing is mentioned about his wife who was severely abused, physically and emotionally. This has sparked anger from Mugabe’s loyalists who accused Mnangagwa of being dishonest and mistreating the former first family.
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The Harare Junta has lied to Zimbabweans, Sadc, AU & UN that there was no coup on 15/11/17. There was a bloody coup with killings, widespread torture, illegal arrests & detentions. Here’s CCTV clip ?? of start of Army attack on SK, me & our families at @Hon_Kasukuwere‘s home! pic.twitter.com/PwFvwGoUaI
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) January 13, 2018
A source close to the family revealed that since the November coup, Grace Mugabe has been kept indoors under heavy military guard at their family home in the plush suburb of Borrowdale.
Zimbabwe’s Former First Lady Grace Mugabe
There had been rumours that Grace would make her first public appearance this weekend at the funeral however she did not show up. The Mugabes and The Gutis are close friends and their son-in-law Simba Chikoore is a senior elder in the church.
The source revealed to this paper that Grace Mugabe is not allowed to go outside the perimeters of the house. Mugabe had pleaded with Mnangagwa to allow her to accompany him for his medical checkup in Singapore last month but Mnangagwa refused. There is fear that Grace would reconnect with her allies Jonathan Moyo and Saviour Kasukuwere.
The greatest fear for the military government is that Moyo, Grace, Kasukuwere and Zhuwao may sabotage it and reveal secrets related to the activities of Mnangagwa and Chiwenga that can be detrimental to their bid to lure international support.
The source also revealed that Grace Mugabe has been suffering from depression due to her isolation. She has not been allowed visitors and all her children are now living away from her in the Far East.
“She is virtually by herself. The only person she has at this point is Gushungo but you know with his advanced age, there is nothing much he can do. She is depressed, sometime bordering on psychosis”
It is believed that Grace has tried to reach out to close family friends like Gideon gono and Father Mukonori for help in pleading her case with the military government but this has been fruitless.
