Grace Mugabe Is Accused of Assault at Johannesburg Hotel<br />15, 2017<br />JOHANNESBURG — Grace Mugabe, the wife of the president of Zimbabwe, appeared voluntarily at a police station in South Africa on Tuesday after<br />she was accused of assaulting a young woman at an upscale Johannesburg hotel Sunday night, the South African police minister said.<br />Mbalula cooperated that bec<br />The police confirmed earlier in the day that a 20-year-old woman had registered "a case of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm" on Monday,<br />but said the suspect could not be named as she had not yet appeared in court.<br />Gabriella Engels, 20, has accused Ms. Mugabe of assaulting her while she was visiting Ms. Mugabe’s sons in a hotel room,<br />and has said that Ms. Mugabe’s bodyguards stood by and watched.<br />He was selected as the candidate of his governing ZANU-PF party in the 2018 presidential election,<br />but at the party’s governing congress earlier this year, he appeared dependent on his wife — who is believed to be leading one of the two competing factions inside the party.<br />She has since emerged as a political force in her own right alongside Mr. Mugabe, who is 93, the world’s oldest head of state<br />and the only leader Zimbabwe has known since its independence in 1980.
