Grace Mugabe

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Grace Ntombizodwa Mugabe (born July 23, 1965 in Benoni , South Africa , according to other information July 23, 1964 in Enkeldoorn , Southern Rhodesia , née Marufu, later Goreraza) is the former secretary and second wife of the former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe . She was considered a possible successor to her husband as president from 2015 to 2017.

Life

Robert and Grace Mugabe (2013)
Grace Mugabe and Akie Abe (2016)

Her parents come from Chivhu and worked as migrant workers in South Africa. Upon her return to Zimbabwe, Grace Marufu graduated from primary school in Chivu and continued her school career at Kriste Mambo School , a Catholic educational institution in Rusape , Manicaland .

She later married Stanley Goreraza, an Air Force of Zimbabwe pilot . They lived together in Mufakose, a suburb of Harare . Her first husband continued his career as a military attaché in China and later in India . The connection resulted in a common child.

Grace and Robert Mugabe's relationship began during his first marriage to Sally Francesca Hayfron ; during this time Grace gave birth to two children to Mugabe, Bona and Robert Peter junior. In 1997 their third child, Chatunga, was born.

Robert and Grace Mugabe married in 1996, four years after the death of Robert Mugabe's first wife Sally Francesca Hayfron. Robert Mugabe married Grace in a traditional tribal ceremony as a junior wife. In 2014 she was elected chairwoman of the ZANU-PF women's league by acclamation and thus at the same time its representative in the ZANU-PF Politburo . Her significant influence on her husband (and thus on the politics of her country) was also politically visible.

Grace Mugabe was known for her luxurious lifestyle despite the economic difficulties of Zimbabwe and was therefore nicknamed Zimbabwe's First Shopper or Gucci Grace .

Since 2002, like other members of the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe, she has been banned from entering the EU and the USA. In September 2014, it received a doctoral degree ( Ph.D. ) in Social Sciences from the University of Zimbabwe , where her husband at the time as chancellor acted. It took her three months to write the paper. In January 2018, the University of Zimbabwe's Sociology Faculty hired the Anti-Corruption Commission to review the circumstances of Grace Mugabe's doctorate.

In August 2017, Mugabe beat 20-year-old South African model Gabriella Engels in Johannesburg, South Africa, who was staying in the hotel suite of her two sons. Mugabe was charged with assault but was given diplomatic immunity for the time being and was able to leave the country.

Grace Mugabe was considered a possible successor to her husband from 2015. On November 15, 2017, the military ousted Robert Mugabe. The reason was obviously the question of succession; the military preferred the highly connected Emmerson Mnangagwa , who had previously been forced to leave his post as vice president. On November 19, Grace Mugabe was expelled from ZANU-PF. In March 2018, she was charged with suspected ivory smuggling in Zimbabwe . South Africa eventually lifted her immunity and issued an arrest warrant against her in December 2018 for the previous year’s brawl .

Web links

Commons : Grace Mugabe  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Zimind: Grace Mugabe: From Chivu to Gracelands . on www.theindependent.co.zw (English)
  2. ↑ Africa Confidential : Grace Mugabe (Nee Marufu) . at www.africa-confidential.com (English)
  3. ^ Who's Who of Southern Africa: Grace Mugabe . on www.whoswho.co.za (English; archive version)
  4. ^ A b Roy Chinamano: Mugabe will not accept defeat - Grace. Zimbabwe Metro. Retrieved July 1, 2008.
  5. ^ Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF confirms Mugabe's wife as women's head , Reuters, December 6, 2014.
  6. ↑ Thomas Scheen : Mrs. Mugabe goes into politics. The rise of "Gucci Grace" , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 8, 2014, p. 6.
  7. ↑ Arne Perra's portrait of Grace Mugabe - The fairy godmother in Gucci. ( Memento from January 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Süddeutsche Zeitung from July 2, 2008
  8. ↑ David Smith: Don't mess with Grace Mugabe - she could be the next president of Zimbabwe. For two decades, she was a demure companion at her husband's side. Now she has taken the stage as a fearsome political figure in her own right. Can Grace Mugabe seize power before it's too late? Article from July 15, 2015 on www.theguardian.com (English)
  9. ↑ Ruth Weiss : The Miraculous Rise of Grace Mugabe . In: Association Switzerland-Zimbabwe. Swiss-Zimbabwean Friendship Association: Rundbrief / Newsletter No. 64, Nov. 2014, pp. 1–4 (online version)
  10. ↑ Grace Mugabe is said to have had the wrong doctorate. In: Spiegel Online . February 17, 2018, accessed February 17, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Model on Zimbabwe's First Lady: "I have to get out of here before she kills me". Der Spiegel from August 18, 2017, accessed on August 20, 2017
  12. ^ Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe deposed as head of the ruling party ZANU-PF. spiegel.de from November 19, 2017, accessed on November 19, 2017
  13. ↑ South Africa issues arrest warrant for Grace Mugabe. spiegel.de from December 19, 2018, accessed on December 19, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Mugabe, Grace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mugabe, Grace Ntombizodwa (full name); Marufu, Grace (maiden name); Goreraza, Grace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION second wife of Robert Mugabe
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Benoni