South Africa issues arrest warrant for Zimbabwe's Grace Mugabe

December 19, 2018 18:07

South Africa has issued an arrest warrant for Zimbabwes former first lady Grace Mugabe over an alleged assault in an upmarket district of Johannesburg last year, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.

After the alleged assault with an electric cable came to light in August 2017, the South African government granted Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity.

That immunity was overturned by a South African court this year after the alleged victim, model Gabriella Engels, challenged the decision.

Grace Mugabe was seen as a potential successor to her 94-year-old husband Robert, who ruled Zimbabwe from 1980 until he was ousted in a coup late last year, at the time of the incident in a luxury hotel in Johannesburgs Sandton district.

She has denied assaulting Engels with an electric cable, saying an intoxicated and unhinged Engels attacked her with a knife after the model had gone to see the Mugabes sons at the hotel.

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