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Grace Mugabe: when the lipstick fails

By Herbert Moyo,  Johannesburg FIFTY-TWO year-old Zimbabwe’s South African-born First Lady Grace Mugabe could not have chosen a more auspicious time than the month of August to invade South Africa and eviscerate one of the most significant legacies of women of that country from the fifties. It should be common knowledge by now that Grace allegedly assaulted 20 year-old South African model, Gabriella Engels, whose crime was apparently to be found in the company of the First Lady’s two sons, Robert Jnr (25) and Chatunga (21). The incident which reportedly left Engels with gashes to her forehead and scalp, occurred at about 9pm on Sunday night at a trendy Sandton hotel in Johannesburg. Grace subsequently handed herself to South African police on Tuesday morning amid expectations that she would appear in court in Randburg on Tuesday afternoon. “She is not under arrest because she co-operated, and handed herself over to police,” Police Minister, Fikile Mbalula,...