SA Police issues arrest warrant for Grace Mugabe

Months after a court annulled her diplomatic immunity, South African prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for Zimbabwe’s ex-first lady, Grace Mugabe over an assault case.

The development was confirmed by Police spokesman Vishnu Naidoo who said: “I can confirm that a warrant for the arrest of Grace Mugabe was issued last Thursday.”

Grace is being accused of assault by a model identified as Gabriella Engels who alleged that Mrs Mugabe beat the “hell out of her” with an electric extension cord sometime in the year 2017 at a hotel room in Johannesburg.

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Mrs Mugabe said at the time that she had acted in self-defence after the “intoxicated and unhinged” model attacked her in the room where her two sons lived.

Lobby group AfriForum, which has been pursuing the case, welcomed the arrest warrant.

“It seems that justice is going to take place and we are looking forward to this matter going forward,” South Africa’s Times Live website quoted AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel as saying.

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