Grace Mugabe, the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, is reported to have fled the country for neighbouring Namibia.
Her husband is thought to be under house arrest in the southern African country’s capital, Harare, after the Zimbabwean military took control of the government.
It is unclear how Ms Mugabe was able to make her escape.
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Eddie Cross, an MP from the main opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change, said he understood the First Lady was now in Namibia.
A representative for the ruling Zanu-PF party also said he believed she was no longer in Zimbabwe.
It comes after Zimbabwean army generals seized power and detained senior officials, including Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo, as part of a round-up of “criminals”.
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Soldiers blocked roads around the main government offices, parliament and courts and took control of the national broadcaster. Gunfire was heard in the area around Mr Mugabe’s home.
In a statement read live on state television, Major General Sibusiso Moyo said Mr Mugabe, 93, and his family are “safe and sound and their security is guaranteed”.
The move could be an attempt to install Mr Mugabe’s former deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, as president. Mr Mnangagwa was sacked last week in a move seen as paving the way for Grace Mugabe to succeed her husband as president.
South African president Jacob Zuma said he had spoken to Mr Mugabe by phone and described him as being “fine” but “confined to his home”.
well done! after the smoke clears she need to be extradited back to the country and tried before the military court for abuse of executive privilege and power, causing a nuisance in the country, causing and creating chaos among the revolutionary ranks of the country,corruption, nepotism, patronage, and for inciting the coup, after they are finished with her the country’s treasury need to locate All the proceeds she accumulated from the diamond mining and the uranium that are stashed away and hidden in offshore havens, repatriate those funds back to the Zimbabwean treasury, when she is tried and convicted, give her the option to either 1.remain in Zimbabwe and serve her time, make a fresh start by joining the line with everybody else or 2.leave the country with all her name brand shoes and bags and take her husband alongside her with his cake and ice cream stuffed in his mouth.
1.remain in Zimbabwe and serve her time, make a fresh start by joining the line with everybody else or
On which planet?! That shold be hanging from the end of a noose!
Dwl them no easy she fled the husband!
That old man is a vegetable. She has no more use for him.
F**ka dem
I hope them beat her like how she beat the model in the room with a extension cord same way
Mummy always said “ntn last forever”.
But how shi fi duh dat? Run gone left the old man? This incident is exactly why I don’t like non-nationals of a country being involved in anything political (hello Shane Alexis), because as any little issue they have no problem with running away.