After ruling Zimbabwe for 27 years , the wife of Robert Mugabe Grace know by Zimbaweans as Gucci Grace and The First Shopper, which is a reflection of her extravagant spending in designer shops around the world despite the struggles of her country, Dis Grace, by those who believe she forced her 90-year-old husband Robert to remain in power so she could plunder Zimbabwe’s diamond wealth to fund her overseas shopping trips is vying for President in the upcoming elections.
Grace is said to have personally thrown an elderly white couple off their family farm, punched a British photographer in the face after he snapped her on a shopping spree and is widely hated by Zimbaweans.
Diplomats believe she is stealing vast chunks of the nation’s wealth from diamond mines. She blew £3million of state funds on her daughter’s wedding earlier this year and defends wearing her Italian designer shoes while people starve on the basis that she has ‘narrow feet’.
49 year old Grace who was Mugabe's secretary prior to marrying him after his first wife Sally Hayfron died from cancer has been holding mass ralies and was seen saying '
‘The time has come to show people what I am made of,’ she told one crowd. ‘I had never dreamed of entering politics but you have approached me and I am ready to go.’
Grace and Robert had just a child together who died at a very tender age. His other 3 kids are from his marriage to Sally.
Even before their marriage, Grace was accused of using state funds meant for low-cost housing to build a huge mansion in Harare. When the High Court ruled her loans were illegal she sold the property to the Libyan government, kept the proceeds and built an even bigger place.
According to Daily Mail Twelve years ago she turned up with armed enforcers at the home of a septuagenarian couple who owned a stunning 2,500-acre estate. ‘I’m taking over this farm,’ she told them, warning they had 48 hours to leave or face arrest. Since then Grace has built up a farming empire of thousands more acres of prime agricultural land, and launched a dairy range. ‘If she wants something, she just tells people she is taking it,’ said one diplomatic source.
Last year, she claimed she had to expand a small orphanage near Harare and took 4,000 acres of a company-owned estate, leaving 50 families homeless and costing the firm nearly £4 million. She added another 2,100 acres this year, claiming to have found the land lying idle. Local sources say she wants further expansion.
If she wants something she just takes it
Public distaste over her profligate spending grew as the economy slid into crisis after the farm seizures. She spent hefty sums on shopping trips in London, Paris and Singapore, where she was photographed with 15 trolleys overflowing with luggage at the airport. The Mugabes make regular visits to Singapore, where the president receives treatment for rumoured prostrate cancer while his wife hits the shops.
Photos of the alleged MMansion in Harare
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