Grace Mugabe

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Mail and Guardian

Chiko Chikaya

10 June 2008 06:00 Her Grace has spoken. Mai Mugabe has declared with all the
authority of a First Lady: "Morgan Tsvangirai will never step into the White
House." She reportedly even put it rather graphically: "Morgan can only
dream and see the White House from the outside, but even if Baba loses,
Morgan will never see the inside." Vintage Grace. The presumption. The arrogance. Why no biography
has been written about this person is a mystery. We all know she holds huge
power and has a strong hold over the supposed leader of Zimbabwe. But who the hell is Grace Marufu-Mugabe? G, Gigi, or Gire (we
call her so many names) remains a figure of ridicule among Zimbabweans. She came into power literally via the office carpet. She was Mugabe's secretary and one can only imagine what words and actions were communicated between the geriatric and the young, beautiful and rather vacuous woman. But there was a catch that needed to be resolved by the two love
birds -- both were married. The dear leader had a dying wife and the
secretary had an airman for a husband. Easy -- send the airman to China for
permanent training. Then G steps into the groove and waits for the
inevitable -- the death of the first Lady. But all is hush-hush. Two kids
later a wedding is arranged, but not before two journalists have been
charged with criminal defamation for having prematurely given us some
details about a civil marriage of the Dear Leader and the Secretary. Their
crime was to put in black and white what we all knew. Months later G's is a wedding to end all weddings, with every
SADC leader present to wish the young-old couple well. But for the ordinary
Zimbo, we know we are in for it. Marie Antoinette and Imelda Marcos breathe
their spirits into the former secretary. She shops by the truckload --
Gucci, Vuitton, Jimmy Choo, you name it. But because she is actually a
village-girl-made-good, the crudeness doesn't disappear. Looks like you can
loot the coffers of the state as much as you want but you can't buy style.
And of course she is not the most discreet of people -- of her several
lovers one is reportedly six feet under (victim of a suspicious car
accident) and the other is on the run in London. Not a particularly intelligent person, she has not given us much
in the way of quotable quotes. Once she referred to us as "my people". We
could only shudder at that. Her husband had claimed the country as his
personal property ("Tony Blair keep your England, and I will keep my
Zimbabwe") and now she was even claiming to own us. Visions of slave
plantations. Visions of King Leopold III in the Congo. Then she raided the funds civil servants had been contributing
towards securing government-built housing. With that loot she constructed
some hideous Neverland dubbed "Gracelands". She never stayed in that
mansion. When asked how she had come about her wealth, she answered quite sincerely (red flaming lipstick and twisted mouth): "Ndinongosona zvinhu
ndichitengesa [I just do my dressmaking and sell what I make]." My aunt of
70 nearly fell off her chair. Grace can do that to you. But she can be creative at times. Like when she suggested that
the African First Ladies should network while the big men were doing the big
business. At one meeting she was accompanied by Hajia Mariam Abacha, wife of that hateful dictator. Mariam was to be caught at the airport in Abuja
fleeing to Saudi Arabia with suitcases filled with millions of US dollars.
Her husband had died suddenly (reportedly in bed with some sex workers), but not before salting away about $5-million. Does Gigi remember all this and
see the parallels? I doubt it. But G is also a disappointment in one area Zimbos hold dear. She
is not the most literate of people. She failed her A-level examinations when
she was already in the big white house with the Bwana. In a country where
education is prized, having a semi-literate person at the side of someone
boasting seven academic degrees (on top of the "degrees in violence") was a
national scandal. But now we are even more worried. Bob's sight is failing. Who is
going to read the Mail & Guardian to him? G would stumble over a sentence
like "Zimbabwe is an unmitigated disaster". Cartoonist Tony Namate has
suggested bigger spectacles, like the Karoo telescope, might work better. Bob himself, probably at the suggestion of Gire, has demanded of
The Herald editor: "Please increase the size of the font so I can read." So, you publishers in Cape Town and Johannesburg, pondering what
next bestseller you can bring out after Mark Gevisser's book, you have a tip
here: Gigi: Memoirs of A First Lady.

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[cindymasters]

Grace Mugabe and Robert Mugabe are the most evil, corrupted married couple ever. Grace and bob are living a life full of luxury while Zimbabwe are totally  destroyed because of bob and his cronies.

To make bobs politics even more horrific are that he claims that the land reform are not responsible for Zimbabwe's financial meltdown.

[oleary67xxxxx]

Stupid Zanu-pf supporters defending these rich Zimbabweans.Mugabe's day WILL come and TRUE DEMOCRACY WILLL SOON COME.

[codependent864]

This is a very large world, I'm sure I can't imagine it.

[turnfootsherlock]

@flyguyinmotion wall street you white asshole give whites power

[thevillain091]

ANOTHER WHITE CAVE MAN PROPAGANDA VIDEO. VIVAAAAAAA MUGABE

[Mambokadziwedu]

Sad thing though is the photos of the fam workers depicts the state that Last Rhodesian and his cronies left them. I do not sympathise with white farmers who cry foul and illtreated their farm workers when the going was good for them. I suppprt the MDC but not the indsicriminate subjugation fo black people

[mystuff414]

so glad i dont live there. Glad im not an african

[TheDerickh]

GRACE MUGABE IS WHORE,SHE IS A WHORE ON EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING,SO COME NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY I WANT EVERY MALE MINISTER TO TAKE OFF CLOTHES AND PREPARED TO GET YOUR DICK SUCK BY THE FIRST SHOPPER

[kelvin2661]

mata yako grace

[helenJuice]

this is good, a true gold digger in all honesty.

[BlushingMocha741]

@cindymasters Exactly. I was just reading on that. She love spending money. o_O While Zim is....sad.