Grace Mugabe faces new assault charge

Grace Mugabe has been accused of attacking an employee at the family's home with a shoe two years ago, lawyers said yesterday. Papers filed in Zimbabwe's High Court by lawyers for Shupikai Chiroodza allege that the former First Lady used her fists and then her shoe in a prolonged attack that left Chiroodza's face bleeding. A TimesLIVE report notes that she allegedly attacked Chiroodza after accusing her of 'milking' her husband because she had accepted a cash wedding gift from him. Chiroodza was a government employee working at the Mugabes' private Blue Roof mansion in Harare when the alleged incident took place in March 2017, eight months before then-President Robert Mugabe was forced from office. Grace Mugabe also faces an arrest warrant in neighbouring SA for her alleged assault with a power cable on a female model in Johannesburg in the same year.