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Grace Ntombizodwa Mugabe (née Marufu; born 23 July 1965) [2] is a Zimbabwean entrepreneur, politician and the widow of the late President Robert Mugabe.She served as the First Lady of Zimbabwe from 1996 [3] until her husband's resignation in November 2017, [4] a week after he was ousted from power. [5]
His first wife, Susan Tsvangirai, was killed in the head-on collision. [3] As the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état occurred, Tsvangirai asked Mugabe to step down. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He hoped that an all-inclusive stakeholders' meeting to chart the country's future and an internationally supervised process for the forthcoming elections would create a ...
Constantino Guveya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga (born Constantine Chiwenga; 25 August 1956), is a Zimbabwean politician and former army general currently serving, since 2017, as the First Vice-President of Zimbabwe under President Emmerson Mnangagwa. In August 2020, he added the Health Ministry to his portfolio.
[1] [2] They are reported to be some of the last death row prisoners to be executed in Zimbabwe after retirement of the then hangman. [3] [4] Chidhumo and Masendeke met at Mutimurefu Remand Prison in Masvingo in 1995 where each was serving a 16 year imprisonment sentence. Together, they planned and made an escape from prison in November 1995 ...
6 November - Vice President Mnangagwa is fired by Mugabe as a move perceived to be an attempt to get his wife, Grace, to succeed him as President if he dies. [ 4 ] 14 November - Military forces take up positions on the streets of the capital of Harare in what the ruling party, ZANU-PF , calls an act of treason.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Barely a week after being elected as a local councilor for Zimbabwe's main opposition party, Womberaiishe Nhende and a relative were pulled out of their car by ...
Mnangagwa replaced the autocratic Mugabe as president after a military-led coup in 2017, won a disputed election in 2018, and has become Zimbabwe's new strongman in the same Mugabe mould, critics ...
Mugabe called on Zimbabwe's media to refer to his wife as "Amai" ("Mother of the Nation"), [484] although many Zimbabweans resented the fact that she was a foreigner. [485] She was appointed as the head of ZANU–PF's women's league, [ 484 ] and was involved in a number of charitable operations, and was widely regarded as corrupt in these ...