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| Grace Mugabe and a 'number of others' to be prosecuted in Zimbabwe, Zanu PF officials say | |
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| Grace Mugabe, the wife of Zimbabwe's president, is to be prosecuted along with a 'number of others', a Zanu PF official has said. | |
| The news comes after the sacking of Robert Mugabe, who has been dismissed as the head of the ruling Zanu-PF party and replaced by the deputy he fired earlier this month. | |
| Mrs Mugabe, who had been chair of the party’s women’s league, was also dismissed. | |
| Emmerson Mnangawa will take over as leader of the party, Chris Mutsvangwa, the chairman of the Zimbabwe War Veterans Association confirmed. | |
| Mr Mutsvangwa also said the party was beginning the process to remove Mr Mugabe as President of Zimbabwe. | |
| Mr Mugabe, 93, remains president of Zimbabwe, after calls for him to resign following the military takeover on 15 November. | |
| At Zanu-PF's Central Committee meeting, Obert Mpofu, minister of home affairs who chaired the group, said Mrs Mugabe was to blame for taking "advantage" of the leader, Al Jazeera reported. | |
| Mr Mpofu said: "We meet here today with a heavy heart because Mugabe's wife and her close associates have taken advantage of his frail condition and abused the resources of the country. | |
| "I warmly welcome you all to this historic meeting which will mark a new era, not only for our country but for the party." | |
| Mrs Mugabe, 52, has not been seen since the takeover and is believed to be under house arrest in Harare. | |
| A controversial figure known as “Gucci Grace” over her spending habits, she had been positioning herself as a successor to her husband and had been calling for the removal of Mr Mnangawa for weeks. | |
| The couple, who now have three children, married in a lavish ceremony in 1996 after having an affair while Mr Mugabe was still married to his first wife, Sally, who was terminally ill at the time. | |
| At the time, Mrs Mugabe had been working at a typist for Mr Mugabe. | |
| She was named head of the Zanu-PF women’s league in 2014 and had been tipped to become Vice President next month. | |