Zimbabwe’s first lady assaults lady found with her sons, surrenders self to Police

Zimbabwe’s first lady, Grace Mugabe, has been accused of assaulting a 20-year-old South African model, Gabriella Engels.

The model was found at a hotel in Sandton‚ Johannesburg‚ around 9pm on Sunday night visiting the Zimbabwean president’s two sons.

In Engels’ words:

“We were chilling in a hotel room‚ and they were in the room next door‚”

“She came in and started hitting us. The front of my forehead is busted open. I’m a model and I make my money based on my looks‚” she said.

According to Gabriella Engels who suffered injuries to her forehead and scalp, she was beaten with an extension chord alongside her two friends while the two sons ran away and the Mugabe bodyguards held them captive.

“What is a girl compared to a woman beating you and 10+ bodyguards standing back‚ leaving her to do this sh*t‚” she tweeted about the incident.

However after she reported the incident to the Police on Sunday Night, she was advised by the police officer on duty‚ to first seek medical attention first.

Here are pictures from the incident:

Gabriella’s mother‚ Debbie‚ said they were going to the police station to open an assault case on Monday.

“When she got home I was already sleeping. She was in so much shock‚ she couldn’t tell me what happened‚” Debbie said.

“I rushed her to the hospital to get stitches and when she eventually calmed down‚ she told me she was assaulted by mugabe’s wife‚” she said.

Reacting to the episode, Garnet Basson‚ CEO of The Capital hotel group‚ where the alleged assault took place‚ said there was an incident that prompted management to ask guests to leave the hotel.

“What happened in the hotel room‚ I don’t have a comment on … I can’t disclose the name. We did have guests removed from the premises due to a scenario where we thought it was not good for them to stay there.

“It was almost a forceful exit‚ but it wasn’t. It was a decent exit after about a half an hour of discussions.”

Reports by eNCA television reveals Zimbabwe’s first lady, Grace Mugabe, has however handed herself over to the South African police on Tuesday after reports she had assaulted a woman in Johannesburg’s up-market Sandton district over the weekend.