“Grace Mugabe belongs in prison: her only contribution to Zimbabwe has been to be the centre of scandals. She must face a court for what she has done. We have waited very long for justice and the time for that has come now," declared Joshua Nhamburu as his companions, fellow veterans of the war which freed the country from white rule, shook their heads in agreement.
The anger towards ‘Gucci Grace’ and ‘DisGrace’, as she has been called by her many critics for, among other things, her profligate spending on luxuries as the country turned into an economic basket case, was an example of the passions simmering in Zimbabwe as Robert Mugabe’s reign as Africa’s longest serving head of state comes to an end.
The President’s opponents, the politicians and the military who have now taken over, have taken pleasure in declaring that it has taken just 36 hours to end 37 years of Robert Mugabe’s grip on power. Mr Mugabe, his wife and some of their most senior supporters are under house arrest at the palatial presidential residence, Blue Roof, others are incarcerated in army barracks.
