A South African civil rights arrangement said Mon it would challenge the government's determination to grant diplomatic immunity to Republic of Zimbabwe showtime lady Grace Mugabe, who was facing assail charges.
The married adult woman of President Robert Mugabe allegedly attacked a 20-year-old model alongside an electrical extension cord at a hotel inwards Johannesburg where the couple's 2 sons were staying.
The onslaught left Gabriella Engels alongside cuts on her brow together with on her caput that required stitching together with she filed an assail accuse against Mugabe.
South Africa's unusual affairs ministry building said on Lord's Day that it had granted Mugabe immunity later "careful consideration of all the relevant factors".
AfriForum, which helps victims of crime, is preparing a courtroom injunction to gear upward aside the unusual ministry building decision.
"We are going to inquire the courtroom to tell that the determination to grant immunity is unlawful because our legislation says that diplomatic immunity cannot apply inwards serious crimes, together with violence is business office of that," AfriForum's main Kallie Kriel told AFP.
Mugabe, who had been sought yesteryear police, flew out of South Africa inwards the early on hours of Sunday, hours earlier the unusual ministry building announced that it had granted her immunity.
The determination to grant Mugabe immunity "was non an slow i to make," it said.
AfriForum has vowed to assist Engels seek judge together with denounced what it said was a regional "culture of impunity”.
Seeking diplomatic immunity was an "afterthought," said Kriel.
"She had been hither for medical assistance alongside regards to her human foot together with thence diplomatic immunity does non apply."
"We believe that the diplomatic immunity should non accept been granted".
The grouping plans to launch a person criminal prosecution, which is allowed nether South African law. They recollect for it to live on led yesteryear Gerrie Nel, the erstwhile province prosecutor who led the example against Paralympian Oscar Pistorius together with has a reputation of winning high-profile cases.
Even if the attempt fails, Kriel hopes it may halt Grace Mugabe visiting South Africa.
"She loves shopping inwards Sandton inwards Johannesburg, together with then inwards the worst example scenario if nosotros larn to a province of affairs where she cannot come upward to the set down whatever more, I recollect that volition live on a positive step."
"But the showtime prize is to brand certain she is beingness prosecuted," said Kriel.
AFP