South African police delineate Midweek said they knew the whereabouts of Zimbabwe's offset lady Grace Mugabe, who faces accusations of assault, but declined to tell if she had fled the country.
The 52-year-old married adult woman of President Robert Mugabe is defendant of attacking model Gabriella Engels, 20, on Lord's Day eve at a Johannesburg hotel where her 2 sons were staying.
Engels has registered a illustration amongst the police delineate alleging laid on amongst intent to create grievous bodily harm, proverb she suffered deep cuts to her brow too the dorsum of her head.
"We know where the suspect is," South Africa's police delineate spokesman Vishnu Naidoo told AFP.
"We are however continuing amongst the investigations. No warrant of arrest has been issued," he added after some reports suggested Grace Mugabe had hurriedly returned to Harare belatedly Tuesday.
The alleged onset threatened to spark a diplomatic tiff betwixt the 2 neighbouring countries, which own got potent political too economical ties.
Zimbabwean regime officials own got made no comment on the case.
Grace Mugabe allegedly arrived at the Capital twenty West Hotel amongst bodyguards too defendant Engels of partying amongst her sons Robert too Chatunga, who are both inwards their 20s too alive inwards Johannesburg.
- 'Kept beating me' -
Pictures on social media appeared to demo Engels haemorrhage from her caput after the alleged laid on at the hotel inwards the upmarket trouble concern district of Sandton.
Engels said she had been attacked amongst an electrical extension cord.
"She flipped too but kept beating me amongst the plug. Over too over. I had no catch what was going on. I was surprised... I needed to crawl out of the room earlier I could run away," she told the News 24 website.
Zimbabwe's president is expected to wing to South Africa after this calendar week for a regional SADC summit which opens inwards Pretoria on Saturday.
Grace Mugabe is 41 years younger than her 93-year-old hubby too the dyad has 2 sons too a daughter.
She regularly speaks at rallies too is seen every bit 1 possible competitor to own got over from her increasingly delicate husband, who has ruled Republic of Zimbabwe since independence from British colonial dominion inwards 1980.
Last calendar month she urged him to cite his chosen successor, reviving speculation close the race to own got over from the world's oldest national leader.
The succession battle is expected to pit Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa against a grouping called "Generation 40" or "G40" because its members are by too large younger, too which reportedly has Grace's backing.
While Grace Mugabe has inwards the yesteryear denied harbouring ambitions to own got over from her husband, at other times she has said she would hold upwards prepared to serve inwards whatsoever political position.
She has taken on a larger populace purpose inwards recent years, drumming upwards back upwards for her hubby too heading the women's league of the ruling ZANU-PF party.
In speeches this yr the president has oftentimes slurred his words, mumbled too paused for lengthy periods.
His reign has been marked yesteryear savage repression of dissent, majority emigration, vote-rigging too a sudden economical turn down since soil reforms inwards 2000.
Grace Mugabe appears to non own got diplomatic immunity condition every bit she was non inwards South Africa on official business.
South African Police Minister Fikile Mbalula told reporters on Tuesday that "in damage of unusual citizens, they must empathise they own got responsibilities, peculiarly those who concur diplomatic passports."
"We own got had to human activeness inwards the interests of the victim," he said.
AFP