Grace Mugabe urges models to shun married men despite getting herself one

HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe has urged the 28 models who will be contesting at this year’s Miss 21^st February beauty pageant not to be swayed by married men who want to have relationships with them.

The first lady gave her advice at the Amai Mugabe’s children’s home in Mazowe where the bevy of beauties had come to donate groceries worth US$5000 at the orphanage.

“Even as you have donated to these children you also need to consider the reasons why these children are being abandoned by their mothers. Do not find yourself dating married men, it is better to get someone who hasn’t achieved much in life than to be in an affair with someone else’s husband.

“Don’t desire to have things that another woman has worked for. I am telling you these things as a mother and there are men out there who want to abuse beautiful young girls like you. If you don’t behave yourselves you will be used by men.

“If you take these words of wisdom you will one day make your parents happy when you get married properly,” she said.

Ironically Grace had an affair with a married Mugabe when his wife Sally Mugabe was battling a chronic kidney ailment. The affair resulted in two children, Bona, named after Mugabe’s mother, and Robert Peter, Jr.

Sally was never able to have any children with Mugabe after their only son, Michael Nhamodzenyika Mugabe, born 27 September 1963, died on the 26th of December 1966 from cerebral malaria in Ghana where Sally was working.

Sarah Francesca (Hayfron) Mugabe, popularly referred to as Sally Mugabe, was Mugabe’s wife until her death in 1992. On the 17th of August 1996, Mugabe married his former secretary, Grace Marufu, 41 years his junior, with whom he already had two children while she was married to Goreraza.

Bona Mugabe is currently 23 years old, meaning she was born in or around 1989, some three years before Sally Mugabe died. Robert Jnr, is 19 this year, meaning he was born in or around 1993, a few months after the death of Sally in 1992.

Meanwhile Mugabe dealt with Grace’s husband, Wing Commander Stanley Goreraza by dispatching him to work as a defence attaché at the Zimbabwean embassy in China. Goreraza and Grace had one child, a son, Russell Goreraza, who now manages his mother’s extensive farm property, Gushungo Dairy.

The couple only divorced between 1995 and 1996.