Grace Mugabe attends mother’s memorial service
A visibly frail former first lady Grace Mugabe yesterday attended her mother’s memorial service held at a parlour in the capital although her husband was absent.
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A visibly frail former first lady Grace Mugabe yesterday attended her mother’s memorial service held at a parlour in the capital although her husband was absent.
Grace Mugabe: “We used to travel using commercial flights during our tenure as the First Family. That has changed,” she said.
“President Mnangagwa charters a flight. It just takes us a phone call. It was a beautiful plane, a brand new Gulfstream 650 from Qatar.
“If I get rich I will buy such an aircraft. I have never boarded such a plane. The crew told me that I was the first person to board it. It is my dream plane. I felt comforted. VaMnangagwa comforted me. If it takes my mother’s death for us to restore our old friendship, then let it be.”
As the frosty relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his sulking predecessor Robert Mugabe get better, the government splashed hundreds of thousands of dollars last week hiring a charter plane for former first lady Grace — to allow her to fly from Singapore to Harare for her mother’s burial.