Grace, who is Zanu PF Women’s League boss, left the country again last Wednesday via South Africa on commercial flights. According to the Zim Ind, one of her relatives said this week: “The First Lady needs our prayers. She is very ill. I don’t know why the First family is being secretive about her illness. Zimbabweans would sympathise with her if they knew and they could help pray for her recovery.”
When Grace returned from the Far East on February 15, she said the appendectomy she underwent was the third operation after the first one in 1986 to remove tonsils, and a second one in 1996 for gall bladder removal.
Although he tried to downplay her illness, Mugabe, who is also struggling with old age and health complications, was the first to break the news of his wife’s condition when he returned in January.