Zimbabwean
President Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace Mugabe, has confessed that she is
concerned about her sons’ wayward behaviour after they were evicted from a
plush apartment in Johannesburg over wild parties.
According
to a leading privately-owned Zimbabwean weekly paper, Robert Junior, 25, and
Chatunga Bellarmine, 21, were caught in a vicious scuffle that involved a gun
drama, forcing the landlord to kick them out last month.
“If I
am to say women stand up to talk about your children, very few women can be
brave enough to talk about that without breaking down,” she told relatives and
friends at her sister’s birthday party on Sunday.
“Nowadays
there are spirits attacking our children. The spirit of drinking, drug abuse
and doing other abnormal things way beyond their age.
“I am
telling you because the behaviour of the children does not matter if they are
the president’s children or not. All children are mischievous,” she said.
The
paper had reported that the First Lady flew to South Africa earlier this month
to address the sons’ issue.
The two
moved to South Africa this year after Robert Junior was forced to leave Dubai,
where he was studying, over allegations of substance abuse. Bellarmine, who had
been living in Harare, joined his brother in Johannesburg.
“I have
seen parents wearing torn clothes because their kids are demanding top-end
trending clothes. In schools and universities, children are competing on
fashion and they do not pay heed to parental advice,” Mrs Mugabe said.
President
Mugabe, 93, often complains about his two sons’ lack of seriousness but is
always full of praise for his only daughter, Bona.
Mrs
Bona Chikore, 27, holds a master’s degree in banking and finance and sits in
boards of several state-run firms. In 2014, her parents showered with her with
money and expensive gifts during her lavish wedding to Simba Chikore, now the
chief operating officer of Air Zimbabwe.
President
Mugabe has three children with his 52-year-old wife whom he married in 1996
after the death of his first wife, Sally Hayfron.
