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Grace Mugabe, widely known as the country’s First Shopper, has, like Marie-Antoinette, a penchant for diamonds and playing at milkmaids. Her model farm, Gushongo Dairy, is so named after husband Robert’s latest nickname ‘Gushongo’ – an obscure Shona totem name for the wily old crocodile. An earlier nickname ‘Jongwe’ (the rampant cockerel and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s emblem) seeming increasingly inappropriate for an elderly gent, no matter how spritely....

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Grace Mugabe, Marie-Antoinette, Robert, Gushongo, Jongwe, North Korean, Nigerian, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, Ngwenya, Henry Muchena, Douglas Nyikayaramba, qatah, Indaba, agbada

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