Grace Ntombizodwa Mugabe

Firstly there is the First Lady Grace Mugabe née Marufu who recently insisted that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai would never set foot in Harare’s State House – regardless of the election result...

It seems that Mugabe's favoured successor is still Gideon Gono Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe the President's personal banker and a relative of his second wife Grace Marufu...

Gono is close to First Lady Grace Mugabe especially in her 'charity' work and he handles the President's personal finances...

Onlookers remember that Utete is closely related to President Mugabe's wife Grace Marufu...

He is a brother-in-law of First Lady Grace Marufu and works closely with her on a children's foundation...

Meanwhile First Lady Grace Mugabe has been allocated a 27-bedroom mansion and adjoining farmland for 'duties of state' say local press reports...

mansion known as 'Graceland' in the Borrowdale suburb and built by a consortium linked to First Lady Grace Marufu and the National Housing Fund...

Some shops were looted because they were thought to belong to First Lady Grace Mugabe...

Born on October 23 1949 in Chiminya Village Hunzvi hails from the new Shona political heartland of Chikomba District (the home of First Lady Grace Marufu and Secretary to the Cabinet Charles Utete)...

He has tried to rectify this by ensuring the province has at least five ministers in the cabinet apart from himself: Industry and Commerce Minister Nathan Shamuyarira; Higher Education Minister Ignatius Chombo (head of the organising committee for Mugabe' s lavish wedding to Grace Marufu); Mines Minister Swithun Mombeshora; and Minister of Public Construction and National Housing Enos Chikowore...