President Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace under a cloud of thick mystery is nowhere to be seen almost four weeks after her husband returned from holiday without her, amid suggestion at Mugabe’s instigation that she had gone under an operation for appendicitis.
 
When he returned on January 22, he told Zanu (PF) supporters and government officials at the Harare International Airport that his wife had undergone appendectomy and was recuperating in the Far East country.
Close to a month later, Grace has not returned unconfirmed reports say her condition has deteriorated and could be in a coma in the intensive care unit in Singapore.
However, presidential spokesperson, George Charamba, recently dismissed the reports.
“There is nothing like that,” he said. “It is those reports that are in a coma,” said Charamba.
He, however, did not shed light on Grace’s condition, adding to the mystery on her health.
There has be no official word on whether Grace’s two sons, Robert Junior and Chatunga, are with their mother.
It is not clear whether Chatunga passed his A-Level studies that he should have completed a year ago.
Mugabe returned from Singapore alone and did not comment on his children, save to say that they had undergone routine medical checkups.
Government has denied a claim that Mugabe underwent a major operation, while more reports have indicated that he could soon go back for further surgery.
The president, turning 91 on February 21, tumbled to his knees recently on his return from an African Union (AU) summit where he had just been made chairperson of the continental body. – TheZimbabwean