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While most of Zimbabwean people nowadays are on the verge of dying from hunger and cholera epidemics, their First Lady Grace Mugabe (picture above) is enjoying her extravaganza lifestyle overseas. During her recent trip to Hong Kong, this Robert Mugabe’s 40-something-old wife bare-handed attacked two journalists without any warnings.

A Sunday Times photographer has been beaten up and punched repeatedly in the face by the wife of President Robert Mugabe.

Grace Mugabe, 43, known as the First Shopper of Zimbabwe, flew into a rage when she was spotted last week leaving the exclusive Shangri-La hotel in Hong Kong. She has been staying there with her entourage at a cost of £2,000 a day while her country endures poverty, hunger and disease.

Holding a Jimmy Choo-style bag estimated to be worth at least £2,000, and hiding behind Cavalli rhine-stone-framed glasses with a red cashmere shawl over her head, she ordered her bodyguard to attack the photographer, Richard Jones.

While the guard tried to wrestle away Jones’s camera, she joined in the assault.

“The man held him while she hit him again and again in the face with her fists. She was screaming, completely crazy,” said Werner Zapletal, a tourist from Austria who witnessed the incident.

Jones, 42, suffered nine cuts, abrasions and bruises to the face and head caused by the heavy, diamond-encrusted rings Mugabe was wearing, according to a medical report by Dr Raymond Ng, a general practitioner in Hong Kong.

During the assault more burly bodyguards came running from the hotel but were intercepted by security men from a nearby commercial building.

Mugabe and her female companion fled around a corner seeking to hide their faces, only to run straight into a second photographer, Tim O’Rourke. He snapped a few pictures before she flew at him with her fists flying, pulled his hair and tried to smash his camera. She then hurried back to her five-star refuge.

Grace Mugabe, was born Grace Marufu on 23 July, 1965. Anyhow, she managed to be secretary to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe during the early 1990’s. But a married Grace Marufu was adultury and she became a mistress of Robert Mugabe, 40 years of her senior.  Until 1995, she had given birth to two children fathered by Robert Mugabe. Thus, her then husband had no choice but to get a divorce. In 1996, Grace Marufu and Robert Mugabe married in an extravagant Catholic Mass, titled the “Wedding of the Century” by the Zimbabwe press. And since then,she maintained an extravagant life style while negelecting her people’s wellfare.

Grace Mugabe is more than 40 years younger than her 84-year-old husband. Formerly his secretary and mistress, she finally married him in 1996 after the death of his wife of 30 years, Sally, a Ghanaian intellectual. They have three children, Bona, Robert and Chatunga.

Grace Mugabe has often been blamed for encouraging her husband’s extreme views. Last year she said he would never surrender power.

Since becoming first lady, she has spent a fortune on foreign shopping trips, built a mansion in Harare, dubbed Gracelands, and acquired several formerly white-owned farms. Once, when asked why she spent thousands on expensive Ferragamo shoes while her people starved, she replied: “I have very narrow feet, so I wear only Ferragamo.”