'I feared Mugabe used juju,' says Grace

First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday said the first thing she searched for in President Robert Mugabe's bedroom was evidence of juju after wide speculation that the long serving ruler depended on powers from the occult.

Grace said she used also to travel using public transport and people would say Mugabe uses mafuta eshumba (lion fat), but she realised he has a shiny skin and when she first went into his bedroom, she was afraid and searched and looked under the bed and all over. She said she only found a rosary and thanked God she had been given a Christian husband.

Grace was distributing donations raised from her lavish 50th birthday celebrations held in Harare last Saturday.