SA minister blasts Grace Mugabe

South Africa's Women Affairs minister Susan Shabangu yesterday lashed out at Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe, describing her comments on women who wore miniskirts as "sad" and coming from someone who required to be liberated.

Shabangu's utterances might likely trigger a diplomatic tiff between the neighbouring countries.

Addressing a breakfast meeting organized by media house The New Age to mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Shabangu tore into Grace, describing her as 'oppressed and in need of liberation.'