The Sunday News
FIRST Lady Dr Amai Grace Mugabe celebrated her 51st birthday yesterday. In a statement yesterday, Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Christopher Mushohwe described Dr Mugabe as a role model for the girl child who has lived by example to fulfil long time dreams.
“The Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, Hon Christopher CC Mushohwe; Hon Deputy Minister Cde Thokozile Mathuthu; Permanent Secretary, Cde G Charamba and members of staff of the Ministry, join His Excellency the President, Cde RG Mugabe; the First Family and the nation in celebrating the First Lady Amai Dr Grace Mugabe’s 51st birthday anniversary.
“On this great day, we walk with the First Lady along memory lane extolling her great virtues and remarkable achievements in life. She is a role model for the girl child who lives by example to fulfil lifelong dreams; scholarship, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, charity, caregiver (chirera nherera), making a difference in society by bringing joy and happiness in the lives of others,” said Dr Mushohwe.
He said the First Lady has been a great and wonderful mother to Zimbabwe in addition to looking after her own family, especially iconic leader and State President, His Excellency Cde Mugabe.
“We pray that God continues to bless her with good health, divine wisdom, abundant love, success in her future endeavours, but above all, a blessed long life. We say to her, Congratulations, Makorokoto, Amhlophe. We love you.”
Dr Mugabe was born on 23 July 1965 to migrant parents in Benoni, South Africa. She was the fourth child in a family of five. In 1970, at the age of five, she moved back to Zimbabwe to live with her mother in Chivhu while her father stayed and worked in South Africa supporting the family from there. She did her primary education in Chivhu before she went to Kriste Mambo in Manicaland for secondary school.
In 1996 she married President Mugabe. The couple have three children together —Bona, Robert Junior and Chatunga while she has another child Russel from her previous marriage.
