Former Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, who was ousted last year in a military coup, has now revealed how his love affair with his wife, Grace started.
Mugabe gave the revelation while speaking at the funeral of his mother-in-law. According to him, he just grabbed and kissed his then secretary, Grace Marufu, and it marked the beginning of their romantic relationship, reports New Zimbabwe.
At the funeral which held at the couple’s Blue Roof Harare home, Grace looked surprised when the 95-year-old shared that he just kissed her and decided she loved him too because she had not resisted his overtures.
Mugabe and Grace started dating while Mugabe’s first wife, Sally was struggling with a terminal illness.
“Yes, we got involved when Sally was still alive, I had to,” Mugabe told mourners.
“Grace and I never dated either, I was just introduced to her and I said to myself she is a beautiful girl.
He added:
“Then I said to her one day, I love you and she didn’t respond.
“I then grabbed her hand and I kissed her. She didn’t protest or refuse and then I said to myself, that she has accepted to be kissed, it means she loves me.”
Mugabe’s daughter Bona was born two years before his first wife, Sally died in 1992. Grace and Mugabe went on to have two more children.
Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. He was forced out of office last year in a military coup.
