President Robert Mugabe's sons were evicted from
a luxury apartment block in Johannesburg’s affluent Sandton
area because of their "unacceptable behaviour", a
newspaper claimed on Friday.
The details come after Mugabe said last month his wife had
made an "emergency” trip to South Africa to find "secure
accommodation" for their two sons.
The Zimbabwe Independent, quoting unnamed sources, said
the two boys – Robert Junior and Chatunga Bellarmine - had
been renting a luxury apartment at The Regent apartment
hotel, in Morningside, Sandton.
Apartments at the building are rented out for up to R74 000
per month, the paper said.
"The boys were usually up during the night partying with
different ladies, drinking and smoking," one unnamed
resident told the paper.
"There were almost daily complaints by other tenants about
the noise coming from apartment 601 (the Mugabes'
apartment)."
In a front page story, the Independent said things came to a
head late last month after "a violent brawl" in the complex's
entrance area left a member of the boys' security team
seriously injured, said the paper.
The fight was said to have involved "a dispute over women".
The boys were forced to vacate the property after that
incident, the paper reported.
Mugabe's sons relocated to South Africa from Harare and
Dubai earlier this year.
The First Lady's trip to South Africa last month meant that
she missed a rally to drum up support for her husband's
2018 re-election bid. It was at that rally that Mugabe first
told supporters about his sons' accommodation
"emergency", although he gave no details.
The Independent said that Robert Junior was a student at
the University of Johannesburg, and that he and his brother
were chauffeured around in luxury limousines.
A source told the paper: "Their driver would wait dutifully on
call in one of the luxury vehicles, often sleeping there,
awaiting a command to drive them to wherever they
wanted." Source: News. 24
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