Update 7.09pm: Lawyers for the young model who claims Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe assaulted her in a Johannesburg hotel have said that her family has been approached with an offer of money to drop the allegation.

South African officials are debating whether to grant diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe, who is accused of assaulting a 20-year-old model in Johannesburg this week.

Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe has requested diplomatic immunity over an allegation that she assaulted a young model in Johannesburg earlier this week, South African police said.

The wife of Zimbabwe's president has been accused of assaulting a young woman at a hotel in South Africa.

Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe has filed a $15m (€11.4m) lawsuit against a newspaper after it published a story citing WikiLeaks cables alleging her involvement in illegal diamond deals.

NESTLE says it will stop buying milk from Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s wife’s farm after facing worldwide boycott threats.

THE daughter of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe is studying at a university in Hong Kong under an assumed name, a newspaper said yesterday.

A British photographer said today that the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe punched him repeatedly in the face after he tried to take pictures of her near a luxury hotel in Hong Kong earlier this week.

ROBERT and Grace Mugabe swept out of Paris yesterday afternoon after a high profile summit and shopping trip which defied calls from the EU for the couple to be banned.

WHEN Grace Mugabe needed a new pair of shoes she did what any wife of a dictator would do — she borrowed an airliner from the country’s national fleet, flew to Europe, and picked up a pair of Ferragamo’s.

A member of Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe’s regime tonight left Britain, less than 24 hours after he was detained and faced deportation.