HARARE – A 33-year-old woman has filed a police report in Queensland, Australia, accusing Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa of raping her while she was 15.
Susan Mutami told police her father, who was a Zanu PF supporter, met Mnangagwa – then a cabinet minister – at the local party office in the Midlands town of Kwekwe and pleaded with him to pay school fees for his daughter.
Before long, Mutami had moved in with Mnangagwa and his wife, Auxillia.
She claims Mnangagwa, who became president after a military coup in November 2017, raped her several times over many years.
Mutami filed a report at the Mount Ommaney police station, a division of Brisbane police, on Monday morning under case number 4026120.
It reclaims unclear how Australian police will handle the report, with Mnangagwa out of their jurisdiction and banned from travelling to the country due to sanctions.
A spokesman for Mnangagwa dismissed the allegations as “gossip.”
George Charamba told ZimLive: “It would be remiss of me to dignify gossip.”
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