Zimbabwe’s first lady, Robert Mugabe has expressed her concerns about her sons’ wayward behaviour after they were evicted from a plush apartment in Johannesburg over wild parties.
According to a leading privately-owned Zimbabwean weekly paper, Robert Junior, 25, and Chatunga Bellarmine, 21, were caught in a vicious scuffle that involved a gun drama, forcing the landlord to kick them out last month, Africa Review reports.
“If I am to say women stand up to talk about your children, very few women can be brave enough to talk about that without breaking down,” she told relatives and friends at her sister’s birthday party on Sunday, the report quotes her say.
“Nowadays there are spirits attacking our children. The spirit of drinking, drug abuse and doing other abnormal things way beyond their age.
“I am telling you because the behaviour of the children does not matter if they are the president’s children or not. All children are mischievous,” she further said.
Her two children moved to South Africa this year after Robert Junior was forced to leave Dubai over allegations of substance abuse, the report said.
Junior was later joined by his brother Bellarmine who has been living in Harare.
“I have seen parents wearing torn clothes because their kids are demanding top-end trending clothes. In schools and universities, children are competing on fashion and they do not pay heed to parental advice,” Mrs Mugabe said.
President Mugabe has often complained about his two sons’ behaviour.
