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Mary Mabauwa carried to court on a stretcher.
The estranged wife of the Zimbabwean vice president was brought to court on a stretcher Monday to help support her lawyers’ statement that she is not well enough to stand trial.
Mary Mubaiwa’s husband, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, is a retired military general who planned the coup that brought the late Robert Mugabe’s government to a dramatic end in November 2017.
Mubaiwa was reportedly seriously ill with an unknown ailment and was briefly taken to a Harare magistrates court, where her legal team argued that she was not well enough to stand trial for allegedly assaulting a domestic worker.
Mubaiwa, 39, whose arms were injured and very swollen, could barely raise his head, according to an AFP journalist in court.
After being transferred to a wheelchair, the former model sat quietly, hooked up to intravenous drippers and beeping monitors.
He didn’t look up once during the 20-minute hearing and the gallery was tense.
Mubaiwa, who denies all the charges, was also expelled from her marital home after a court ruled that she cannot live under the same roof with her estranged husband.
She claims the charges were fabricated and that 64-year-old Chiwenga filed the attempted murder charges in an attempt to force her to participate in the divorce proceedings.
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