{{Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has apologised for calling a South African aide a \u2018street woman.}}<\/p>\n
Mr Mugabe is said to have been furious with Ms Lindiwe Zulu during his country’s election campaigns and told her off.<\/p>\n
He is alleged to have called her \u201csome idiotic woman\u201d after she urged him to introduce some reforms before the polls.<\/p>\n
The 84 year old leader was so incensed that he told his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma to reign her in, newspaper reports said.<\/p>\n
Ms Zulu was the spokesperson for President Jacob Zuma’s facilitation team during Zimbabwe’s elections in July.<\/p>\n
However on Sunday, a dramatic apology was made at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Lilongwe, Malawi.<\/p>\n
According to reports, President Mugabe first apologised to President Zuma during a closed door meeting at the summit.<\/p>\n
He described his counterpart as a patient facilitator saying: \u201cHe was handling a difficult matter and we Zimbabweans did not make matters easy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were a very difficult customer to the facilitator \u2013 a temperamental one too.<\/p>\n
\u201cI even shouted at one of his officers (Ms Zulu). It is not that I hate her or I sought to berate President Zuma through her.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuite to the contrary, I love her, something that can make many of you wonder given that I am 89 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the end of the meeting, Mr Zuma approached Mr Mugabe with the aide in tow chanting: \u201cZimbabwe, I want my bride price, Zimbabwe I want my bride price.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Herald newspaper wrote: \u201cPresident Mugabe accepted the \u2018bride\u2019 (Ms Zulu) and proceeded to kiss the bride much to the laughter of all the Heads of State and government who were present.\u201d<\/p>\n
On his return home, President Mugabe said he was pleased that 14 SADC countries endorsed his re-election.<\/p>\n
Zimbabwe has been elected as deputy chair of SADC, which means that Harare will host the 2014 summit of Heads of State and Government.<\/p>\n
Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe’s former Prime Minister however claims that the polls were rigged a move that has prompted Botswana to demand an audit.<\/p>\n
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