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		</div><p>South African officials are debating whether to grant diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe&#8217;s first lady Grace Mugabe, who is accused of assaulting a 20-year-old model in Johannesburg this week.</p>
<p>Mrs Mugabe remains in South Africa after a day of intense speculation over her whereabouts, South African police said.</p>
<p>The police said the Zimbabwean government asked for diplomatic immunity for a suspect involved in the alleged assault. The police have declined to name Mrs Mugabe in the case as she has not yet appeared in court.</p>
<p>Mrs Mugabe&#8217;s immunity request is currently under consideration, Clayson Monyela, a spokesman for the Department of International Relations and Cooperation told The Associated Press.</p>
<p>Acting national police commissioner Lesetja Mothiba said earlier on Wednesday that police and national prosecutors wanted to charge Mrs Mugabe, according to the African News Agency. <i>&#8220;Our position was that she must go to court,&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
<p>Gabriella Engels registered a case with police on Monday accusing Mrs Mugabe, 52, of attacking her with an extension cord in a luxury hotel in a Johannesburg suburb late on Sunday evening.</p>
<p>Ms Engels said she had been in a hotel room with mutual friends of Mrs Mugabe&#8217;s two sons, who live in Johannesburg, when the first lady burst into the room and allegedly assaulted her. Photos of Ms Engels posted on social media show a bloody gash to her forehead that she claimed was a result of the encounter.</p>
<p>Confusion over whether Mrs Mugabe was still in the country flared up on Tuesday after South Africa&#8217;s police minister said she was due to appear in a South African court and she did not show up, fuelling speculation she may have returned to Zimbabwe.</p>
<p>Police clarified on Wednesday that while the suspect had failed to present herself to police to obtain a &#8220;warning statement&#8221; about the case, she remained in the country and had sent her lawyers and Zimbabwe government officials to tell police she intended to request diplomatic immunity.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Discussions with the suspect&#8217;s lawyers and the Zimbabwean High Commission representatives are taking place to make sure that the suspect is processed through the legal system,&#8221;</i> the police statement said.</p>
<p>Ms Engels told the AP she would be willing to face Mugabe in court.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I want to go to court because I really feel like she should go to jail for what she did to me,&#8221;</i> she said. <i>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want her to get away with this. Because what happened to me was not OK.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Mrs Mugabe has been accused of assaults during other overseas trips, including a 2009 visit to Hong Kong in which a photographer accused her of beating him up.</p>
<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s state broadcaster reported late on Wednesday that President Robert Mugabe had left for South Africa to attend a regional summit.</p>
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