The arrest in South Africa of the youngest son of ex-Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has brought renewed attention to the former first family and their controversies over the years.

Bellarmine Mugabe, who is due in court on Wednesday for a bail hearing, is accused of attempted murder among other charges after a 23-year-old man was shot and injured at a property in an upmarket suburb of Johannesburg.

He has made no comment on the charges.

His father led Zimbabwe for 37 years before being forced out of power at the age of 93 in 2017. He died two years later.

The long-serving president and his second wife Grace had three children together: