Sarah Francesca “Sally” Hayfron Mugabe (6 June 1931 – 27 January 1992)
She was the first wife of Robert Mugabe, and the First Lady of Zimbabwe from 1987 until her death in 1992. She was popularly known as Amai (Mother) in Zimbabwe.
She was born Sally Francesca Hayfron in 1931 in the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana). She went to Achimota Secondary School, and then went on to university to study before qualifying as a teacher. She met her future husband, Robert Mugabe, in the Gold Coast at Takoradi Teacher Training College where they were both teaching, and went with him to Southern Rhodesia, where they were married in April 1961 in Salisbury (present-day Harare).
