Zimbabwe: First Lady Caught with Pants Down

By Eric Sande

HARARE---President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace Mugabe has been cheating on her husband on a secret affair with Zimbabwean Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono who is also a top confidante of the president for the past five years.

The 45- year old Grace who is 41 years younger than Mugabe worked as his secretary before getting into a marriage. She and Gono are reportedly said that they would meet as often as three times a month either at her dairy farm or in hotels in neighbouring South Africa.

The revelation as reported in the Sunday Times, said that on her deathbed, Mugabe's younger sister Sabina had warned him that he was being betrayed by Mr. Gono and his wife, Grace.

Mugabe, desperate to keep the latest affair a secret, had senior police commissioner Cain Chademana, the bodyguard at his sister's deathbed, killed in August in efforts to bury the spread of the information.

The First lady has been known for cuckolding his husband with, one former lover, Peter Pamire, who died in a mysterious car accident and another, James Makamba who took a French leave from the country.

Governor Gono, 50, is now leaving in fear as it is said, ‘once he (Mugabe) hears something like that, I think someone will go to  meet God,’ a Zimbabwean intelligence official was quoted as saying.

Grace and Gono have been business partners for the last 15 years.

“Mugabe trusted Gono. He even thought our boss was taking care of the first lady, keeping a protective eye on her so that she could not again be adulterous”, said a senior official in Gono's office.

Mugabe's and Grace’s  relationship, in itself was founded on infidelity. When Mugabe was married to former wife Sally who died in 1992, Grace already had two children in a different wedlock with an air force officer.