Mystery perists about Bona's husband

Mystery persists about Bona’s husband, Simbarashe Chikore, who last August forked out lobolo, or bride price, of about R350 000 plus 15 cows to Mugabe for the hand of his 24-year-old daughter. Zimbabwe media said Chikore is a pilot with Emirates Airlines, but aviation sources in Harare say they have no record of him being a pilot.

Bona Mugabe was born to Mugabe’s second wife, Grace, six years before the couple wed in 1996 and while his first wife, Sally,was still alive.

Zimbabweans only found out that their president had children with Grace, his girlfriend from the typing pool, when a local magazine published a photo of Bona Mugabe entering primary school at the Harare Dominican Convent. 

Mugabe’s first child, a son, with his Ghanaian first wife, Sally, died when he was in detention in then Rhodesia

Both Emirates Air and Qatar Airlines – where media reports said Bona’s fiancé Simbarashe worked, denied he is an employee. 
4000 guests invited comprised foreign dignitaries, 3 seating heads of state and popular Congolese rhumba musician Koffi Olomide.