Mugabe’s daughter appointed to board
BONA Mugabe, 27, eldest child of President Robert Mugabe, has been appointed to Zimbabwe’s censorship board along with several other leading citizens close to the first family.
Bona has always kept a low profile, and even now is not often seen in high-flying social circles.
In the past few years, the Mugabe family have been promoted in various ways.
Grace Mugabe was awarded a PhD from the University of Zimbabwe after registering a few months earlier and is now widely known as “Doctor”.
Bona’s husband, Simba Chikore, was recently appointed chief executive of Air Zimbabwe and is trying to turn the airline around, as it is bankrupt. This week it had only one of its five aircraft in the air, as the others need maintenance.
He was a former pilot with an Asian airline before meeting Bona after she had completed her accountancy degree at City University in Hong Kong and postgraduate studies in Singapore.
Bona and her husband had a picturesque wedding at their parents’ palatial home in Harare in 2014.
His family are owners of a recently constructed R2.8 billion electricity plant, which runs on fuel and generates power into the national grid.
The new censorship board was announced by Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo on Tuesday.
The board will be led by former education minister, historian and traditional leader Aeneas Chigwedere. Other members are police senior assistant commissioner Charity Charamba, who is also national police spokesperson, and Mugabe’s favourite priest, retired senior Jesuit, Father Fidelis Mukonori. – Foreign Service