President Mugabe blasts ministers with 'small houses'

Published: 2013 December 08 09:46:40 (5347 Views)

President Robert Mugabe has blasted some of his Ministers for being involved in extra marital relationships known as Small Houses in Zimbabwean cycles.

President Mugabe was speaking at the wedding of Praise Emily Gono and Tshalahika Malaba. Praise Emily Gono is daughter of former Reserve Bank Governor, Dr Gideon Gono, while her newly married husband is son to former Chamber of Mines Chief Executive Officer, Mr Joseph Malaba.

In his speech, Cde Mugabe said those who are in marriage should be faithful to their spouses and not get involved in extra marital affairs that have destroyed many homes and is unfortunately even dominant within his own ministers.

“We hear of small houses, sometimes I tease my Ministers saying some of you have small houses. If only we knew, those small houses perhaps we would go and destroy them. That should not be allowed.

“What do you want a small house for, what happened to your big house. ...you are married to one person and one person alone and if you had wanted you would not enter this type of union but have tried a traditional wedding,” said President Mugabe.

This is the second time in as many months that the President has come hot on his ministers for being involved in "small houses". Speaking at the wedding of his niece, Shammah Chidhakwa, who married Nicholas Bhero at the end of October, the President said some ministers were taking advantage of their wealth to engage in extra marital affairs and therefore failed to be exemplary to the youth.

"Upfumi uhwu dzimwe nguwa ndihwo huri kutikataza. Small houses, small houses. Ndaiti kuCabinet: 'Kukutarisayi imi mose, ndingati asina imomu small house ndiani?' Let us not follow that. One man, one wife and your marriage will go a long way."

"The ladies must fight this out, but they are the people in small houses."

Contrary to his speech, in his interview with Dali Tambo on SABC TV program People Of The South, the president confessed to having been in a relationship to his current wife and First Lady Grace Mugabe while he was still married to his late wife Sally Mugabe.

Asked by Tambo about the affair, the veteran leader suggested that it was part-inspired by practical considerations. "It was not just the fact that one was attracted (to her)," he said. "After Sally was gone it was necessary for me to look for someone and, even as Sally was still going through her last few days, although it might have appeared to some as cruel, I said to myself well, it's not just myself needing children, my mother has all the time said, ah, am I going to die without seeing grandchildren? So I decided to make love to her. She happened to be one of the nearest and she was a divorcee herself, and so it was. We got our first child when my mother was still alive."

Probed on whether he had told Sally about the relationship, President Mugabe said: "I did tell her and she just kept quiet and said fine but she did ask, 'Do you still love me?' I said yes. And she said, 'Oh, fine'."

The father of the bride, Gideon Gono has also been clouded in a lot of controversial extra marital affairs some of which featured very prominent names and have in some cases turned very dirty with threats of legal actions.

- Zim Metro

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