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07-15-2008, 08:01 PM
<H2>Do You remember this story - about Anne Matonga, the British woman married to big mouth Bright.................. who screamed at Monica Schulz about reclaiming the land back that was stolen.....................................!!!!! http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/aug26_2002.html#link1 (http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/aug26_2002.html#link1)
Well, well well, I now read that her black Zimbabwean Husband has hoofed her for no other than Mugabe's neice. I now wonder what this Anne Matonga is now saying and whether she will be allowed back in Britain
PETA THORNYCROFT
In a bizarre twist to the forced removals of Zimbabwe 's farmers, a white woman, believed to be British, took part in the eviction of a farm couple this week.
The woman, Anne Matonga, in her early 30s, screamed at Monica Schultz: "We are taking back the land you stole from us!"
Matonga is married to Bright Matonga, 35, a Zimbabwean propagandist. He worked as a sports reporter in London for the BBC but was recently recalled to Zimbabwe at the behest of Information Minister Jonathan Moyo to work for the state-controlled Herald newspaper, then the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation before being put in charge of the national bus company.
Vincent Schultz had been wrongfully arrested as the seizure of his farm had been ruled invalid on a legal technicality. Nevertheless, he was still in prison, pending a bail application, and his wife was alone on the farm on Sunday when the Matongas arrived and began hurling abuse at her.
"She [Anne Matonga] was rude, saying we had stolen her land. I thought it strange as she was white, and looked and sounded British," Monica Schultz said on Thursday.
Schultz was released without charges being laid on Monday when a magistrate ruled that he had not defied an eviction order to leave his farm by August 8, as decreed by President Robert Mugabe's government.
Then on Tuesday, Bright Matonga returned to the farm - this time with members of Mugabe's militia. "He told us he was pissed-off, very pissed-off, to find us still at home," Schultz said. "He threatened to return with a battalion. The police advised us to leave."
Police had a list of wanted farmers at a roadblock on Thursday, and Schultz feared, after his eviction in the morning, that he would be picked up again. The final straw for the distraught couple came when notorious militant, Joseph Chinotimba, who together with "war veterans" invaded foreign companies in Harare last year, arrived on the farm with Matonga and told workers they no longer worked for Schultz.
Schultz, 57, and his wife fled the farm in terror and are sheltering at neighbours. They both wept as they wondered what the future held for them.
Schultz said: "We will have to leave. I want peace. Out of Africa . Somewhere where Monica and I can relax and lead a family life, without our ears being tuned for vehicles, for shouting. It's madness, it's a nightmare.
"Living on a farm today is stressful . . . You are the head of the family, the head of the farm, you have to show your face, but when there are 300 people at your gate . . . Do you know how terrifying it is to walk down to your gate?
"I want somewhere I can go with my family, and have law and order."
Monica Schultz, who was born on the farm she has been forced to leave, said: "If peace prevailed we would love to stay on the farm, to grow old and die there. And we have a lot of workers there, some lovely people who worked for my mother, have been there for 50 odd years. Now they have literally nothing."
Forced to stop growing crops nearly two years ago by Mugabe's supporters, the farming couple were restricted to growing roses in greenhouses.
The 11 million roses annually exported to Amsterdam won't be picked again.
Some of the 135 permanent workers have fled the farm.
Matonga, who has a BSc (Hons) in Media Production and Technology from London 's Greenwich University , has left militia to guard his new farm.
The Matongas were not available for comment.
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Matonga ditches wife for Mugabe's niece
http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com (http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/)
July 14, 2008
Deputy Minister Bright Matonga
By Our Correspondent
HARARE - One question has been doing the rounds of the Harare political
establishment of late while keeping journalists gripped in a frenzy of
speculation.Why has deputy Information Minister, Bright Matonga, suddenly
become such an avowed defender of President Robert Mugabe, while at the same
launching a virulent onslaught on western nations, especially the United
Kingdom..
The secret is now out. Matonga's behaviour is linked to very personal
issues, pertaining to affairs of the heart.
Zimbabwe 's acerbic junior Information minister has effectively ditched Anne
Pout, his British-born wife of 11 years, and married a rich businesswoman
said to be the niece of the President.
The Zimbabwe Times can exclusively reveal that Matonga has officially moved
out of the Matonga matrimonial home on a farm they seized from a commercial
farmer and has since moved in with Sharon Mugabe, an immensely wealthy
businesswoman. The 36-year-old widow who has stolen the heart of the
capricious Matonga who stands a good chance of being named as new Minister
of Information any time now, runs a marketing communications firm, Imago
Y&R.
Matonga, who has become the darling of the British media as he routinely
lambasts the Gordon Brown government at the slightest opportunity, while
defending Mugabe, yesterday refused to take questions on his relationship
with Sharon Mugabe.
Sharon 's exact relationship to the President could not be established last
night amid suggestions that she is Mugabe's niece, daughter of Albert
Mugabe, the President's late brother, the trade unionist who died in a
swimming pool drowning back in the 1980s.
Imago Y&R, formerly Michel Hogg Young & Rubicam, was sold to Sharon Mugabe
by Zimbabwe 's marketing guru Michael Hogg in 2005 after a failed bid by
rival Gary Thompson's agency, Gary Thompson & Associates. The take-over
marked one of the biggest empowerment transactions in the sector. Mugabe
acquired the controlling stake in the leading advertising, marketing and
communications firm. She renamed it Imago Y&R.
The agency won the contract to run Mugabe's sleek election campaign ahead of
the June 27 presidential election run off, and is believed to have racked in
colossal profits from the glitzy but controversial campaign. The Reserve
Bank of Zimbabwe underwrote the cost of Mugabe's re-election campaign, while
Matonga became increasingly vociferous in support of Mugabe.
It is now being alleged that Imago Y&R secured the lucrative Zanu-PF
contract through its chief executive's personal relationship with the junior
Information minister. Matonga was responsible for vetting companies that
submitted tenders for the Mugabe election campaign.
In June, Bernard Barnett, a Y&R corporate vice-president in London , told the
Sunday Times that, following a tip-off, Sharon Mugabe had been asked whether
her company was the professional media outfit called in by Mugabe's advisers
after the last elections.
"We asked the managing director if it was true - that they had been working
for Zanu-PF - and she said she personally was one of the president's
communications advisers," said Barnett. "It was a very unpleasant surprise.
Neither she nor the agency should be working for a regime like that, and
especially not campaigning for them."
Barnet said at the time Y & R would sell its 25 percent stake in Imago. "We're
just anxious to end any possible connection between ourselves and that
disgraceful regime," he said.
Mugabe, whose husband died two years ago, now officially lives with Matonga
in her mansion in Borrowdale Brooke. She has been spotted on several
occasions in the company of Matonga at one or the other of her many business
enterprises, including a designer fashion boutique in the Eastgate Shopping
Mall.
The couple is reported to have a young baby. Matonga has moved out of his
matrimonial home, abandoning his wife, Anne, whom he brought back with him
to Zimbabwe in 2001 from the UK .
Matonga married Anne, a former municipal information- technology manager in
1997, and moved into her home in Billericay, a small commuter town in Essex ,
England , according to family sources.
Matonga is said to have met Anne while he was still at a college in
Southend-on-Sea, a resort town east of London , where he studied media
production and technology at South East Essex College .
Halfway through the four-year program, immigration officials tried to deport
him after a change in rules for foreign students made him ineligible to
stay. Anne is said to have intervened and averted her then boyfriend's
deportation.
After his graduation, Matonga worked as a delivery driver and a freelance
journalist and was literally living off Anne, our sources say.
Family sources described Anne as the marriage's "driving force who smartened
him up no end".
"This is how he pays her after all that she has done for him, abandoning a
woman who made him what he is today because of this other woman?" fumed a
very close family source. "He is an ungrateful bastard. So he is trying to
curry favour with the President by marrying his niece?"
The family source described how Anne looked after her husband while they
lived in Basildon before Matonga's return home in November 2001 to head the
state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation's television division.
Anne and their son flew to Harare six months later, our source added.
In September 2002, the couple became part of a state- backed campaign to
seize white-owned commercial farms for redistribution to black families that
mainly grew food for themselves. The programme resulted in a drop in food
production, caused food shortages and a decline in exports, as well as
triggering off the current economic recession.
The Matongas took over a farm in the rich Banket area, northwest of Harare .
Anne was subsequently quoted in the media while defending the land reform
programme and Mugabe's government policies.
Matonga, a former chef executive of the state-owned bus company, ZUPCO,
narrowly escaped incarceration following allegations that he benefited
corruptly from bribes during the acquisition of new buses by the company.
Matonga's co-accused, Charles Nherera, then ZUPCO chairman is currently
languishing in jail after he was convicted on the corruption charges.
Matonga is alleged to have been rescued through extra-judicial intervention
as he had been appointed deputy minister in 2005.
Sharon Mugabe studied and worked in the US until 2000. She was a financial
analyst, first with First Albany Brokerage Firm and later for New England
Consulting Group.
She returned to Zimbabwe in 2000, and joined the African Banking Corporation
as head of communications.
Our sources say she is the principal cause of the breakdown in the Matonga's
once happy marriage.
Efforts to obtain comment from Sharon Mugabe were futile. Anne declined to
comment, while Matonga screamed: "Go to hell," before switching off his
phone.
Well, well well, I now read that her black Zimbabwean Husband has hoofed her for no other than Mugabe's neice. I now wonder what this Anne Matonga is now saying and whether she will be allowed back in Britain
PETA THORNYCROFT
In a bizarre twist to the forced removals of Zimbabwe 's farmers, a white woman, believed to be British, took part in the eviction of a farm couple this week.
The woman, Anne Matonga, in her early 30s, screamed at Monica Schultz: "We are taking back the land you stole from us!"
Matonga is married to Bright Matonga, 35, a Zimbabwean propagandist. He worked as a sports reporter in London for the BBC but was recently recalled to Zimbabwe at the behest of Information Minister Jonathan Moyo to work for the state-controlled Herald newspaper, then the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation before being put in charge of the national bus company.
Vincent Schultz had been wrongfully arrested as the seizure of his farm had been ruled invalid on a legal technicality. Nevertheless, he was still in prison, pending a bail application, and his wife was alone on the farm on Sunday when the Matongas arrived and began hurling abuse at her.
"She [Anne Matonga] was rude, saying we had stolen her land. I thought it strange as she was white, and looked and sounded British," Monica Schultz said on Thursday.
Schultz was released without charges being laid on Monday when a magistrate ruled that he had not defied an eviction order to leave his farm by August 8, as decreed by President Robert Mugabe's government.
Then on Tuesday, Bright Matonga returned to the farm - this time with members of Mugabe's militia. "He told us he was pissed-off, very pissed-off, to find us still at home," Schultz said. "He threatened to return with a battalion. The police advised us to leave."
Police had a list of wanted farmers at a roadblock on Thursday, and Schultz feared, after his eviction in the morning, that he would be picked up again. The final straw for the distraught couple came when notorious militant, Joseph Chinotimba, who together with "war veterans" invaded foreign companies in Harare last year, arrived on the farm with Matonga and told workers they no longer worked for Schultz.
Schultz, 57, and his wife fled the farm in terror and are sheltering at neighbours. They both wept as they wondered what the future held for them.
Schultz said: "We will have to leave. I want peace. Out of Africa . Somewhere where Monica and I can relax and lead a family life, without our ears being tuned for vehicles, for shouting. It's madness, it's a nightmare.
"Living on a farm today is stressful . . . You are the head of the family, the head of the farm, you have to show your face, but when there are 300 people at your gate . . . Do you know how terrifying it is to walk down to your gate?
"I want somewhere I can go with my family, and have law and order."
Monica Schultz, who was born on the farm she has been forced to leave, said: "If peace prevailed we would love to stay on the farm, to grow old and die there. And we have a lot of workers there, some lovely people who worked for my mother, have been there for 50 odd years. Now they have literally nothing."
Forced to stop growing crops nearly two years ago by Mugabe's supporters, the farming couple were restricted to growing roses in greenhouses.
The 11 million roses annually exported to Amsterdam won't be picked again.
Some of the 135 permanent workers have fled the farm.
Matonga, who has a BSc (Hons) in Media Production and Technology from London 's Greenwich University , has left militia to guard his new farm.
The Matongas were not available for comment.
</H2>
Matonga ditches wife for Mugabe's niece
http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com (http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/)
July 14, 2008
Deputy Minister Bright Matonga
By Our Correspondent
HARARE - One question has been doing the rounds of the Harare political
establishment of late while keeping journalists gripped in a frenzy of
speculation.Why has deputy Information Minister, Bright Matonga, suddenly
become such an avowed defender of President Robert Mugabe, while at the same
launching a virulent onslaught on western nations, especially the United
Kingdom..
The secret is now out. Matonga's behaviour is linked to very personal
issues, pertaining to affairs of the heart.
Zimbabwe 's acerbic junior Information minister has effectively ditched Anne
Pout, his British-born wife of 11 years, and married a rich businesswoman
said to be the niece of the President.
The Zimbabwe Times can exclusively reveal that Matonga has officially moved
out of the Matonga matrimonial home on a farm they seized from a commercial
farmer and has since moved in with Sharon Mugabe, an immensely wealthy
businesswoman. The 36-year-old widow who has stolen the heart of the
capricious Matonga who stands a good chance of being named as new Minister
of Information any time now, runs a marketing communications firm, Imago
Y&R.
Matonga, who has become the darling of the British media as he routinely
lambasts the Gordon Brown government at the slightest opportunity, while
defending Mugabe, yesterday refused to take questions on his relationship
with Sharon Mugabe.
Sharon 's exact relationship to the President could not be established last
night amid suggestions that she is Mugabe's niece, daughter of Albert
Mugabe, the President's late brother, the trade unionist who died in a
swimming pool drowning back in the 1980s.
Imago Y&R, formerly Michel Hogg Young & Rubicam, was sold to Sharon Mugabe
by Zimbabwe 's marketing guru Michael Hogg in 2005 after a failed bid by
rival Gary Thompson's agency, Gary Thompson & Associates. The take-over
marked one of the biggest empowerment transactions in the sector. Mugabe
acquired the controlling stake in the leading advertising, marketing and
communications firm. She renamed it Imago Y&R.
The agency won the contract to run Mugabe's sleek election campaign ahead of
the June 27 presidential election run off, and is believed to have racked in
colossal profits from the glitzy but controversial campaign. The Reserve
Bank of Zimbabwe underwrote the cost of Mugabe's re-election campaign, while
Matonga became increasingly vociferous in support of Mugabe.
It is now being alleged that Imago Y&R secured the lucrative Zanu-PF
contract through its chief executive's personal relationship with the junior
Information minister. Matonga was responsible for vetting companies that
submitted tenders for the Mugabe election campaign.
In June, Bernard Barnett, a Y&R corporate vice-president in London , told the
Sunday Times that, following a tip-off, Sharon Mugabe had been asked whether
her company was the professional media outfit called in by Mugabe's advisers
after the last elections.
"We asked the managing director if it was true - that they had been working
for Zanu-PF - and she said she personally was one of the president's
communications advisers," said Barnett. "It was a very unpleasant surprise.
Neither she nor the agency should be working for a regime like that, and
especially not campaigning for them."
Barnet said at the time Y & R would sell its 25 percent stake in Imago. "We're
just anxious to end any possible connection between ourselves and that
disgraceful regime," he said.
Mugabe, whose husband died two years ago, now officially lives with Matonga
in her mansion in Borrowdale Brooke. She has been spotted on several
occasions in the company of Matonga at one or the other of her many business
enterprises, including a designer fashion boutique in the Eastgate Shopping
Mall.
The couple is reported to have a young baby. Matonga has moved out of his
matrimonial home, abandoning his wife, Anne, whom he brought back with him
to Zimbabwe in 2001 from the UK .
Matonga married Anne, a former municipal information- technology manager in
1997, and moved into her home in Billericay, a small commuter town in Essex ,
England , according to family sources.
Matonga is said to have met Anne while he was still at a college in
Southend-on-Sea, a resort town east of London , where he studied media
production and technology at South East Essex College .
Halfway through the four-year program, immigration officials tried to deport
him after a change in rules for foreign students made him ineligible to
stay. Anne is said to have intervened and averted her then boyfriend's
deportation.
After his graduation, Matonga worked as a delivery driver and a freelance
journalist and was literally living off Anne, our sources say.
Family sources described Anne as the marriage's "driving force who smartened
him up no end".
"This is how he pays her after all that she has done for him, abandoning a
woman who made him what he is today because of this other woman?" fumed a
very close family source. "He is an ungrateful bastard. So he is trying to
curry favour with the President by marrying his niece?"
The family source described how Anne looked after her husband while they
lived in Basildon before Matonga's return home in November 2001 to head the
state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation's television division.
Anne and their son flew to Harare six months later, our source added.
In September 2002, the couple became part of a state- backed campaign to
seize white-owned commercial farms for redistribution to black families that
mainly grew food for themselves. The programme resulted in a drop in food
production, caused food shortages and a decline in exports, as well as
triggering off the current economic recession.
The Matongas took over a farm in the rich Banket area, northwest of Harare .
Anne was subsequently quoted in the media while defending the land reform
programme and Mugabe's government policies.
Matonga, a former chef executive of the state-owned bus company, ZUPCO,
narrowly escaped incarceration following allegations that he benefited
corruptly from bribes during the acquisition of new buses by the company.
Matonga's co-accused, Charles Nherera, then ZUPCO chairman is currently
languishing in jail after he was convicted on the corruption charges.
Matonga is alleged to have been rescued through extra-judicial intervention
as he had been appointed deputy minister in 2005.
Sharon Mugabe studied and worked in the US until 2000. She was a financial
analyst, first with First Albany Brokerage Firm and later for New England
Consulting Group.
She returned to Zimbabwe in 2000, and joined the African Banking Corporation
as head of communications.
Our sources say she is the principal cause of the breakdown in the Matonga's
once happy marriage.
Efforts to obtain comment from Sharon Mugabe were futile. Anne declined to
comment, while Matonga screamed: "Go to hell," before switching off his
phone.