Personal Life
Gono and his wife live on a chicken farm in the north of Harare. The house, which has been under construction since 2000, has 6 bedrooms; a swimming pool, gym, and landscaped gardens. It is equipped with security cameras. There are upwards of 10 000 chickens on this farm alone. It is also, just a short drive away from the mostly white owned neighborhood of Borrowdale Brooke, where President Robert Mugabe's own private residence is.
Like many of Mugabe's inner circle, Gono also owns a farm (in Norton). However, unlike others, he is said to have bought and paid for it in the late 90's before the land redistribution program in which other farms were confiscated from localised white farmers.
In November 2008, Gono published a book titled "Zimbabwe's Casino Economy: Extra-ordinary Measures for Extra-ordinary Challenges" describing the post-colonial economy of Zimbabwe particularly during the first five years (2003–2008) of his term as Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ).
On October 24, 2010, the South-African newspaper Sunday Times ran a story falsely claiming that he had an affair with Amai Grace Mugabe, the wife of President Robert Mugabe. Later it was reported that the story could have been made up as a part of internal fighting inside the ruling party or the RBZ.
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