Published: 03 March 2014

President Mugabe's neighbours had a hell of a day yesterday being subjected to rigorous searches by gun-toting security details as First Daughter Bona, tied the knot to Simba Chikore at a splendorous ceremony attended by the crème de le crème.

While it was all pomp and fanfare at Mugabe's plush Borrowdale home, it was a nightmare for his neighbours who had to deal with increased security in the neighbourhood after the 90-year-old leader opened his house to the public for the first time.

Close to 4 000 people attended the wedding and it was a nightmarish experience for dwellers of the usually serene upmarket suburb as thousands of top-of-the-range vehicles caused huge congestion in the Helensvale and Borrowdale Brooke area.

There was no church service for the Seventh Day Adventist Church, which lies in the vicinity of Mugabe's home and even construction workers working in the area were nowhere in sight.
- dailynews

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