Matonga is expected back in court today for a bail
application ruling, in a case where he is accused of stealing equipment
belonging to a farmer leasing his farm.
The accused, who served as deputy minister under the late
former President Robert Mugabe’s Government, was arrested by officers at Seruwe
Police Station, after an aggrieved white farmer reported him to police for
theft.
Sources told The Herald that Matonga, who was in a joint
venture with an unnamed white farmer, tried to seize the latter’s farming
implements.
“The white (farming) partner tried to withdraw his
implements, including tractors, but Matonga seized some of the equipment and
that is where the charge is emanating from,” a source said.
