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The NewsHawks has spoken to Susan Mutami's high school boyfriend who is now based in Johannesburg, South Africa, shedding light on who she is and how she used to behave when they were dating at the same time when she says she was raped by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

In a frank discussion, the 34-year-old young man narrates his experience with Mutami at the Roman Catholic Church's Loreto High School in Silobela, Midlands.
Mutami is from Mbizo Section 10, Kwekwe. She went to Fitchlea Primary School before going to Loreto High School in 2002.

Mutami's high school lover's story on her is revealing.
“I first met Susan in 2004 when I was in Form 4; she was a stream behind us.
"We were in the same sports house group called Winter Halder.
She was a good 400 metres athlete and I was in the discus sporting discipline.

"She was very good in athletics - 400-metre race - hence in 2003 we both reached provincial sports finals which were held at Chaplin High School in Gweru."

Their sports house, Winter Halder, was named after a Catholic priest,Father Winter Walder who once served at Loreto Mission.
Other Loreto sporting houses during Mutami’s time were Tambaoga, which donned green T-shirts, Top-toppers (yellow T-shirts) and Possent (red T-shirts).

“Susan was good in athletics. Her nickname was Wozoli, which she got after she outpaced competitors in a 400-metre race at Wozoli Secondary School out there in Silobela,” Mutami’s ex-school lover says.
Wozoli Secondary is located in Makhohliso Village in Silobela, Midlands.

Mutami’s high school lover says last week’s allegations of rape and sexual abuse – by Mnangagwa (soon 80) and Owen "Mudha" Ncube – are now making sense and helped him understand her behaviour back then at school.
Mutami is only 33, young enough to be Mnangagwa's granddaughter.

Mutami's high school boyfriend adds:
"When we were going out, her behaviour was erratic. Sometimes she would become silent in the middle of a conversation like a person in deep thought and from nowhere she would start crying.

"I could not understand her at the time; it was strange, but after these allegations she has made against some people it now makes sense to me.

"Again, towards the end of each school term when everyone was excited to be going home for holidays, she would have a completely different mood marked with sadness and anxiety.

“During those days, she would be very aggressive and we would break up often in our relationship. Sometimes we would break up twice in a week and make amends later. Days before school holidays were the most difficult in our turbulent relationship."

The ex-boyfriend says at the time, Mutami spoke about so many strange things he did not understand which now make sense after her recent Twitter Spaces public engagement, including working at a farm which she did not disclose at the time.
Now we know it was Mnangagwa's farm.

"At one time she told me that we could not meet during holidays because she had a personal bodyguard who watched all her movements.

"During those days Mutami also told me that during holidays she would be very busy because there was a farm she would go to work at in order to raise school fees.

"It did not make sense because our fees were so high that working at a farm for one month would not raise even a quarter of it."

Mutami said last week she lived in Mnangagwa’s Precabe Farm in Sherwood, Kwekwe, where she suffered abuse from him and his wife, First Lady Auxillia.

Mutami's ex-boyfriend, from Gweru, revealed that he once accidentally bumped on her in Redcliff, next to Kwekwe, where Mnangagwa owns Redcliff Hotel. The hotel was previously owned by Ziscosteel before it was sold to him for a song.

"When I met her (in Redcliff) she was so unsettled. She would look numerous times over her shoulder during the brief encounter. Besides, her language at school was also crude and immoral as she would claim in terms of sex, she had ‘big boys’ who did the business on her.

"She was living a double life. A happy life on her face, but inside you could feel that she was an emotional wreck and boiling. Now that she has exploded, I really understand why and hope she gets better.

"She was also one person who would not forgive. If you wronged her, the misunderstanding would not end. As for me, I had to deal with that by apologising a hundred times."

The ex-lover also spoke of how he would be spoilt by Mutami with gifts like perfumes, towels, snacks, drinks and cash at school, especially at the tuckshop, and during weekend entertainment gigs in the juniors' dining hall," he said.
“We were a power couple of bling at school."

The NewsHawks found this interesting and revealing because one of Mutami’s classmates – a lady – says when she arrived at Loreto High, she was visibly one of those kids who clearly appeared to be coming from a deprived or disadvantaged family.

During her Form 1 and 2 years, she appeared and lived like someone form a poor family.
However, things dramatically changed when she was in Form 3 in 2004 when she started living a bling lifestyle at school - she had lots of expensive stuff and money.

Mutami’s former classmates at Loreto High speak of Mnangagwa – her “sekuru – uncle” – visiting to see and spend time with her.
At that time Mnangagwa was Speaker of Parliament, powerful post, after he had lost his seat to the then main opposition MDC's Blessing Chebundo.

The rumour at the time was that Mnangagwa was dating her mother. Some however suspected he was simultaneously having love affairs with mother and daughter. As time went by, it emerged Mnangagwa was actually having a relationship with her as a minor, which is what she now says.