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Ex-Praz boss loses court case against govt
FORMER Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) chief executive Nyasha Chizu has lost a High Court challenge against his employer after the authority terminated his employment contract in O...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mystery deaths deepen in Zimbabwe
DEATH is never easy and, whenever it strikes, the grief it causes is traumatic for family and friends who would have lost a loved one.This encounter with mortality always leaves the surviving ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 18:49hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
New twist to Zesa bigwigs' case
THE lawyer representing former Zesa chief executive officer Joshua Chifamba last week cornered the investigation officer Energy Mundandishe into making concessions which are likely to affect the State...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 07:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZRP, ZACC in a spot over Chivayo
PARLIAMENT has urged the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc)and the police to immediately investigate businessman Wicknell Chivayo and four former energy ministers for alleged corrupt activitie...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 20:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
4 ex-ministers face probe over Chivayo deals
FOUR former Energy ministers, who served under ex-President Robert Mugabe between 2013 and 2017 are being investigated for allegedly turning the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) into their feeding trough,...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo spills the beans on deals
Controversial and high-living businessman, Wicknell Chivayo, yesterday told Parliament how former president Robert Mugabe's office and two ministers had used their influence to have him awarded multi-...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 14:15hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe implicated in Chivayo shady deals
DEPOSED President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace were yesterday named in businessman Wicknell Chivayo's shady $7 million Gwanda solar project, as members of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on ...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa grills Chivayo
Businessman Mr Wicknell Chivayo was yesterday taken to task by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy over the $5 million he received from the Zimbabwe Power Company for the Gwanda ...Published: 13 Feb 2018 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police ‘complete' Kuwaza death investigations
Police have reportedly completed investigations into circumstances leading to the mysterious death of former State Procurement Board (SPB) executive chairman, Charles Kuwaza and handed it to a judicia...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Slain tender board chief death inquest to be held
AN inquest will be held to determine the circumstances under which former State Procurement Board executive chairman Charles Kuwaza died, as suspicion that the career bureaucrat was killed mafia-style...Published: 05 May 2017 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mafia-style murdered tender chief was scheduled to meet Mugabe
THE late former State Procurement Board executive chairman Charles Kuwaza was scheduled to privately meeting with President Robert Mugabe this past Wednesday, where he wanted to reveal the goings-on a...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 13:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Government torment late Kuwaza: demands $870 000 from his estate
The State Procurement Board has launched an audacious drive to recover about $870 000 from the estate of former chairperson, the late Charles Kuwaza.The amount is part of the money that the Zi...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 05:13hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Mafia-style murderd Zimbabwe's tender board boss buried
FORMER State Procurement Board (SPB)executive chairperson, Charles Kuwaza, who died under mysterious circumstances on Tuesday, was laid to rest at a low-key burial at Glen Forest Memorial Park...Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 10:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's tender board boss murderd mafia-style
FORMER State Procurement Board (SPB) executive chairman and senior professional bureaucrat Charles Kuwaza could have been murdered, contrary to the narrative he committed suicide by jumping to his dea...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 12:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's top civil servant's suicide: Questions arise
Family members and friends of former top civil servant and chairperson of the State Procurement Board (SPB), Charles Kuwaza - who died on Tuesday after falling nine floors from a high-rise Harare buil...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 12:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zinara grader tender was not above board
Just too often, corporates step up to say lofty things about themselves, especially when there are questions around their conduct. This is predictable because capital mostly tends to rebel against ins...Published: 26 Mar 2017 at 10:11hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zinara, Univern ties raise stink
Former Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) CEO, Frank Chitukutuku, left his post in a huff in 2014.His contract was due to expire in March 2015 but he offered to leave by Decem...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 08:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Parastal boss in trouble, cops set on him for corruption
Former State Procurement Board chairperson Mr Charles Kuwaza is facing arrest after the new board reported him to the police for alleged criminal abuse of office during his tenure bordering on tax eva...Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 06:20hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Kuwaza's refusal to vacate Government mansion a tip of the ice burg
The stance taken by the embattled former State Procurement Board (SPB) chairperson, Charles Kuwaza, to refuse vacating an official SPB house that he used during his service, demanding that the propert...Published: 14 Apr 2016 at 12:13hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
Mugabe's Office orders Kuwaza audit
Government has ordered an audit of deals approved by former chairperson of the State Procurement Board (SPB) Mr Charles Kuwaza in the past four years in preparation for takeover by a new board chaired...Published: 09 Jan 2016 at 07:01hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Zimra garnishes State Procurement Board
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has reportedly garnished the State Procurement Board's (SPB) bank account for the second time to recover over $800 000 in Pay As You Earn (PAYE) arrears for its ...Published: 14 Dec 2015 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tender scam rocks Bulawayo council
PROCUREMENT contracts with a combined value of about $8,7 million were re-tendered or extended after winning companies either disappeared or failed to complete works, a massive tender scandal that has...Published: 12 Jul 2015 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Vusumuzi Dube and Lungile Tshuma
Local motor industry being 'sabotaged' by Govt deal
Zimbabwe's motor industry, reeling from a debilitating economic meltdown like the rest of the economy, is an underworld run by a few individuals with government buyers behaving like a Mafia-style cart...Published: 04 Aug 2014 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chaos in state tendering system
Government has taken on board too many projects that it has failed to sustain financially, resulting in incomplete or poorly administered projects, parliament heard yesterday. State Procur...Published: 20 May 2014 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra tender raises eyebrows
The State Procurement Board has come under fire from losing bidders of a $2 million security tender for allegedly awarding the tender to two companies owned by one person.Trust Me Security an...Published: 17 Apr 2014 at 06:28hrs | | by Felex Share
Mugabe's govt splashes $6 million on cars
President Robert Mugabe's administration is buying 100 new fuel-guzzler vehicles from high-flying auto dealers in Harare for over $6 million at a time millions are facing starvation.The Ford...Published: 17 Oct 2013 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Procurement board floats 1 500 tenders
THE State Procurement Board has this year floated 1 553 tenders, with only one case having been disputed and lost.This was revealed by SPB executive chairman Mr Charles Kuwaza at a Common Mark...Published: 07 Nov 2011 at 04:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parliament Committee humiliates Gideon Gono
Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono was on Monday, June 4, 2011 turned away together with his senior staff members by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance, Economic Planning and Inv...Published: 05 Jul 2011 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe board gets 14-day ultimatum
On Moday a parliamentary portfolio committee gave the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe board a 14-day ultimatum to appear before it, failure of which the committee will invoke the necessary legal statute to f...Published: 04 Jul 2011 at 22:28hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Elton Mangoma's trail resumes
The trial of Zimbabwe's Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma accused of authorising the purchase of five million litres of diesel from NOOA Petroleum of South Africa without going to t...Published: 06 Jun 2011 at 20:46hrs | | by Court Reporter
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