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Two years on, the beast is revealed
LAST month marked President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration as the second directly-elected leader of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980.Mnangagwa came riding on the wave of hope that no one...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:49hrs | 1579 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo trial date set
FLAMBOYANT businessman Wicknell Chivayo, accused of bribery emanating from the Gwanda solar deal that he signed with the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), will now stand trial on November 24 after the Hig...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 18:59hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo not yet off the hook
THE High Court has ordered the trial of Intratrek Zimbabwe boss, Wicknell Chivayo and Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) former board chair Stanley Nyasha Kazhanje, to proceed before a Harare magistrate....Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:42hrs | 1197 | by Staff reporter
Politburo Bulletin: We are under attack comrades
The candid truth is that we are now hanging by a thread; we are on our own now. It is no longer a matter of if, but when, and when that happens will we be ready to face the tide, or even the Hague? Th...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:22hrs | 11059 | by Robert Sigauke
Mthuli Ncube's officials fail to appear before Tendai Biti
FINANCE ministry permanent secretary George Guvamatanga and his ministry officials yesterday failed to appear before the Tendai Biti-led Public Accounts Committee to give oral evidence on the Finance ...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:24hrs | 2288 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo's Gwanda solar project ready to roll
CONTROVERSIAL businessman Wicknell Chivayo owned-Intratrek says it is awaiting the finalisation of the financial closure phase of the 100 megawatt Gwanda solar project by the Zimbabwe Power Company (Z...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:37hrs | 2025 | by Staff reporter
Chasi wants Chivayo to start work on Gwanda solar project
GOVERNMENT wants Intratek Zimbabwe to start implementing the Gwanda Solar Project as the cancellation of the more than US$183 million deal will be costly. The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) ente...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:03hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo trial to resume in 2 weeks
The trial of businessman Wicknell Chivayo, accused of swindling the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) of $5,6 million is set to resume in two weeks following the Supreme Court ruling on Monday, overturning...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 08:05hrs | 1722 | by Staff reporter
Chasi wants reprieve for Chivayo
ENERGY minister Fortune Chasi has given Intratrek exactly six months to feed 10 megawatts into the national grid, adding intrigue to the raging court case against the company after the Supreme Court t...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:53hrs | 845 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo fraud acquittal reversed
The trial of Intratrek managing director Mr Wicknell Chivayo on a criminal fraud charge of US$5,6 million fraud involving Zimbabwe Power Company's Gwanda solar project, will now proceed after the Supr...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1318 | by Staff reporter
Judge raps arrested bigwigs
The High Court has castigated high-profile individuals facing corruption charges for abusing bail conditions, seeking passports for travel for medical or business reasons not revealed in the original ...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:19hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
Overlook Chivayo's criminal record, Undenge ordered ZPC
Former Energy minister Samuel Undenge reportedly ordered the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) management to overlook Intratrek boss Wicknell Chivayo's criminal record and award him the US$183 million Gwan...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1547 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa approved Chivayo's Gwanda solar project
THE final forensic audit report on Zesa Holdings (2019) by PricewaterouseCoopers has revealed that former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa approved the proposal to award Wicknell Chivayo's Intratrek...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 08:41hrs | 1464 | by Staff reporter
Government awaits technical report on Gwanda solar project
THE Government is awaiting a technical report from Zesa Holdings to make a decision on the way forward with regards to the commencement of work at the proposed 100-megawatt Gwanda Solar Farm project i...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:30hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Judgment reserved in Chivayo appeal
The Supreme Court has reserved judgment in the case in which the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is appealing against a High Court decision last year to acquit businessman Mr Wicknell Chivayo on ...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 06:52hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo loses property worth $180,000
BUSINESSMAN Wicknell Chivayo has lost office equipment worth $180 000 to thieving former employees who had been fired a month earlier, the court has heard.Tawanda Murare was not asked to plead...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 09:28hrs | 3490 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF bigwigs' investigation grows old
A Zanu-PF commission of inquiry set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in August last year to investigate bigwigs accused of corruption by the party's youth league has not met since then to deal with ...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:25hrs | 4376 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo scores victory against Ziyambi
HIGH Court judge Justice Phildah Muzofa has ordered Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi to respond, within seven days of receiving the court's order, to Intratek Zimbabwe director Wicknell Chivayo's requ...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:18hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo gets title deeds back
Wicknell Chivayo has been given back title deeds to his upmarket Colne Valley property, while his reporting conditions have been removed, but his bail has been raised to $10 000 to ensure he stands tr...Published: 21 Jan 2020 at 18:42hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo renews fight to be represented by South African lawyer
Businessman Wicknell Chivayo has approached the High Court seeking authority to be represented by a top South African lawyer, Zacharius Francois Joubert.This is the second time he has approach...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 05:53hrs | 363 | by ZimLive
Chivayo back in court
Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo has approached the High Court contesting an appeal that was submitted by the State against his acquittal in a $5,6 million fraud case against Zimbabwe Power Company...Published: 15 Jan 2020 at 06:24hrs | 0 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo hits back at the State
Intratrek Zimbabwe boss, Wicknell Chivayo, has hit back at the State after a recent Supreme Court appeal against his famous acquittal in $5, 6 million fraud charges.The State has appealed agai...Published: 13 Jan 2020 at 20:56hrs | 6020 | by Staff Reporter
Government officials try to extort South African businessman
South African based Engineer Matshela Koko has claimed that the 100MW solar power plant project which he was supposed to commence in August this year has been delayed because of people in government w...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:46hrs | 9004 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chivayo's Gwanda solar project impasse rages on
Businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is embroiled in an impasse with the Zimbabwe Power Copany (ZPC) over a US$5 million Gwanda solar power project, has approached the High Court seeking to rectify a rec...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:27hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo’s bid to delay trail flops
Attempts by former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chairman Stanley Kazhanje and businessman Wicknell Chivayo to delay their trial over an alleged $10 000 bribe failed yesterday after the magistrat...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:45hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
Intratrek says Gwanda solar power plant can be ready by June
Intratrek Zimbabwe says it is ready to begin the long-delayed construction of the 100MW Gwanda solar power plant.Intratrek says it has secured US$14 million financing for the first phase o...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1065 | by ZimLive
Wicknell Chivayo donates $16 000 to an ill Gwanda man
Maverick Businessman Wicknell Chivayo has donated ZWL$16 000 towards medical fees for one Tamson Phiri from Gwanda who is suffering from invasive squamous cell carcinoma. Chivayo responded to ...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 17:48hrs | 1221 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US$14m funding for Chivayo's Gwanda solar project
The 100 megawatt (MW) Gwanda solar project has received fresh impetus after a local infrastructure fund, African Transmission Corporation (ATC) Holdings, agreed to extend US$14 million to finance the ...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:37hrs | 3151 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo to stand trial for bribery
Flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is facing a charge of bribery after his company, Intratrek, transferred $10 000 to former Zimbabwe Power Company board chairperson Stanley Kazhanje's perso...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 07:38hrs | 1164 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa regime's attempt to mis-locate Zimbabwe's problems
Today, the regime in Zimbabwe has bussed the hapless victims of its unmitigated cluelessness in a vain attempt to mis-locate the country's problems in far-away Europe and Washington.As the hun...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | 901 | by Luke Batsirai Tamborinyoka
Chivayo moves to stop criminal trial
Local businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is set to answer to US$10 000 bribery charges alongside his company Intratrek Zimbabwe, has approached the High Court seeking an order to stay the criminal tria...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:37hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo moves to stop criminal trial
Local businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is set to answer to US$10 000 bribery charges alongside his company Intratrek Zimbabwe, has approached the High Court seeking an order to stay the criminal tria...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 10:51hrs | 1099 | by Staff reporter
Court reserves judgement in ZPC, Chivayo fight
The Supreme Court has reserved ruling in a contract battle between businessman Wicknell Chivayo and the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), after hearing arguments by lawyers representing both parties. ...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 07:03hrs | 4628 | by Staff reporter
Zacc requests more powers
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has made a request to be granted prosecutorial powers in order to expeditiously process graft cases through the newly established Anti-Corruption Courts....Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 06:59hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Zacc seeks trial powers
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is seeking prosecutorial powers to expeditiously process graft cases through newly established Anti-Corruption Courts.Currently, only the Nationa...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 06:36hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Zimnat resorts to lies and deceit in pursuit of the Diaspora dollar
ZIMNAT LIFE is risking a possible lawsuit in pursuit of the diaspora dollar over data protection breaches and gross misrepresentations to Diaspora Funeral Cash Plan (DFCP) clients of their role in the...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 14:32hrs | 952 | by Alois Vinga
Chivayo's South African lawyer barred from representing him
CONTROVERSIAL businessman, Wicknell Chivayo is restless after the Justice Minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi barred his attorney of choice from representing him in his pending criminal cases.Chiv...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 11:35hrs | 2606 | by newzimbabwe
Mliswa extends begging bowel to Chivayo
NORTON Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa on Friday appealed to businessman Wicknell Chivayo to give back to one of Norton's primary schools.The MP, who is well known in his constituency for wo...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 12:48hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
New Zesa board will have its work cut out
The tough talk by Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi to appoint a new Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) board is a noble idea because the country has been battling acute el...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:00hrs | 31 | by Beaven Dhliwayo
Ex-ZPC board chairman freed on bail
Former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chairman Stanley Kazhanje has been granted $1 000 bail pending appeal against both conviction and sentence for allegedly concealing a US$10 000 payment he rec...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:17hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe looked after his own
THE drums reverberated at the home of the late former President Robert Mugabe as boys from the Roman Catholic-run Kutama Boys High Mission sang in smooth innocent majestic voices to bid farewell to a ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 2514 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell's Intratrek returns to Gwanda solar power site
Intratrek Zimbabwe has returned to the Gwanda solar power plant site after the High Court in June ordered ZESA subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), to work with the renewable energy company t...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | 4334 | by ZimLive
Kazhanje jailed 3 years over Chivayo bribe
A HARARE magistrate yesterday sentenced former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chair Stanley Kazhanje to three years imprisonment for concealing a US$10 000 bribe he received from businessman Wickn...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1413 | by Staff reporter
Convicted ex-ZPC boss sentencing deferred
Convicted ex-ZPC boss sentencing deferredA HARARE magistrate yesterday deferred the sentencing of former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chair Stanley Kazhanje, who was convicted of conceal...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 09:19hrs | 1123 | by Staff Reporter
Former ZPC board chair convicted over Chivayo
Former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chair Stanley Kazhanje was yesterday convicted of concealing a US$10 000 transaction he received from controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo's Intratrek Z...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:20hrs | 1748 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo meets Malawi president Mutharika
Doors continue to be opened in the region for the controversial businessman, Wicknell Chivayo, who met Malawian President Peter Mutharika last week.Chivayo posted pictures of himself meeting M...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 19:07hrs | 3066 | by ZimLive
Ginimbi throws lavish party for journalists
Celebrity businessman Genious Kadungure is thrown a lavish party for journalists in Harare on Thursday. In a poster, he put on Twitter the youthful businessman is clear that the party is only ...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 06:47hrs | 994 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Commissioners to investigate Obert Mpofu named
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has constituted a Commission of Inquiry to investigate Zanu-PF secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu and other individuals fingered in corrupt dealings by the ZANU-PF Y...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 20:08hrs | 2926 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo calls on Zimbabweans to boycott Aug. 16 protests
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo sparked internet fury on Wednesday after calling on Zimbabweans to boycott protests called by the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change.The ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 23:39hrs | 4544 | by ZimLive
Electricity cuts, lifestyles and modified behaviour in Zimbabwe
Electricity and access to it is a big issue in Zimbabwe at the moment. Not least by admission of our own government, but more importantly by the lived realities of many urban-based Zimbabweans, civil ...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | 683 | by Takura Zhangazha
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