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Bureaucracy fuels tender loopholes

The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (PRAZ) has raised alarm over weaknesses in the country's public procurement system, warning that bureaucratic loopholes are being exploited by "tenderpreneurs" to win contracts unfairly.Spea…

Published: 24 Aug 2025 at 19:27hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter

ZETDC official in court over forged tender documents

A senior official at the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has appeared in court alongside his son on allegations of forging company documents to secure a lucrative tender to supply pre-paid meters to the p…

Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 10:17hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter

Transport Ministry publishes tender awards

The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development this week published its first quarter notice of tender awards, outlining contracts awarded for road maintenance, construction works, equipment supply, and security services. The mov…

Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 14:48hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter

Govt re-advertises tender for Old Gwanda Road supervision

The Government of Zimbabwe, through the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development, has re-advertised a tender to engage a consultancy firm to supervise the construction of the Old Gwanda Road project. This move aims to accelerat…

Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 12:39hrs | 334 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo council faces power cuts

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) risks further electricity disconnections as the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) enters the final phase of its prepaid meter installation programme, targeting all service po…

Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 08:38hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road rehab begins without official tender winners

Preparations for the long-awaited rehabilitation of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road are now at an advanced stage, with detours under construction to maintain traffic flow during the works.The 435-kilometre stretch, a vital corridor for to…

Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 08:37hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter

Dubious full-body scanners return on the market

Despite repeated warnings from health authorities and law enforcement, unlicensed full-body scan operators continue to spread across Zimbabwe, duping unsuspecting residents with questionable diagnoses and expensive herbal remedies.On Wedne…

Published: 11 May 2025 at 12:31hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter

Residents slam municipality over luxury vehicle purchases

Residents of Gwanda have voiced strong objections to the Municipality's recent move to procure top-of-the-range vehicles for senior management, describing the decision as a stark example of misplaced priorities at a time when basic service…

Published: 11 May 2025 at 12:31hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter

Residents oppose Gwanda council vehicle tender

The Gwanda Progressive Residents Association (GPRA) has raised concerns over Gwanda Municipality's decision to initiate a tender process for the purchase of six new vehicles, arguing that such spending is misguided given the community's pr…

Published: 07 May 2025 at 09:38hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter

Headmaster arrested for corruptly awarding US$155,000 tender

Vuti High School headmaster, Brain Chigudu, has been arrested and appeared in court for allegedly corruptly awarding a tender for the procurement of a 56-seater bus to Quest Motors Corporation.Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) off…

Published: 21 Jan 2025 at 13:49hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean activist engages Hichilema to cancel Chivayo linked tender

Zimbabwean activists based in South Africa have called on Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema to block Ren-Form, a South African printing company, from supplying election materials in Zambia's upcoming by-elections. This request follows R…

Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 08:43hrs | 1550 | by Staff reporter

Zimdollar remains legal tender until month-end

The Zimbabwe dollar remains legal tender for all domestic transactions until April 30, when the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) notes and coins will come into circulation, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has said.The central bank also said the rece…

Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa cuts ribbon on 23 fire tenders

IN a remarkable achievement by the Government, President Mnangagwa yesterday commissioned 23 firefighting trucks out of a total of 133 acquired from Belarus. A momentous step forward was also taken with the establishment of a multi-hazard …

Published: 19 Aug 2023 at 16:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Ramaphosa denies knowing his tender tycoon nephew

"I don't even know this gentleman."With these words, President Cyril Ramaphosa has, for the first time, denied knowing Hangwani Morgan Maumela, his nephew from a previous marriage, who scored close to R400 million from public hospitals in …

Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:41hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF, CCC legislators unite to condemn fire tenders deal

In a rare show of consensus Thursday, opposition and ruling party legislators roundly condemned the government's deal to procure fire tenders from Belarus with most telling deputy local government minister Mariam Chombo that her boss must …

Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

July Moyo reported to ZACC over US$9m tender scam

INDEPENDENT Norton lawmaker Temba Mliswa has formally reported Local Government Public Works and National Housing minister July Moyo to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) over a corrupt US$9 million water pumps tender.Moyo has …

Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Govt speaks on Wadyajena $3 million road deal

GOVERNMENT says the Golden Valley-Sanyati Road project being worked on by a company linked to Zanu-PF Gokwe-Nembudziya member of Parliament Justice Mayor Wadyajena is going ahead despite reservations over alleged failure to meet deadline.M…

Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:08hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Tender scandal: Zacc scared of Mangwiro

THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is politically hamstrung to arrest deputy Health minister John Mangwiro (pictured) after he allegedly coerced state-owned medical supplies entity NatPharm to award an inflated US$5.6 million C…

Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

US$18m tender scandal rocks Office of President

THE Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has been implicated in a multi-million-dollar tender scandal after top bureaucrats tried to smuggle a losing bidder through the back door, the Zimbabwe Independent reported.The US$18 million te…

Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:47hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Natpharm reverses tender nullification

THE National Pharmaceutical Company (Natpharm) has been forced to reverse a decision to disqualify a Chinese firm from a Covid-19 test kits tender after it had been denied on the basis of excluding transport costs from Robert Mugabe Intern…

Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

July Moyo named in US$9m tender storm

LOCAL Government minister July Moyo is entangled in a scandal in which a company linked to a businessman at the centre of the Chilonga row was allegedly awarded a US$9,3 million contract to supply water pumps to the City of Harare without …

Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mbare tender scandal rocks council

Harare City Council has awarded a tender for palisade fencing and refurbishment of Mbare Bus Terminus to a local company when the same work had already been done for free by transport operators recently and the terminus was ready to open. …

Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:06hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Sophie Mokoena flouted SABC procurement processes, in hot water?

Three top news managers at the SABC are facing numerous charges before disciplinary hearings over irregular expenditure of R2.5m involving a foreign news agency and allegations of poor performance.Sunday World can reveal that head of TV ne…

Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 15:24hrs | | by Staff reporter

BCC councillors bribed by Harare parking company, under probe

BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is investigating councillors implicated in a recent bribery junket in the capital to influence the tender process of the city's parking management.Mayor Solomon Mguni and his deputy, Tinashe Kambarami, on Wednes…

Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:15hrs | | by Staff reporter

Alternative currencies still legal tender in Zimbabwe

Legal think tank Veritas says the use of alternative currencies remains legal as Statutory Instruments (SIs) 32 or 33 of 2019 do not prohibit their use for pricing, recording debts, accounting and settlement of transactions.Both SIs 32 and…

Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter

$100m Zesa tender scam raises stink

IRREGULAR tender procedures coupled with a lax accounting system, among other factors, have delayed the completion of the US$100,4 million prepayment and smart metering project the power utility, Zesa, rolled out, a latest report from the …

Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 05:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

'Terminate Chivayo tender'

THE Zimbabwe Power Company must immediately terminate it's contract with Intratrek as one of its directors, Mr Wicknell Chivayo, has a criminal record and does not qualify to be a managing director of a company registered in Zimbabwe, legi…

Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe sets record straight on cancelled highway tender

Cabinet took a decision to terminate the contract for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare Highway on March 13, 2018 and instructed the Attorney-General, Advocate Prince Machaya, to furnish the President with the mechanisms of effectin…

Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 06:47hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter

ZACC launches probe into ZEC tender scam

THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched an investigation into the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) over massive corruption, allegedly committed during the 2013 referendum and harmonised elections, which could end up …

Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Egodini project to be cancelled

THE much hyped project to rehabilitate Basch Street Terminus commonly known as Egodini and turn it into a regional public transport hub and shopping mall, hangs in the balance after Bulawayo councillors tabled a motion to cancel the tender…

Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 10:32hrs | | by Staff reporter

Wicknell Chivayo's power tender cancelled?

The Gwanda solar project has been taken over by the Zimbabwe Power Company after Wicknell Chivayo's firm failed to deliver.Energy Minister, Samuel Undenge told parliamentarians in Vic Falls that Chivayo's Intratek Zimbabwe was paid over $5…

Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter

Implicating Tsvangirai's children meant to taint his name

We note with concern that the State-media has been unrelenting in its plot to malign and soil the Tsvangirai name through a smear campaign implicating the MDC leader's children in trumped-up charges of corruption.The false story in the lat…

Published: 31 May 2017 at 10:04hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka

Emhlangeni suburb development to be affected by tender issues

THE Government has instructed all local authorities to ensure that all works within their jurisdiction be it infrastructural development, service delivery, Private Public Partnerships and joint ventures go through a tender system rather th…

Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 09:28hrs | 1 | by Vusumuzi Dube

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 been unearthed at Bulawayo City Counci…

Published: 12 Jul 2015 at 09:36hrs | 3 | by Vusumuzi Dube and Lungile Tshuma

Tender for cleaning services to ZIMRA Kariba Border Post

Tenders must be enclosed in sealed envelopes and endorsed on the outside with the ADVERTISED tender number, the description, the closing date and must be posted in time to be sorted into Post Office Box number CY 408, Causeway or delivered…

Published: 25 Jul 2012 at 16:20hrs | | by Zimra

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