Wicknell Chivayo, ZPC/ Minister of Energy and Power Development, Samuel Undenge, Tender Saga Deepens

THE Minister of Energy and Power Development, Samuel Undenge, reportedly pressured the Zimbabwe Power Company to pay Wicknell Chivayo’s Intratek Zimbabwe $5 million without the firm submitting a bank guarantee to protect public funds, it has emerged. This comes as Chivayo yesterday admitted receiving payment without a guarantee as specified in the contract to construct a 100-megawatt solar plant in Gwanda. Chivayo said it was difficult for a local company to raise a bank guarantee…

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Zimbabwe’s Defacto President ‘Grace Mugabe’ Eyeing Life Beyond Mugabe

 Grace Mugabe, arguably now the Defacto president of Zimbabwe continues to flex muscle in a bid to prop up her aged husband  despot President Robert Mugabe in public. She is now regularly seen holding the 91year old’s hand to steady him in public. Mugabe is obviously not the agile young man he once was decades ago, if not nigh to a century . acse proven by his memory lapse episodes in speech giving where he can either jumble…

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Speed and stealth, that Mugabe delt with Moyo shows, the Zanu PF centre of power

Speed and stealth,   that Mugabe  delt with Moyo shows, the Zanu PF  centre of power

There were strong suggestions yesterday that Tuesday’s surprising freezing of voluble Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo from Cabinet could be a precursor to the long-mooted major executive reshuffle – a prospect that has put many ministers on tenterhooks.Well-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday that the “speed and stealth” with which Mugabe had dealt with Moyo not only suggested that “there is one centre of power in Zanu-PF” but also that a major Cabinet reshuffle…

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