A South African company linked to controversial Zimbabwean “businessman” Wicknell Chivayo charged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) more than US$1.2 million for an HP server that costs only about US$4,000.
The revelations follow a fallout between Chivayo and business partners Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe.
Reports indicate that Chivayo won contracts of up to US$40 million with ZEC in the run-up to the August 2023 general elections for the provision of tents, electronic devices, biometric hardware and software, ink, and training among others.
Mpofu and Chimombe, who are demanding US$10 million in lost earnings from Chivayo, have released damaging information on him, including a deal involving the South African firm, Ren Form.
According to The NewsHawks, ZEC, in February 2023 initiated a procurement process and handpicked Chivayo and his partners to supply key electoral materials.
Chivayo, in collaboration with Chimombe and Mpofu, through Better Brands Security (Pvt) Ltd, owned by Scott Sakupwanya, entered into an agreement with Ren-Form CC, on 13 February 2023 to participate in Zimbabwe’s election tenders.
It is alleged that in cahoots with Ren-Form officials, Chivayo later fraudulently amended the agreement to remove his fellow business partners and grabbed the money for himself, 66% of the payments.
The parties agreed that Ren-Form would invoice and receive payments from ZEC, before depositing Better Brands’ portion into a South African bank account, and this left Chimombe and Mpofu livid.
Documents and invoices from the deal are leaked into the public domain showing that the South African company supplied ZEC with an HP Proliant DL380 Gen 10 server. On the invoice, the company quoted $1,264,865.
The same server costs $4,695 on Amazon, showing that Chivayo overcharged ZEC by more than 1,264,000 for the server.
Lawyer Tino Chinyoka said the money “stolen” in the deal should be recovered. He wrote on X:
To the ignoramuses at ZACC and the NPA and we speak here without sarcasm or hidden meanings: selling a $5000 thing for 1 point chakuti million Yuwesi is fraud and usury. Definitely prosecutable. The money should be recovered. Even if it means reclaiming it from car sales who will no doubt know where to reclaim their cars from.
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Njabulo at libertyatliberty · 9 months ago
South Africa has just been recolonised.Article (comment,in summary) by Njabulo email libertyatatliberty at gmail dot com. Neo-colonialism has just taken place in South Africa. The Boers have recolonised SA.All the lives lost fighting to remove them from power were lost for nothing.Madiba must be turning in his grave.The new renaissance evinsaged by Madiba is no longer going to be seen.Madiba ,OT ,Chris Honey and others all suffered for nothing.The Soweto uprising marks no significance in African history now.What a big shame.
LAND QUESTION IN SA.
There will no longer be any progress in taking the land back in SA.The Boers will now make laws that will make that difficult to happen.Cyril has been installed in that position with the support of the Boers so as to be used stop the other African countries from complaining.What was fought for ,”COLLECTIVELY “ by our African forebearers and/or African countries has all amounted to nothing.What a big shame. Oh “CRY THE BELOVED MOTHERLAND”.
INEQUALITIES.The conspicuous inequalities that date back from time immemorial ,in SA ,have now just been perpetuated.The "EGALITARIAN" country envisaged by Madiba,will not be witnessed in SA,as Boers have been restored to their former status.We have seen videos of white Boer supremacists ill-treating the black folk in SA,all that will be now excerbated by the new unpalatable state of affairs.All what was bequathed to us by our forebearers has been retaken again.Apatheid is being perpetuated.It is now feasible for a new "STATE" called "THE REPUBLIC OF CAPETOWN" to be established.This has always been the wish of the Boers.
By Njabulo email libertyatliberty at gmail dot com.
zw · 9 months ago
nonsense, if sa has been recolonised they are just following Zim yakatorwa kare kare nemachina nemarussians in exchange for medical treatment for the elite
ama 2k musharukwa · 9 months ago
*By Hopewell Chin'ono*
Zimbabwe is a crime scene where we move from one scandal to another.
The media has been exposing corruption for years, but the political actors do nothing about it.
Corruption is a political matter; the media just exposes it and has no power to do anything beyond that.
Exposing corruption in today’s Zimbabwe has become an entertainment exercise unless we have an opposition that acts on these scandals and makes the price of corruption high for the enablers in government.
I have said this before and I will say it again: unless Zimbabweans and their opposition are ready to go on the streets, let us talk about football and music.
ZANUPF will never change unless Zimbabweans give it a reason to change. ZANUPF is a criminal enterprise, you can’t appeal to the conscience of a criminal.
The media will keep exposing corruption, but if there is no opposition to act on it, it simply means Zimbabweans have accepted that Zimbabwe is a crime scene run by ZANU-PF, which is a criminal cartel, and they will do nothing about it!
When the Gold Mafia scandal happened, the same thing happened again, a lot of social media commentary while the opposition is dozing!
When you ask them, the leaders and their supporters say, “You too are opposition.”
Yes, I am opposed to ZANU-PF’s corrupt rule, but I am not an opposition leader. Those who put their hands up for that job must do what opposition leaders elsewhere do when there is a crisis, LEAD!
The fact that this is not happening sadly means that we have opportunistic political parasites who use the opposition as a vehicle for elections and then disappear.
How else do you explain an opposition that takes seats in the terraces while a nation is being pillaged daily since November 2017?
Why are they in parliament if they can’t bring these things up and become relentless in pushing them daily?
Citizens end up asking journalists and social media influencers to do the job of politicians, to advocate against corruption.
Only Fadzayi has her hand up, yet you voted for all these guys. Where are they?
As for me, don’t call my name unless you are ready to go into the streets to protest and petition the government, anything else is a waste of time and that is what ZANUPF wants, for us to waste our time with acres of social media commentary which amounts to nothing.
Elections don’t work, the police and the judiciary are captured, so the only option left are the streets which are actually legal and constitutional.
Tweeting is a waste of time if you want real change and if you want corruption to stop!
VaBhomba · 9 months ago
Kana muchida kudashurwa s**** nemberi pindai mustreet kuno Hakuzi ku America munodashurwa dashurwa