Vice President Constantino Chiwenga reportedly cancelled a US$2 billion tender awarded to South African firm Khato Holdings for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Victoria Falls highway while President Emmerson Mnangagwa was on leave as a rift between the two reportedly widens.
This was revealed by the Zimbabwe Independent newspaper in a story published on Friday.
Sources close to the publication said the deal that Mnangagwa signed with the South African construction giant when he was on a crusade of inviting foreign investors was terminated when the Zanu PF leader was on an annual vacation.
Mnangagwa resumed duty on February 5 after attending an Africa Union Summit in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
The Zimbabwe Independent said the multi-billion-dollar project was expected to boost regional trade as it connects four countries — Zimbabwe, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Botswana.
It further reported that the project was also expected to culminate in the construction of additional infrastructure.
It is further reported that, prior to the cancellation of the tender by Chiwenga, Katho Holdings through its subsidiaries, Khato Civils and South Zambezi had won tender rights for the development of the road on a Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis.
A memorandum of agreement between Zimbabwe and the joint venture was subsequently signed in April 2019 after which a letter of appointment followed.
Chiwenga allegedly wielded the axe on the South African firm citing lack of progress on the project. It is said that the move left the whole cabinet divided.
Sources said Khato Holdings had already completed review and bankable feasibility studies before Chiwenga pulled the rug from under its feet.
The giant company is also believed to be willing to take the legal route to fight to retain the rights.
The entity is linked to influential Malawian billionaire Simbi Phiri.
Yozodini
Ayikhale kunini silindile
Arguing with a fools only proves there are two
He dd well
Croocks
Ane dzungu murume uyu. Akamboita fired all the nurses within days of acting as president.
Ava
😂 😂 Munangagwa and Chiwenga they are brothers they will never fight find something to report not this nuesence
Dennis Kachere changamuka, Bulawayo bomb it was Chiwenga aiming ED, then Chiwenga got poisoned later.
Ephraim Makosa let me tell you something you think l support Zanu pf but kubva kudhara vanhu vanoti Hee ED naChiwenga havawirirane there is no proof for that and were did people get that information
Dennis Kachere u wont easily see it becoz zanu is their vehicle of looting. There has been many unexplained death in zanu becoz they do it hideously.
Ephraim Makosa chiwenga put ED pachigaro….hapana hushamwari hunopfuura ipapo
Marcus Major hahaha they had a deal which he is now renegging on. He wanted to kill all the coup generals but Chiwenga narrowly survived.
Marcus Major wapedza good analyst
Ephraim Makosa l don’t l gree with you. there is no line between ED and Chiwenga find other information not this one
Haiwa. Rift kudii sei muchingouya nenyaya dzekunyepa every time
Mike Chimuseu Bob akarohwa chekuseri vanhu muchingoti inyaya dzekunyeba kkkkk
Norbert Emmanuel Dube but dzekuti Mnangagwa na Chiwenga vanonetsana inhema
Mike Chimuseu kkkkk munotamba mese here zvekusvika pakuva reverera nhy bro …I politics idzi wanguda
Norbert Emmanuel Dube it happened patakamboenda kuna election 2018. Vanhu vaka laxer vachinzi Mnangagwa na Chiwenga vari kunetsana. Hazviko zviya
Mike Chimuseu the is no permanent friends or enemies in politics rule number one but each and every one is there to hunt for a better position than the current one
Mike Chimuseu Vana tumbuyu tibvirei apo. This is politics and things don’t just happen in one week or month month. Just wait and see kana one of them akaresva kuratamba tsoro yake, ndopachinoputika. Just to take you back little bit, those generals who died in 2020/21 vachinzi vafa neCovid it was a lie. They were eliminated by Mnangagwa’s vampires.
Marova Dzinhi padako pako tumbuyu ndimai vako. Muromo mandigwabvura beche regwavava. Moda kuita kunge moziva stereki. Urimbwa🙄
Mike Chimuseu I’m not trying to know something, I know all the battles going on in Zanupf. Saka relax young man 🥴
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Ipai maTeacher mari vana vedu vadzidze imi vana kamba imi
Because he want to award his friends
its bcz is in Matebeleland
Musade kuti varaidza nekutifadza nenhema. Kubvira kudhara tichingonzi varikunetsana
There should be more to this cancelled tender. A scramble gone wrong!
Anambwa
Rivhorusheni
Leave iye akatoinda ku Moza
They want to give the tender to Tagwirei ….corruption in Zimbabwe
Khato is a company owned by phiri from Malawi