Published: 18 June 2018

The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, which is battling to sanitise a stinky 25-year lease agreement with a South African company, has approached the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning to have the irregular arrangement restructured under the Joint Venture Unit.

This comes after ZimParks had violated State tender procedures in awarding a long lease for a total of 20 of the authority's premium lodges in Victoria Falls to Adage Safaris of South Africa, an anomaly picked by the then State Procurement Board (SPB).

The State tenders regulatory body, which was last year renamed Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (PRAZ), fined Zimparks $900 for the offence and ordered it to cancel the agreement, but this instruction has not been obeyed due to legal complications.

Zimparks was ordered to end the flirtation with Adage after failing to justify how the authority had picked the investor.
- The Sunday Mail