POLITICS

Chimombe denies role in US$7.7m goats tender scandal

Businessman Mike Chimombe yesterday took the witness stand in his fraud trial, rejecting allegations that he masterminded a multimillion-dollar scam linked to the Presidential Goats-Pass-On Scheme.Te...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 September 2025

POLITICS

Mpofu distances Chimombe from goats tender scandal

Businessman Moses Mpofu has denied claims linking his associate, Mike Chimombe, to the controversial US$87 million goats tender awarded to Blackdeck Private Limited, the company at the centre of an al...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 September 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

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 "tenderp...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 August 2025

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

ZETDC official in court over 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 t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 August 2025

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Villagers protest secretive timber tender in Zimbabwe

Villagers and local leaders in the Mabale area of Hwange District have voiced outrage over what they describe as a secretive timber harvesting tender awarded to Teak Baron (Pvt) Ltd by the Hwange Rura...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 August 2025

POLITICS

Goat tender fraud trial resumes

The trial of businessmen Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe, accused of defrauding the Government of US$7 million under the Presidential Goat Pass-On Scheme, resumed yesterday with Mpofu outlining the fina...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 August 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

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...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 July 2025

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

Here's who won Zimbabwe govt's biggest road tenders

The Ministry of Transport handed out millions of dollars' worth of contracts for roadworks in the first quarter of the year. Here are some of the biggest winners.Top of the pile? FossilFossil Contract...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

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 Ro...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 July 2025

POLITICS

Chiwenga warns tenderprenuers, 'The day of reckoning is inevitable'

Zimbabwe's Vice President, General (Retired) Constantino Chiwenga, has issued a stern warning to corrupt businesspeople, declaring that their "day of reckoning is undoubtedly coming" as the government...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 June 2025

POLITICS

Tagwirei mocks 'foolish' Zimbabweans who have not won tenders

Prominent businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei ignited controversy on Wednesday after declaring that Zimbabweans who have not secured government tenders are "foolish" - effectively labelling the vast major...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Tagwirei breaks silence on Dema power plant tender

Zimbabwean multi-millionaire tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei has for the first time publicly explained how he secured the highly controversial tender to construct the ill-fated Dema Power Plant project in ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Chamisa berates Chivayo's cancer machines tender

Former opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has sharply criticised the government's decision to award a lucrative tender for cancer treatment machines to Wicknell Chivayo, a known ZANU PF member and busin...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 June 2025

MINING & RETAIL

Zimbabwe moves to tighten mining laws, tenders

The Zimbabwean government has embarked on a renewed legislative and policy overhaul aimed at strengthening mining laws, enhancing transparency in the tendering process, and ensuring the country derive...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 May 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Tender process for Victoria Falls road rehab still underway

The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development has confirmed that the tendering process for the Victoria Falls road rehabilitation project is still ongoing, following the retraction of an i...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 May 2025

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

Bulawayo-Vic Falls road rehab corruption in tender awards exposed

The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development has backtracked on its earlier claim that contractors are already on site to begin rehabilitation of the dilapidated Bulawayo-Victoria Falls R...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 April 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Mangoma nailed over Zesa tender scam

PROCUREMENT and Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) chief executive Nyasha Chizu yesterday said former Energy minister Elton Mangoma violated the Procurement Act by giving a South Korean company a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

$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...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Harare's $32m tender scam, officials' application dismissed

HIGH Court judge Justice Amie Tsanga, has dismissed an application for discharge by former Harare town clerk, Tendai Mahachi, who is charged alongside other officials on allegations of abuse of office...

By Staff reporter | Published: 09 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Chinese eye $3bn Zimbabwe highway tender

CHINESE firm Anhui Foreign Economic Construction (Group) Co Limited (AFECC) could clinch the $3 billion contract to resurface the long-awaited Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway, NewsDay reported.Top ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Gweru faces fire tender shortages

Gweru City Council is operating with three functional fire tenders out of a possible six, a situation that compromises on effective mitigation against loss of human life and property, NewsDay has lear...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 June 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa chides the other 21 'pretenders to the throne'

Although a staggering 23 candidates have put their names forward in a bid to lead Zimbabwe after the July 30 national elections, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa says in reality his only challenge for...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 June 2018

POLITICS

'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...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt floats $59m drug tender

Government has floated a drug tender worth $59 million from the Health Levy, amid revelations that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has increased its foreign currency allocation for the procurement ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Chivayo - Zesa tender begs investigation

The Mines and Parliamentary Committee has recommended that Zesa reclaim its money from businessman, Wicknell Chivayo and that the two parties be investigated for the manner the tender was awarded.The...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 June 2018
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