Zimbabwe: ZPC Trusts Chivayo With Gwanda Solar Project Again – Gives Him Two Year Ultimatum

THE Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) has given shadowy character Wicknell Chivayo’s Intratek a revised deal for its US$172 million Gwanda Solar Project, eight years after it bungled work and failed to lay a single panel.

ZPC has given Chivayo a 24-month ultimatum with discussions between government and Intratek now focused on price.

The Gwanda Solar Project, then a grand idea to build a 300 hectare solar farm in the southern parts of Zimbabwe, has remained a stain on both government after Chivayo’s…