{"id":226202,"date":"2026-03-06T13:20:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/malawi-shadowy-tycoon-in-the-corridors-of-power-who-is-wicknell-chivayo-and-what-is-he-doing-in-malawi\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:20:57","slug":"malawi-shadowy-tycoon-in-the-corridors-of-power-who-is-wicknell-chivayo-and-what-is-he-doing-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/malawi-shadowy-tycoon-in-the-corridors-of-power-who-is-wicknell-chivayo-and-what-is-he-doing-in-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi: Shadowy Tycoon in the Corridors of Power &#8211; Who Is Wicknell Chivayo and What Is He Doing in Malawi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">A controversial Zimbabwean businessman whose name has long stirred debate across Southern Africa has quietly surfaced in Malawi&#8217;s political corridors, appearing alongside both Peter Mutharika and former president Lazarus Chakwera in encounters that are now raising serious questions about the nature of his growing presence in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Wicknell Chivayo, a flamboyant entrepreneur known for his involvement in large infrastructure and energy deals across the region, has been spotted with Malawian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603060122.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial Zimbabwean businessman whose name has long stirred debate across Southern Africa has quietly surfaced in Malawi&#8217;s political corridors, appearing alongside both Peter Mutharika and former president Lazarus Chakwera in encounters that are now raising serious questions about the nature of his growing presence in the country. Wicknell Chivayo, a flamboyant entrepreneur known for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,18483,8344,5028,257,7047,48741,254,21732,50333,421],"class_list":["post-226202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chivayo","tag-corridors","tag-malawi","tag-news","tag-power","tag-shadowy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tycoon","tag-wicknell","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}