{"id":244250,"date":"2026-09-13T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zpc-trusts-chivayo-with-gwanda-solar-project-again-gives-him-two-year-ultimatum\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:00:08","slug":"zimbabwe-zpc-trusts-chivayo-with-gwanda-solar-project-again-gives-him-two-year-ultimatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zpc-trusts-chivayo-with-gwanda-solar-project-again-gives-him-two-year-ultimatum\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: ZPC Trusts Chivayo With Gwanda Solar Project Again &#8211; Gives Him Two Year Ultimatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">THE Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) has given shadowy character Wicknell Chivayo&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">ZPC has given Chivayo a 24-month ultimatum with discussions between government and Intratek now focused on price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">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&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609110251.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>THE Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) has given shadowy character Wicknell Chivayo&#8217;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 [&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":[258,256,18483,18623,257,6504,4631,254,55421,9423,6537,4686,421,2294],"class_list":["post-244250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chivayo","tag-gwanda","tag-news","tag-project","tag-solar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trusts","tag-ultimatum","tag-year","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zpc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244250","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=244250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244250\/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=244250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}