{"id":246879,"date":"2026-10-11T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-u-s-5-million-gwanda-solar-project-funds-blown-on-dubai-shoes-america-spending-spree-chivayos-brother\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T09:00:07","slug":"zimbabwe-u-s-5-million-gwanda-solar-project-funds-blown-on-dubai-shoes-america-spending-spree-chivayos-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-u-s-5-million-gwanda-solar-project-funds-blown-on-dubai-shoes-america-spending-spree-chivayos-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: U.S.$5 Million Gwanda Solar Project Funds Blown On Dubai Shoes, America Spending Spree &#8211; Chivayo&#8217;s Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Wicknell Chivayo&#8217;s brother, Joachim, has revealed how the late controversial businessman splashed money meant for the Gwanda solar project, which became the centre of his tenderpreneurship career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">In 2015, Chivayo&#8217;s company, Intratrek, was awarded a tender by the government to construct a 100-megawatt solar energy plant, with the overall deal worth over US$171 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Intratrek was paid US$5 million upfront by the Zimbabwe Power Company as part of the project&#8217;s preparations to get it off the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610090188.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>Wicknell Chivayo&#8217;s brother, Joachim, has revealed how the late controversial businessman splashed money meant for the Gwanda solar project, which became the centre of his tenderpreneurship career. In 2015, Chivayo&#8217;s company, Intratrek, was awarded a tender by the government to construct a 100-megawatt solar energy plant, with the overall deal worth over US$171 million. Intratrek [&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":[258,256,4567,30762,15665,45776,3368,5782,18623,5118,257,6504,11492,4631,254,9063,24650,46004,4686,421],"class_list":["post-246879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-america","tag-blown","tag-brother","tag-chivayos","tag-dubai","tag-funds","tag-gwanda","tag-million","tag-news","tag-project","tag-shoes","tag-solar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spending","tag-spree","tag-u-s-5","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246879","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=246879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246879\/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=246879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}