{"id":95600,"date":"2024-06-22T10:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T08:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/wicknell-chivayo-will-be-forgiven-but-his-colleagues-will-suffer-says-mzembi"},"modified":"2024-06-22T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T12:09:18","slug":"wicknell-chivayo-will-be-forgiven-but-his-colleagues-will-suffer-says-mzembi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/wicknell-chivayo-will-be-forgiven-but-his-colleagues-will-suffer-says-mzembi","title":{"rendered":"Wicknell Chivayo Will Be Forgiven But His Colleagues Will Suffer, Says Mzembi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Self-exiled former cabinet minister, Walter Mzembi, says ZANU PF sympathiser Wicknell Chivayo, who is at the centre of a US$40 million Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) tender scam, will not be prosecuted or ostracized by the \u201csystem\u201d but his erstwhile colleagues who turned against him are in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Chivayo\u2019s former business partners, Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu have accused him of fraudulently changing their contract with South African company Ren-Form and Better Brands to supply voting material to ZEC in the run-up to the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>Chimombe and Mpofu are also suspected to have leaked Chivayo\u2019s voice notes in which he claimed to have captured President Emmerson Mnangagwa.<\/p>\n<p>Chivayo accuses Chimombe and Mpofu of employing advanced Artificial Intelligence to fabricate the voice note, making it appear as if he self-incriminated.<\/p>\n<p>Mzembi contends that the ZANU PF Youth League and certain bureaucrats, including Information Ministry spokesperson Nick Mangwana, \u201cpunched above their weight\u201d when they criticised Chivayo after the expose\u0301. He wrote on X:<br \/>\nWC (Wicknell Chivayo) is not going anywhere, the last fortnight\u2019s episodes just helped ED to understand who is standing with him and his choices to the end. The saga assumed political dimensions steeped in factional politics.<\/p>\n<p>Chivayo will be counselled and will change his engagement modus with ED to a subtle &amp; respectful distance, it\u2019s too risky to withdraw him from association, the stakes are too high; in my books, he has the credentials of an Ambassador at Large already and his continental footprint perhaps international attests to that.<\/p>\n<p>ED won\u2019t embarrass himself or him to his colleagues that he was mixing them with the wrong James Bond so he will stand by him as some victim element of our toxic politics. It\u2019s on public record that our politics is toxic so its a convenient explanation to other constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>WC will be forgiven at least in the Zim jurisdiction but his colleagues may sing the blues as a compromise&#8230; after all, according to the system, they torched a situation they could have resolved in boardrooms and sucked in everyone else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Zimbabwe Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Self-exiled former cabinet minister, Walter Mzembi, says ZANU PF sympathiser Wicknell Chivayo, who is at the centre of a US$40 million Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) tender scam, will not be prosecuted or ostracized by the \u201csystem\u201d but his erstwhile colleagues who turned against him are in trouble. 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