Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei (Queen Bee)

Business kingpin Kudakwashe Tagwirei under United States sanctions since August aims to expand his commanding stake in Zimbabwe's gold industry – and could end up taking control of the country's sole gold refinery and marketer Africa Confidential understands...

FUEL MINES AND BANKS – THE TAGWIREI METHOD Kudakwashe Tagwirei has built up his wealth in large part through a long-standing partnership with major commodities trader Trafigura which has been trying to distance its operations from him as he faces international commercial and political sanctions...

Mnangagwa's favourite oligarch Kudakwashe Tagwirei now under United States sanctions will face more constraints in finding foreign capital (AC Vol 61 No 17 Inside the state capture project)...

Guvamatanga is a close ally of Kudakwashe Tagwirei owner of the Sakunda oil trading and agribusiness conglomerates and with a large stake in Landela mining...

Controversy surrounds Zimbabwean oligarch Kudakwashe Tagwirei who had dominated fuel imports into the country through an alliance with Swiss commodity trader Trafigura (AC Vol 61 No 17 Inside the state capture project)...

If the leaked audio recording of his telephone call with ruling party acolyte Temba Mliswa is any guide businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei's role in government is stronger than ever despite the United States' imposition of sanctions against him and serial exposés of his politically connected deals (AC Vol 61 No 5 Oil guns and politics)...

The decision by the United States Treasury on 5 August to sanction Mnangagwa's business ally Kudakwashe Tagwirei chief executive of Sakunda Holdings and majority owner of Landela Mining Ventures raises the stakes (AC Vol 61 No 5 Oil guns and politics)...

Apart from failing to boost productivity substantially – due to poor distribution of seeds and fertiliser as much as the latest regional drought – the Command Agriculture Programme has become a formidable source of patronage for Mnangagwa's ally Kudakwashe Tagwirei owner of the Sakunda group of companies working with Swiss-based Trafigura to import fuel and well as running its own agricultural projects (AC Vol 60 No 23 Cashing in on the crisis)...

Makamba's death caused panic in ruling circles and oil importer Sakunda Holdings which is owned by Kudakwashe Tagwirei and is strongly politically connected was secretly mobilised (AC Vol 60 No 23 Cashing in on the crisis)...

Kudakwashe Tagwirei managing director of Sakunda Holdings and business associate of President Emmerson Mnangagwa is at the centre of a new political row...

A week later Sakunda Chief Executive Kudakwashe Tagwirei was seen accompanying President Emmerson Mnangagwa to an international conference in Lyon France...

Among the political cognoscenti Kudakwashe Tagwirei has earned the soubriquet Queen Bee (AC Vol 59 No 22 Trafigura in a tug-of-war)...

Sakunda has a stake in Trafigura Zimbabwe; Kudakwashe Tagwirei Sakunda's chief executive and once close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa was a key enabler of Trafigura's business in Zimbabwe (AC Vol 59 No 22 Trafigura in a tug-of-war)...