With elaborate orchestration and the financial backing of business allies such as Kudakwashe Tagwirei and Wicknell Chivayo Mnangagwa's political fixers ensured the (ZANU-PF) conference overwhelmingly endorsed the President's ‘2030 Agenda' leaving him free to pick a successor at a time of his choosing...

Chiwenga – a retired army general who led the 2017 revolt that ousted Mugabe – accuses Tagwirei of buying loyalty within ZANU-PF for himself and Mnangagwa naming key benefactors: Wicknell Chivayo Pedzai ‘Scott' Sakupwanya and Dilesh Nguwaya...

At the Munhumutapa Day celebrations on 15 September marking Mnangagwa's birthday Wicknell Chivayo gave each of the 10 provincial chairs a 2025 Toyota Land Cruiser and $100 000 in cash...

The move was widely seen as an attempt to contain Tagwirei's influence – particularly as vehicles donated by social media influencer Wicknell Chivayo were reportedly exempt...

Other allegations involve abusing the presidential title in development projects profiting from the expensive Zimbabwe e-passport (benefitting Tagwirei and Emmerson ​Mnangagwa Junior) and the US$100 million Zimbabwe Electoral Commission fraud by Wicknell Chivayo (Dispatches 29/10/24 Opposition cries foul over elections contract to firm in graft probe)...

He also became close to the flamboyant multi-millionaire Wicknell Chivayo...

But recently Chiwenga has stepped up criticism of Mnangagwa chastising the ‘tenderpreneurs' around him including the flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo at a funeral in January (AC Vol 66 No 4 Tanks roll as Mnangagwa tries to extend his rule)...

Vice-President General Constantino Chiwenga has lambasted the multi-millionaires close to the Mnangagwa family such as Wicknell Chivayo...

Wicknell Chivayo Intratrek's Managing Director was arrested on corruption charges in 2018 then acquitted in 2019...