Nobody can stop talking about the self-styled knight giving away cars

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Nobody can stop talking about the self-styled knight giving away cars

2025-06-22 01:31:32

Shingai Newca

BBC News, Harari

The BBC is a small bus car car in Harari, with a large appearance for Mr. Wekelle at a long -sleeved green top with Polo players in the top. The vehicle's side plate contains a phrase BBC

“Sir Wekel”, who started as a bus writer for a bus company, has become so famous that his face decorates small taxis

A fascinated pole in Zimbabwe possesses a nation – some of them disturbed some of them, before his habit of giving up cars as well as fillings of cash for those who consider them patriots – until they are presented to those who have not met before.

Mercedes-Benzes, Toyota SUVs, Range Rovers are the favorite Winkelvin Chevyu vehicles, whose number ranges from music stars, the Gospel in the heels, church leaders, and those loyal to the Ruler’s Zano-Bfta Party.

The controversial young man 44 is the same as part of Royal Abyad Royce and has a fleet of personal luxury cars, some of which also began to abandon It also occurs in newer models.

For years, “Sir Wicknell”, as he calls himself, loves to boast of his wealth via Instagram – the details of the popular newspapers – but while he is open to how to spend his money, he is less than that on how he was scrutinizing the source of his wealth in a country where life is a daily conflict.

Last year or so, his social media account was also drowned in posts about his donations.

They follow a similar pattern: A picture of a shiny car with bound balloons – Sometimes with the big bow on the hood – accompanied by a congratulatory message to a person with instructions about the place he must collect, usually from one of the luxury car dealers he uses in the capital, Harari.

“Please go and watch Victor at Mestisite Motors, where the cost of the new CV is paid for 2025,” he told the new newspaper, Range Rwing Autopocard, who is fully paid for assembly. Best music jah Prayzah last monthAdding that $ 150,000 (111,000 pounds) cash was also waiting for.

“This is just a small symbol of my gratitude for your tremendous contribution to Zimbabwe and Denic’s music in uniting thousands of people through music, preaching to peace, preaching to love and unity preaching in every song.”

The size of “general gifts” has become almost grated – it even re -spreading comic aimals on this topic. On social media, Zanu-PF accounts were spoiled in praise, which praised charitable work.

Jah Prayzah, wears shades, a black hat and a yellow -like top, as he sings while carrying a microphone in the BBC Studio in 2021

Range Rover was granted to Zimbabwe’s Affronzi Pets, a dedicated painting with his “Waguizi” title

In the private sector, Sir Winkel – as everyone knows about it – expelled the houses and studied scholarships for the followers of its Apostolic Church, the Zionist Christian Church, known as their white clothes and the open -air worship.

The quietly operative and heavy businessman symbolizes the growing “flexible culture” in Zimbabwe – the desire to flash the person’s wealth personally and through the Internet.

“Jumping and spending money is just some of my hobbies,” Written in 2013When it started for the first time on Instagram, next to a hotel cart full of its purchases.

This was followed after a long time By quip: “Damn being rich is a headache sometimes” and a picture of a group of wide shoes where he tried to decide whether to wear a pair of Louis Vuittons or Salvatore Ferragamos.

Thus, with Dubai, New York, Paris, London, and commercial trips to Johannesburg, Shanghai and New Delhi – continued, and recently among his new private publications.

He also loves to show his proximity to power – published pictures of himself with the politicians, from the late Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Emerson Manangagua succeeded him Recently, other African leaders are like Tanzania Samia Soloho Hassan and Kenya William Roto.

“He is very practical with his business transactions, on the ground and keeps the tabs on how to spend every cine.”

“It is clear that he is politically protected,” he said.

In the cry of chaos, late British mercenary and coup Simon ManThe former British army officer said in his memoirs that he was imprisoned in the Chikorubian prison in Zimbabwe, that his “well -learned” colleague warns him not to criticize Zano PF.

The couple was in the same cell mass -Man spent four years for his role in a failed coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea in 2004 and Shivhio for a few years of fraud.

“In Africa, the unwanted gift is very strong,” Man quoted as saying.

Among them they paid cigarettes for the services of the prisoner, who served 94 years for armed theft, to wash their clothes. Man said that Sheviio insisted on reference to him as “servants.”

AFP/Getty Images Simon Mann, leader of the group of foreigners who were arrested in Zimbabwe, was photographed to plan a coup in Equatorial Guinea, in 2004 in the prison square. He has wired oval glasses, Bird - like other prisoners seen in the background, wear khaki. An officer wearing a gray costume can also be seen with a peak hat in the background.AFP/Getty Images

While he was in prison on charges of fraud, Winkel Chievio gave friendship with the British mercenaries and coup institution Simon Man, where she gave advice to him

The two remained friends with walking and Winkel Publish a smiling picture for them together In 2013 – the year that appears to be a turning point for him.

It was when, in addition to moving to Instagram, his company, Intratrek Zimbabwe, and a Chinese company with a tender for building a solar power plant worth $ 172.8 million.

But the project later became involved in the allegations of fraud – the court records several years after that Intratrek had been paid for starting work in a 100 -megawatt factory in GWANDA but it failed to deliver as expected for the ZPC ZPC.

He in turn sued ZPC to cancel his connection to the conflict. He won this issue and was It was subsequently disavowed from all criminal charges.

Sir Wiknil, shy media, talked about his hatred for journalists and refused to polite my request to conduct an interview.

But on a rare picnic on a radio program for breakfast last year, he was asked directly about how to earn his money.

In bush tones, he said that his main work is government tenders guaranteed with foreign partners in the fields of renewable energy, engineering purchases, construction and energy. He also had works in Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania.

Late last year, his company is imc communications It was licensed as an Elon Musk’s Starlink partner Satellite Internet service provider.

On Instagram, it was so much More screaming about “Midas touch” – He said it is “impossible” to work hard. He also attributes his success as the “millionaire who makes himself” to his modest background that originated in the satellite town of Harari in Chitonguza, where he struggled with his family after the death of his father when he was 10 years old.

He tends to re -publish “throwing back” images to late adolescence when he got a family friend as a job writer at a bus company. “I remember I was the only one in my life with a cell phone in Chitongoza,” He said about his arduous morals.

A man reads the standard newspaper from early May with the image of Lukelil Sheviio stands between the President of Kenya William Roto (L) and the President of Zimbabwe Emerson Manangua (PBUH)

Anxiety arose about Wiknil Chevyu’s close ties with strong politicians – the picture here in May between President Roto and President Manangagua

He was a supporter of Zanu-PF advertiser, whose success was previously attributed to the party’s empowerment policy, which was launched in 2013 and forced all companies to abandon economic control over the black Zimbweans.

Some see it as a successful example of this specialization policy, as it creates a new group of black businessmen, but others believe that some of his wealth is the result of corruption and mysterious relationships with those who deny it strongly.

In February, he was asked about the tendency of Sir Wekel to abandon the cars, and President Manangua refused to accuse that the businessman was acting as a front man for him. “Where will I get the money to give it? … You cannot bother me from a charitable person,” he told reporters.

The Anti -Corruption Committee in Zimbabwe did Launching an inquiry Last year, after South Africa’s non -profit investigation investigation that Shivu had received many millions of dollars as a tender to provide election materials to the Zimbabwe electoral committee (ZEC) in 2023.

The scandal swallowed when a leaked voice message was alleged that Mr. Shivu was also talking about the deal also the involvement of other businessmen through their holding of their failure to obtain kicks he promised, indicating that many deals were in our “pipeline” in the fist of a deputy.

It was amazing repercussions. ZEC denied any dealing with Mr. Shivhio or other menThey all denied these allegations – and no year has occupied Zacc.

Mr. Shivhio said the sound should be a deep fake, created by advanced technology. He also apologized to the president for any impression that the voice was created that the first family was corrupt.

But it was not long after that, Businessmen mentioned in the voice were arrested and charged with offending about 7 million dollars in a separate case. They deny the accusations, associated with the tender of the presidential goat scheme, and spent nearly a year in prison pending the start of the trial.

Nurphoto/Getty Images is three members of the Apostolic Church sitting with their legs in front of them, and their hand surpassed their rolls to receive blessings from their street colleagues who put their hands on their heads. They are collected outside in a rocky area in Harari and everyone wears white clothes who expect a child to look at and another child carried by a man in the background.Nurphoto/Getty Images

Wicknell Chivayo is a member of a Royal Church, whose members gather abroad to worship, wear white

This week there was more HOO-HA about the supposed leakage of a document from March about an alleged contract worth $ 500 million with the name of Mr. Chivayo listed as director of a company to supply cancer treatment equipment to the Zimbabwe government for a period of four years.

Anger is the fact that if this is true, it does not have a general tender. The government and Mr. Sheviio rejected allegations, noting that the alleged contract describing it as a significant evidence.

“With regard to a full set of opposition clothes for cooperation and a noise about a fake document that is not signed, it is an embarrassing despair for political importance,” Mr. Shivu said.

Two father, She has not been married for a long time At an elaborate wedding with more than 15,000 guests, he often said he was not interested in becoming politician.

For him, it is all about money – and he says that he is determined to see “haters”. He pretended by his plane recentlyHe was wearing a intermittent suit with the giant “B” decorated with his clothes, saying: “Note that” B “is the inevitable situation of the billionaire on my way against all difficulties.”

But his close relations with the authority, which allowed him to become rich, means that he will always fly near the controversy.

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