How a self-styled knight giving away cars has got people talking

Typhoon flashes in Zimbabwe has a popular people – some are softly alerted – in their habit of giving cars together with wadings in those who consider them patriotics – they even represent them to those who never met them.

Mercedes-Benzes, Toyota SUV, Rovers range Vicknell Chivaio for recipients, moving from music stars, lowered singers in Geel, football players and justifications of the ruling page Zanu-PF.

The controversial 44-year-old is only partial on white Rolls-Royce and has a fleet of personalized luxury cars, also started giving While coming in newer models.

It is “Sir Vicknell”, as it is called, praise with its wealth via Instagram – but while he is opened as he seems to be able to supervise his wealth in the country in the country where life is a daily fight for most people.

Last year or so his social media account was also full of posts on his donations.

They follow a similar form: a photo of a glittering car with balloons tied to it – Sometimes with a large port on its cover – follows a message to congratulations to someone with instructions on where it should collect it, usually from one of the different luxury carbesities used in the capital, basically.

“Please see Victor on excellent engines, your brand new 2025. Range Rover Autobiography is fully paid and ready for billing,” he said Top Musician Jah Praizah last monthAdding to be there and waited 150,000 USD there (111,000 pounds) in cash.

“This is just a small sign of my gratitude for your huge contribution to Zimbabwean music and your patriotism in combining thousands through music, preaching peace, preaching love and preach unity in every song.”

The volume of his “public switch” became almost angry – even put the humorous memes about it. On social media, Zanu-PF accounts broke it into praise, praising his philanthropy.

In Private Sir Vicknell – as everyone knows him – he also pawned houses and studying scholarships of the followers of his apostolic church, Christian Christian, famous for white clothes and worshiped outdoors.

Quiet spoken, a hard-set businessman is to symbolize the growth of Zimbabwe “Fex culture” – the desire to blink one’s wealth in person and online.

“$ jumping and spending money are just some of my hobbies” wrote in 2013 yearsWhen he started on Instagram for the first time, next to the hotel full of purchases.

This followed a non-treadmill after In addition to the quick: “Damn is a rich headache” and a photograph of his huge collection of shoes as she tried to decide whether to wear a couple Louis Vuittons or Salvatore Ferragamos.

And so continued, with Holidays Dubai, New York, Paris, London and Business Travels in Johannesburg, Shanghai and New Delhi – and recently posts about her new private jet.

It also likes to display its proximity proximity – publishing photos with politicians, from Zimbabwe’s late Robert Mugabe President Mugabe and His successor Emmerson Mnangagva to, recently, other African leaders such as Tanzania’s Samia Solution Hassan and Kenya William Ruto.

“It is very practical with its jobs, very on the field and keeps tabs on how each cent is spent”, a businessman who had previously dealt with Mr. Chivaio and asked to remain anonymous, said the BBC.

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

In the crying havoc, late British mercenary and Simon Mann State HolderMemoir Memoir for 2011. year in Zimbabwe’s Maximum Prison, former British Army officer, he said that his “well-educated” fellow Prisoner Wicknell warned that he never criticized Zanu-PF.

The couple was in the same cell block – Mann, who served four years for his role in a failed attempt at the Equatorial Guinea 2004 and Chivaio for several years for fraud.

“In Africa, an unwanted gift is massively powerful,” Mann quoted him as said – seemingly prophetic comment.

Between them, they paid cigarettes for prisoners services, which 94 years for armed robbery, handed over, to work washing. Mann said Chivaio insisted on going on him like their “butler”.

Two other friends with Sir Vicknell Publishing Smiling Photos 2013. years – for years, it seems that it was a turning point for him.

It was, as well as taking in Instagram, his company Intratrak Zimbabwe and the Chinese company won the tender to build a solar power plant worth 172.8 million dollars.

But the project later became involved in the court records to be held in advance to work at 100mV in Guanda, but failed to expect as expected as expected as expected as expected as expected as expected as expected as expected as expected as expected as expected As expected as expected as expected as expected as expected to be expected to be expected as “ZPC) (ZPC) was noted to be paid in advance to begin work to a 100mV plant in Guard.

He in turn sued ZPC due to cancellation of contact over the dispute. Won in that case and it was Later exempted all criminal charges.

Sir Vicknell is shy media, he spoke about his distress of journalists and decidedly refused my interview request.

But at a rare trip to the radio breakfast show last year, it was directly set as he earned his money.

In Ton’s tones, he said that his main job was provided with foreign partners in areas of renewable energy, engineering procurement, construction and current projects. He said he also had companies in Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania.

At the end of last year, his IMC communications company was licensed as partner for Elonon Musk’s Starlink Satellite Internet Provider.

On Instagram, he was a lot more rough about his “Midas Touch” – To say “Hustler” is working hard. He also attributes his success as a “self-made millionaire” to his modest background, growing up in Hature’s satellite cities of Chitungwize, where his family struggled after his father died of 10 years.

He tends to re-set the photos of “throw” on his late teenagers when he got a job as a salary officer at the bus company. “I remember I was my only old man with a mobile phone in Chitungwiza” He told his diligent ethics.

Pre-ordered Pier-Pf, previously attributed to success on the policy of empowering the party launched in 2013. years and forced all companies to cease economic control in Black Zimbabweans.

Some see it as a successful example of this policy of indigenization, creating a new class of black businessmen, but others believe that someone of wealth is the result of corruption and mutual relations with those who have the power – which is fiercely denies.

Convinced in February on the gift of Vicnel’s giving for car, President Mnangagva rejected the charge that the businessman acted like his frontman. “Where would I get the money to give him? … you can’t bother me around someone who is philanthropic,” he told reporters.

The Commission for the Fight against Corruption Zimbabwe (ZACC) is Start the query Last year, after the South Africa, the Non-Profit Organization was opened, alleged that Chivaio received the wind million of dollars as a tender facilitator for the supply of elective materials for the Zimbabwe Election Commission (Zec).

Scandal baloned when the audio message was reportedly leaked. Chivaio to talk about the agreement, they also comforted them to consolidate them two more businessmen, which would not be promised to promised to offer themselves to offer them in the pipeline offer. “

The fall was spectacular. The rabbit denied any matter with Mr. Chivaio or other peopleAll of which they denied allegations – and a year at Zacc did not accuse anyone.

Mr. Chivaio said that the sound must be deeply false, generated through sophisticated technology. He also apologized to the president on any impression that the sound may have created that the first family was damaged.

But not long after that, Two businessmen mentioned in Audio were arrested and charged with the inadmissory of about $ 7 million in a special case. They deny the charges, associated with the tender for the presidential skin and spent almost a year in prison waiting for the trial to begin.

This week there was more Hoo-ha on the assumed curry in relation to the document on the alleged $ 500 million agreement with the name G. Chivaio listed as director of the company for the supply of cancer purification equipment at the Government of Zimbabwe.

Indignation is during the fact that if this is true, it has not been through a public tender process. Government and G. Chivaio rejected the allegations, pointing out that the so-called agreement was subordinated as evidence unsigned.

“For the entire group of tested seductions for this and making noise about an unsigned fake document is a shameful despair for political importance,” Mr. Draga said.

Father two, not a long time again married At a complex wedding ceremony with more than 15,000 guests, it was often said that it was not interested in becoming a politician.

It’s all about money for him – and says she’s determined to see her “haters”. Recently posing to his jetHe was wearing coaching with a giant “B” on his coaches, saying, “Note that” B “is the inevitable status of billionaires that are in my way in my way.”

But his close ties with power, which allowed him, the rich, means that he will always fly close to controversy.