An attractive tycoon in Zimbabwe has entered a nation – some beggars, others are worried – from their habit of removing cars with cash, which he presents patriotism – even presents them to people whom they have never met.

Mercedes-Benjes, Toyota SUVs, are vehicles of Wikenal Chivyo for Range Rovers recipients, who are loyal to music stars, down-a-Heel Gospel singers, footballers, church leaders and ruling Zanu-PF party.

The controversial 44 -year -old is a partial for a white Royals Royce itself and is a fleet of individual luxury cars, some of which have also started giving away As he finds in the new model,

For years “Sir Vikanal”, as he calls himself, prefers to boast about his rich through Instagram – the details of the lap up to the tabloids – but when he is open about how he spends his money, how he makes it because he makes it because he examines the source of his wealth in a country where he makes it.

In the last year, either his social media account has also woken up with posts about his donation.

They follow a similar pattern: A picture of a shining car with a balloon – Sometimes with a large bow on your bonnet – someone is accompanied by a message of congratulations with instructions, where they should gather it, usually from various luxury car dealerships which he uses in the capital, Harare.

He said, “Please go and look at Victor in Exclusive Motors, your brand New 2025 Range Rover Autobiography is fully ready for payment and collection.” Last month top music composer J.It was also awaited by adding that $ 150,000 (£ 111,000) to cash.

“This is a small token for your immense contribution to your immense contribution to your patriotism to unite thousands of people through Zimbabwe’s music and music, propagate peace, preach love and propagate unity in every song.”

The amount of “public gifting” has become almost frenzied – he also removes comical memes about it. On social media, Zanu-PF accounts praised him, praising him, praising him.

Private Sir Vikanal – as everyone knows him – has studied homes and scholarships for followers of his epostolic church, The Seon Christian Church, known for his white clothes and worships out.

Gradually spoken, heavy businessmen symbolize Zimbabwe’s growing “Flex Culture” -the desire to shine someone’s wealth in the person and online.

“$ hopping and spending money are some of my hobbies,” He wrote in 2013When he first started on Instagram, a hotel filled with his shopping next to the trolley.

Not done for a long time after this Pinchly: “Damn is rich many times headache” and as a picture of his huge shoes collection, he tried to decide whether to wear a pair of Louis Wuiton or Salvatore Ferrgamos.

And so it continued, with trade trips to Dubai, New York, Paris, London and Johannesburg, Shanghai and New Delhi – and recently post about your new private jet.

He also likes to demonstrate his proximity to power – posting pictures of himself with politicians, from the late Zimbabwe’s late President Robert Mugabe and His successor Amsarson Mangagwa Recently, other African leaders like Samia Suluhu Hasan of Tanzania And Kenya’s William Ruto,

A businessman said, “He is working with his businesses with a lot of hands, is very high on the ground and how to spend every percentage, he keeps an eye on it.”

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

In destruction, late British hire and coup that Simon MannThe memoir of the 2011 memoir of his time in Zimbabwe’s Chikurubi maximum prison, former British Army official, said his “well educated” fellow prisoner Vikanal did not warn him to criticize Zanu-PF.

The pair was in the same cell block – the value was four years for their role in an attempt of a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea in 2004 and a few years for fraud.

“Unwanted gifts in Africa are largely powerful,” Maan said to him – a prediction comment.

Among them, he paid for a cigarette for the services of a prisoner, serving 94 years for armed robbery, for washing his clothes. Mann said that Chivo insisted on referring him as his “butler”.

Both remained friends with Sir Vikanal Posting one of them smiling together In 2013 – a year that seems to have a significant twist for him.

This was when taken on Instagram, his company intracracic Zimbabwe and a Chinese firm won a tender to build a solar power plant of $ 172.8m.

But the project later got involved in fraud allegations – the court record said several years later that Intrectic was made an advance payment to start work on the 100mw plant in Guanda, but failed to distribute as expected to the state -owned Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC).

He sued the ZPC to cancel his contact on the dispute. He won that case and was Later acquitted all criminal allegations,

Sir Vikanal Media is embarrassed, he has spoken about his dislike towards journalists and politely rejected my request for an interview.

But last year on a rare outing at a breakfast radio show, he was directly asked how he made his money.

In the bashful tone, he said that his main business was safe government tenders with foreign partners in the areas of renewable energy, engineering procurement, construction and power projects. He said that he also had businesses in Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania.

Last year end, his company IMC communication License was obtained as a partner for Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellite internet service provider.

On Instagram, she has been a lot Brash more about your “Midas Touch” – Saying that he is a “Husler” who works hard. He is also credited with his success as “self-made millionaire” for his humble background, which is increasing Harare’s Satellite Township, where his family struggled after his father’s death at the age of 10.

He goes to repost the “throw-back” photos in his late adolescence when he got a job as a wage clerk in a bus company through a family friend. “I remember that I was only one of my age with a cell phone in Chitungviza,” He has said about his hardworking morality,

He has earlier blamed his success for the party’s empowerment policy, an Evaid Zanu-PF supporter, which was launched in 2013 and forced all companies to prevent economic control for Black Zimbabwe.

Some people see him as a successful example of this indigenization policy, which creates a new class of black traders, but others believe that some of his wealth is the result of corruption and inaccessible relations with those in power – which he strictly denies.

In February, Sir was questioned about the prediction to give the cars of Vikanal, President Mangagwa dismissed an allegation that the businessman was working as his frontman. He said, “Where will I get money to give him? … You cannot bother me about someone who is philanthropist,” he told reporters.

Anti -Zimbabwe Corruption Commission (ZACC) did Start an inquiry Last year, after the South African investigative non-profit organization Open Secrets, Chivo allegedly received a wind of millions of dollars as a tender facilitator to supply electoral materials to the Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) in 2023.

When a leaked audio message also implicated two other traders while talking about a leaked audio message of Mr. Chivayo, many more deals were in the pipeline, “we keep them in the pipeline”.

The result was fantastic. ZEC denied any behavior with Mr. Chivayo or other menAll of which denied the allegations – and not one year on ZACC.

Mr. Chivayo said that the audio must have been a deep fake, which was born through sophisticated technology. He apologized to the President for any perception, the audio may have created that the first family was corrupt.

But not after a long time, Two businessmen mentioned in the audio were arrested and accused of abuse around $ 7m in a separate case.They deny the allegations, a President’s goat scheme connected to the tender, and spent almost a year in jail waiting to spend a year in jail.

Since March this week, an alleged leak on a document has been more about an alleged $ 500M contract with the name of Mr. Chivayo, which has been listed as a company director to supply cancer treatment equipment to the Zimbabwe government for four years.

The anger is on the fact that if this is true, it did not go through a public tender process. The government and Mr. Chivyo have dismissed the allegations, indicating that the so -called contract has been postponed as evidence.

“There is a shameful frustration for political relevance to the team up to the team up to a whole group of opposition organizations and make noise about an unclaimed fake documents,” Mr. Chivayo said,

Father of two, Not remarried for a long time In a wide wedding ceremony with over 15,000 guests, he is often said that he is not interested in becoming a politician.

For him all this is about money – and he says that he is firm to see his “hatred”. RecentlyHe wore a tracksuit with a huge “B” on his tracksuit, saying: “Note that ‘B’ is the position of unavoidable billionaire who are coming in my way against all obstacles.”

But his close relationship with power, which has allowed him to become rich, means that he will always fly close to the dispute.