Zim activist engages Hichilema over electoral material supply

SOUTH AFRICA-BASED Zimbabwean activists have written to Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema seeking his intervention and halting of Ren-Form from supplying election material in that country’s by-elections.

This follows after Ren-Form, a South African printing company linked to Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo, s secured a US$14 million contract to print ballot papers for Zambia.

Ren-Form, together with Chivayo, allegedly corruptly got a murky Zimbabwe Election Commission US$40 million tender to supply electoral material for the 2023 general elections, inflating some invoices by up to 235%.

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