Harare – Prominent Zimbabwe journalist, Hopewell Chin’ono has made claims that President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s advisor Paul Tungwarara’s Prevail Group has been awarded the multi-million dollar contract to refurbish hospitals without going to tender.
”Mnangagwa awarded Prevail International a contract to refurbish Zimbabwean hospitals without going to tender, as he always does,” Chin’ono said on Facebook.
”He then lied to Zimbabweans, claiming he made an unplanned visit to Sally Mugabe and Parirenyatwa hospitals. It was a lie because the visits were choreographed.”
Chin’ono alleged that the contract was awarded to a company based in Dubai which is linked to Tungwarara.
Chin’ono post as posted on Facebook below:
The Zimbabwean dictator and one of his criminal cartel members, Tempter Paul Tungwarara, set up a company called Prevail International Group of Companies, whose website was registered in January 2025.
Mnangagwa had appointed Tungwarara as his Special Presidential Investment Adviser for the UAE in November 2024.
So what happened next?
Mnangagwa awarded Prevail International a contract to refurbish Zimbabwean hospitals without going to tender, as he always does.
He then lied to Zimbabweans, claiming he made an unplanned visit to Sally Mugabe and Parirenyatwa hospitals. It was a lie because the visits were choreographed.
Just hours after these staged visits, Prevail International was already at work at Parirenyatwa Hospital, paving the way for a hugely secretive and inflated contract.
Prevail International, which has done no commercial work outside Mnangagwa’s regime, has been awarded numerous government contracts, including the Zimbabwe Cyber City project, a project that began before the company was even registered.
It has also received multiple “Presidential” government contracts, including large-scale projects such as boreholes, housing stands for war veterans, solar initiatives, Mt Hampden Presidential Villas, and the State House perimeter wall.
It billed the government of Zimbabwe US$15 million for the State House perimeter wall.
All these contracts were awarded without public tender, without contest, and they share one common denominator; they are all hugely inflated.
Prevail International is also managing the war veterans housing project, involving 50,000 stands.
It runs the Zimbabwe Youth Presidential Support programme and has a working relationship with Angel of Hope, which is run by Mnangagwa’s wife, Auxillia.
Mnangagwa publicly instructed all government officials to grant Tungwarara “all the privileges, facilities, and immunities” given to diplomats. Tungwarara was also given a diplomatic passport, something Mnangagwa has bestowed on all the criminals working for him.
The South African government is reported by Zimbabwean journalist Maynard Manyowa to have complained about hundreds of Zimbabwean diplomatic passports being used to cross its borders weekly.
The American government has placed Zimbabwe on a watch list and is considering banning Zimbabweans from entering the United States due to the widespread abuse and lack of integrity of its passports.
Prevail International’s so-called headquarters in Zimbabwe is listed on its website as a house in Chisipite, Harare, at 35 Dacombe Road. In Dubai, it operates from a mixed-use building that contains apartments and studio flats.
The company was also registered in Britain on 28 January 2025, using a three-bedroom house at 12 The Saltings, Greenhithe, Kent, as its address.
Tungwarara has been linked to multiple serious allegations of corruption in Zimbabwe, including fraudulent property scams and unpaid loans.
He allegedly sold a Harare stand he did not own to an Indian investor, Razaa Jishan, for US$1.3 million, collecting additional funds for construction and permits.
When the sale fell apart, he reportedly brought armed men to evict the investor. The complaint was filed with police in July 2023.
In 2019, Tungwarara was accused of borrowing US$350,000 from Jospher Chibisa for State House contracts but repaid only US$64,500. Chibisa’s CID fraud case reportedly disappeared without explanation.
Prevail International Group of Companies Website👉🏿 https://www.prevailgroupinternational.com