Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei (Queen Bee)

The decision by the United States Treasury on 5 August to sanction Mnangagwa's business ally Kudakwashe Tagwirei chief executive of Sakunda Holdings and majority owner of Landela Mining Ventures raises the stakes (AC Vol 61 No 5 Oil guns and politics)...

Apart from failing to boost productivity substantially – due to poor distribution of seeds and fertiliser as much as the latest regional drought – the Command Agriculture Programme has become a formidable source of patronage for Mnangagwa's ally Kudakwashe Tagwirei owner of the Sakunda group of companies working with Swiss-based Trafigura to import fuel and well as running its own agricultural projects (AC Vol 60 No 23 Cashing in on the crisis)...

Makamba's death caused panic in ruling circles and oil importer Sakunda Holdings which is owned by Kudakwashe Tagwirei and is strongly politically connected was secretly mobilised (AC Vol 60 No 23 Cashing in on the crisis)...

Kudakwashe Tagwirei managing director of Sakunda Holdings and business associate of President Emmerson Mnangagwa is at the centre of a new political row...

A week later Sakunda Chief Executive Kudakwashe Tagwirei was seen accompanying President Emmerson Mnangagwa to an international conference in Lyon France...

Among the political cognoscenti Kudakwashe Tagwirei has earned the soubriquet Queen Bee (AC Vol 59 No 22 Trafigura in a tug-of-war)...

Sakunda has a stake in Trafigura Zimbabwe; Kudakwashe Tagwirei Sakunda's chief executive and once close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa was a key enabler of Trafigura's business in Zimbabwe (AC Vol 59 No 22 Trafigura in a tug-of-war)...

Parliament's Public Accounts Committee under its chair Tendai Biti one of the Vice-Presidents of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change has been unearthing new details about how Sakunda CEO Kudakwashe Tagwirei and his officer allies extract funds from Command Agriculture...

Angry at Dutch-based commodities trader Trafigura's control of the country's only oil products pipeline from the Mozambican port of Beira President Emmerson Mnangagwa has told local oil mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei he is determined to break the monopoly...

The military-backed owner of Sakunda Holdings Kudakwashe Tagwirei is believed to have upset Mnangagwa and his allies who are now trying to loosen his grip on the fuel supply and distribution business which is backed by the Dutch-headquartered global commodities firm Trafigura (AC Vol 55 No 10 Trafigura takes over Sakunda)...

Sakunda's managing director Kudakwashe Tagwirei is close to Mnangagwa and the company has helped finance the President's Command Agriculture programme (AC Vol 58 No 4 ZANU-PF digs for votes)...