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Investor Memo: The Key Man — Wicknell Chivayo's Death Leaves State Contracts in Three Countries Resting on a Company Built Around One Person

Wicknell Chivayo died three weeks after Gwanda got its notice to proceed. Solar in Zimbabwe and Eswatini, a stake in Kenya's airport: a pipeline worth hundreds of millions, resting on one man. What happens to it, and the lesson for anyone backing a founder-led contractor.

,   and  Mfonobong Nsehe
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Investor Memo: The Key Man — Wicknell Chivayo's Death Leaves State Contracts in Three Countries Resting on a Company Built Around One Person

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