Caston Matewu 🇿🇼

Our attention now turns to Local Authorities

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First as Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee, I want to wholeheartedly thank Mai Kujinga who has been acting Auditor General of Zimbabwe for the past 3 years since the departure of Mildred Chiri. Mai Kujinga has done well to produce high quality reports which have been useful for us in executing our role; I wish her all the best. I want to also welcome Ms Chikwenhere in her new role as the Auditor General, she has the qualifications and I personally examined her interview results and previous experience before her confirmation by Parliament. I am confident she will carry out her new role with absolute due diligence.

@acielumumba Absolutely true, as Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee I was somewhat involved in rigorously examining her credentials and she ticks all the boxes, this is a big plus for the girl child. We look forward to welcoming her to the Public Accounts Committee

𝗔 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗗𝗔𝗪𝗡 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗭𝗜𝗠𝗕𝗔𝗕𝗪𝗘'𝗦 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗖 𝗣𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗘: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿-𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗮𝗶 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗸𝘄𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 ✍🏾 A Feature Article | May 2026 There is something quietly powerful about a woman who leaves home, conquers distant shores, and then comes back — not for comfort, but for purpose. That is the story of Mrs. Vimbai Kadenge Chikwenhere, Zimbabwe's newly appointed Auditor-General — a chartered accountant whose extraordinary career arc now places her at the very heart of the nation's financial conscience. In February 2026, Parliament approved her appointment following a nomination by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, with Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube presenting the matter to the National Assembly under Section 310(1) of the Constitution. The Public Accounts Committee, after thoroughly examining her credentials, added its endorsement without hesitation. It was a unanimous vote of confidence in a woman whose professional journey reads like a masterclass in quiet excellence. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ "𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘆, 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗽" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The words spreading across social media in the days following the announcement were telling: "Classy, young and sharp. Meet the new Auditor-General, Mrs Vimbai Chikwenhere. Gender mainstreaming is a priority in this Second Republic." For many Zimbabweans, her appointment was not just a bureaucratic decision — it was a statement. A signal that the country's highest offices of financial oversight are no longer the exclusive preserve of a particular generation or gender. Minister Ncube himself could barely conceal his enthusiasm in Parliament: 💬 "This individual, Mrs Vimbai Chikwenhere, is a chartered accountant and therefore appropriately qualified for the position of Auditor-General. She is a lady, as you can imagine, Vimbai, and she has experience." The Women Chartered Accountants Network (WeCANICAZ) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (ICAZ) both publicly celebrated the appointment as a landmark moment for women in Zimbabwe's accounting profession. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝘁 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗮 — 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Vimbai Chikwenhere's career is defined by bold choices and the relentless pursuit of professional excellence. She began her journey right at home in Zimbabwe, cutting her teeth at one of the most prestigious firms in global finance: Ernst & Young. It was there that she built the foundational skills — discipline, rigour, and an uncompromising eye for detail — that would define the rest of her career. From Zimbabwe, she spread her wings internationally. In what many would describe as one of the most intriguing detours in professional life, she made her way to the remote British Overseas Territory of St Helena Island in the South Atlantic Ocean — the same island where Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled in his final years — and turned it into a stage for her finest professional work. She joined Audit St Helena in 2019, first as Audit Manager, then Acting Head of Audit, before ascending to Deputy Chief Auditor — effectively the Deputy Auditor-General of St Helena — a role she held from February 2022. On that small island of fewer than 6,000 people, she honed her expertise in planning and delivering financial and performance audits across a diverse portfolio of public sector bodies, operating under international auditing standards. While the geography was modest, the professional demands were world-class. She later worked in South Africa in the same field, adding yet another layer of continental experience to her portfolio — before the call came from home. As early as 2023, ICAZ profiled her in their prestigious 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 magazine, where she reflected on a career "started 17 years ago, supported by family, mentors and colleagues." At the time, she was still Deputy Auditor-General in St Helena. Nobody could have imagined that within three years, she would be heading home to lead the entire Audit Office of Zimbabwe. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗱𝘀 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Office of the Auditor-General is not merely a title — it is one of the most constitutionally powerful positions in Zimbabwe. Anchored in Section 309 of the Constitution and the Audit Office Act, the Auditor-General is mandated to examine, audit, and report to Parliament on the management of public resources across every corner of the Zimbabwean state — including all government ministries, local authorities, and State-controlled enterprises. The objective: to influence public sector entities to practise good financial management and to carry out their programmes with integrity. It is a role that requires equal measures of courage, competence, and constitution. Chikwenhere carries all three in abundance. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👑 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ No account of Chikwenhere's arrival is complete without honouring the towering figure whose footsteps she now follows. Mrs. Mildred Chiri served as Zimbabwe's Auditor-General from February 2004 to March 2023 — a remarkable 19 years in the role, within a four-decade public service career that began when she joined as a humble audit assistant in 1983. She served her two constitutional terms and retired in 2023, leaving behind these unforgettable words: 💬 "I want to leave a good legacy so that whoever comes after me can build upon my work, rather than starting from ruins." Deputy Auditor-General 𝗥𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗵 𝗞𝘂𝗷𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗮 then stepped up in an acting capacity throughout 2023, 2024, and into 2025 — until Chikwenhere's permanent appointment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗘𝗿𝗮𝘀 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Chikwenhere does not arrive as a stranger to Chiri's mission. She is a Chartered Accountant of Zimbabwe (CA(Z)), Big Four-trained, with over a decade of post-articles experience spanning three countries and some of the world's most demanding audit environments. She has spent years in the trenches of public sector auditing — reviewing financial statements, assessing performance, recommending reforms — not as an academic exercise, but as lived, hands-on professional practice. Her appointment also carries symbolic weight for Zimbabwe's Second Republic. President Mnangagwa has, since taking office, made a point of placing women in key constitutional and leadership positions. The appointment of Chikwenhere continues that narrative — not as tokenism, but as recognition of genuine excellence. This is a government saying: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘣 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇿🇼 𝗔 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Vimbai Chikwenhere's story is ultimately a story that resonates deeply across Africa: a young professional who dared to go out into the world, mastered her craft far from home, built an international reputation, and then chose to return — because her country needed exactly what she had become. She steps into the role with a powerful legacy behind her, a clear constitutional mandate in front of her, and a nation's hopes firmly resting on her shoulders. In Zimbabwe's Second Republic, accountability has a new face — and it is young, sharp, internationally proven, and unmistakably Zimbabwean. 🔥 Share this story. Zimbabwe deserves to celebrate its best. #Zimbabwe #AuditorGeneral #VimbaiChikwenhere #WomenInLeadership #SecondRepublic #AccountabilityZW #ZimbabweanWomen #ICAZ #PublicFinance #AfricanExcellence

@t3z2 @daddyhope @molokele U fool I have already made it clear I am voting against CAB3

@daddyhope @molokele waiting for unprincipled charlatans like @cmatewu to state the same

Thank you @molokele for tagging me in this post, where you publicly stated that you will step down in 2028 when your term of office comes to an end, and that you will not join the unconstitutional gravy train if Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 is passed. That now makes it you and Bulawayo mayor David Coltart who have publicly committed themselves to respecting constitutional term limits and refusing to participate in any unconstitutional extension of power. If any other MP or councillor is following you and shares the same position, please tag me in this post’s comments section. The public deserves to know who is prepared to respect constitutional term limits and who is prepared to stand against Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3.

It’s NOW or never. Come on you Gunners, we got this!

Good Morning Marondera I cannot in good conscience support CAB3 Regards Hon C Matewu

@waltermzembi @BeholdTendai All the best

Proof of Life … Thank you All for the support , intercession & prayers and solidarity messages over the last 325 days of my incarceration. God Bless you immensely : we give all the glory to the Most High. Muswere Munyasha…

I have known Wes @wesstreeting since our days at the NUS UK, a good person with a great personality. Would make a fantastic PM. Good luck mate

“Zimbabwe will not have a fuel crisis over the next six months. Our reserves are full, with over 540 million litres of fuel underground,” says Hon @cmatewu during a tour of the NOIC Mabvuku depot. He added that Parliament will support legislation to boost fuel pumping capacity and impose stiffer penalties on pipeline vandalism.

@bla_bidza You are misquoting me

Ndopawunonzwa @cmatewu saying Zimbabwe should abandon ZISCO when the British are nationalising steel because it has become a key factor of economic development and they are doing this because of the trajectory whereby China will demand more. Hanzi....aaah ZISCO is dead. Let's forget about it. We dodged the bullet. Imagine having a government with people who think like that?

My honest assessment on the situation at ZISCO steel

I have nothing to do with this program and never agreed to it. I am the Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee and I hold the government accountable from that angle and nothing else. This does not have my consent

@BrentfordFC You have our fulllll support

All eyes on the Etihad 🫡

@Jamwanda2 😂😂😂😂

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It’s my daughters bday 📍Lusaka

@Haruzivishej I don’t know this guy and have never met him

@cmatewu are these your leaders, you are well led by dulls

@MuzevezaC Yes

@cmatewu Does Marondera Council have that land to do the deal?

Why Boreholes in small towns for now! I have seen many comments about people complaining why we are putting Solarised boreholes in our towns, they are right to be worried but it is the best solution for now. In 1975 the population of Marondera was circa 18k, this is when the current water treatment plant was built. The plant was meant to cater for a population of about 20k people. Ever since then it has never been expanded; the population of Marondera is now about 120k and growing. What is needed now is the expansion of the water treatment plant to cater for about 150k people and the requisite infrastructure, ie underground piping, sewer and so on. The current master plan estimates the cost at USD$20million. This is what Marondera Municipality requires to get the job done; they are currently looking for investors who are willing to finance on BOT arrangements or part of a land deal. If anyone is interested I can direct you to the relevant authorities It is not the role of an MP to provide water to residents, it is the role of the local authorities who receive and charge rates to residents. What I am doing is a stop gap measure to mitigate the current water shortages in the town by providing Solarised boreholes to our suburbs so that people can get access to clean and safe water until residents start getting water through their taps. One thing is where those boreholes are the people are very grateful; it is also my hope that every household gets tap water as soon as possible. I thank you Hon C Matewu MP