ANC Insiders Know MySols Is SA’s Wicknell Chivayo — But Nobody Will Name Him

Senior figures inside Luthuli House have quietly acknowledged for months that MySols, the politically charged procurement vehicle sweeping government contracts across three provinces, operates as a domestic echo of Zimbabwean tycoon Wicknell Chivayo — shielded by proximity to power rather than legitimate commercial strength.

Multiple sources familiar with ruling-party discussions told this publication that the MySols principal allegedly secured lucrative state deals through a network of ANC-aligned intermediaries, mirroring the precise methodology Chivayo deployed in Harare — fronting credible business branding while directing funds toward political benefactors rather than service delivery outcomes.

Parliamentary oversight committee members confirmed last week that a formal inquiry into irregular MySols-linked awards remains stalled, with the Standing Committee on Public Accounts citing outstanding documentation from the National Treasury as justification for further delays, a pattern opposition MPs publicly called deliberate obstruction.

Chivayo built his Zimbabwean empire by winning a R208-million solar contract from Zesa Holdings in 2015 — a deal courts later scrutinised amid fraud allegations — and observers tracking South African procurement irregularities began drawing structural comparisons after MySols emerged in 2022 with outsized tender victories and virtually no verifiable construction history predating its registration.

At a community hall gathering in Tembisa earlier this month, a ward councillor held up a MySols-branded hard hat, telling approximately sixty residents that their long-promised housing units remained unbuilt despite R12-million having already left a municipal account — the yellow plastic helmet sitting on a folding table beside stacks of unanswered correspondence became the image residents photographed and circulated widely across neighbourhood WhatsApp groups.

No ruling-party spokesperson has publicly demanded an independent forensic review of MySols contracts, and the individual at the centre of these growing comparisons has issued no statement addressing the mounting scrutiny — leaving South Africans to wonder whether the ANC’s silence represents protection, paralysis, or something far more calculated.

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