HARARE – Flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo has donated a brand new Toyota Fortuner worth US$80,000 and US$50,000 in cash to a man who lost his wife and all five of his children in a single road traffic accident over the Easter weekend.
Ronald Mujuru was left without his entire family after the crash which claimed six lives. Lilian Mujuru was driving to a church conference with her five children aged 15, 13, 11, 7 and 3 when her vehicle had a head-on collision with a haulage truck near Mvuma.
Chivayo announced the donation on X, saying he was moved by the scale of the loss and felt compelled to act as a fellow Zimbabwean and as a homeboy from the same part of Chivhu.
“It is the most difficult and unimaginable thing for any parent to bury a child, but to bury five children and at the same time bury your wife is the most horrendous thing that no human heart should ever be asked to endure,” Chivayo wrote.
He directed Mujuru to collect the 2026 Toyota Fortuner 2.8 GD6 from Exquisite Car Dealership in Harare, describing the vehicle and the cash as chema — the traditional gesture of condolence giving.
“This is all from the bottom of my heart and by no means intended to gain any mileage at the expense of your grief, but a small token to lessen the emotional pain and unimaginable agony you are carrying,” he added.
Chivayo also paid tribute to first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, who visited Mujuru to offer condolences.
“Such a gesture demonstrated the true spirit of ubuntu that binds us together as Zimbabweans,” he wrote. He also acknowledged Transport Minister Felix Mhona, who attended the funeral.
Chivayo has become one of Zimbabwe’s most high-profile philanthropists, regularly making headline-grabbing donations to celebrities, churches, schools, politicians and football clubs.
The Mujuru donation adds to a long list of beneficiaries that has made him a polarising but unavoidable figure in public life.
