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IPPs now producing 135MW as ZERA cancels 8 licences
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) says only 19 independent power producers (IPPs) are operational from the 88, which have been licenced to date while eight licences were cancelled for fa...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 14:06hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe's electric vehicle vision may flop
A strategic plan twinning the development of electric vehicle (EVs) in Zimbabwe and commensurate investment into the power industry will be key to sustaining their presence on the country's roads, acc...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 17:07hrs | 1096 | by Staff reporter
RBZ orders Zimbabwe banks to give forex
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya has ordered banks to settle transactions outside the public glare as he cracks the whip on the sector amid revelations some banks were refusing cl...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 07:06hrs | 9514 | by Staff reporter
Green Fuel selling ethanol in 'real money'
ZIMBABWE'S biggest ethanol producer Green Fuel is now selling the commodity in hard cash and accepts only transfers to its nostro foreign currency account accompanied by letters from the clients' bank...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:12hrs | 1202 | by Staff reporter
We remain the land: The endless land wars of Chipinge
To many Zimbabweans, the forecast that there will be normal to above normal rains in 2020-21 farming is sweet news. However, this does not apply to many people in Chipinge.While others are pre...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 19:10hrs | 548 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
'Abducted' Zimbabwe doctor free of poisoning: Tests
A RANGE of blood and urine specimens extracted from Peter Magombeyi, the former Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) president, who was allegedly abducted by state security last year showed no...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1235 | by Staff reporter
Fuel prices hiked
Fuel prices have been adjusted slightly upwards to $97,93c for petrol and $83,36 for diesel, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) announced last night, while US dollar maximum prices have b...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:30hrs | 2603 | by Staff reporter
'Chasi a victim of state capture'
FORMER energy minister Fortune Chasi (pictured)'s dramatic sacking from cabinet two weeks ago was a culmination of an intriguing plot of state capture by powerful fuel cartels, notably his spirited bu...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 9195 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 22:59hrs | 4290 | by Terence. T. Simbi
Covid-19 delays jatropha energy project comeback
The outbreak of the corona virus, or Covid-19, has delayed the anticipated revival of the jatropha energy project in Zimbabwe.In 2017, the Zimbabwe government announced that it had rekindled t...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:22hrs | 142 | by Green Energy Zimbabwe
Chamisa's MP approaches court over mandatory fuel blending
HARARE North member of the National Assembly and businessman Allan Markham has approached the High Court for an order to set aside regulations for the mandatory blending of anhydrous ethanol with unle...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2601 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's fuel pricing structure is flawed, uncompetitive'
AS the country reels under acute fuel shortages, compounded by the depreciating Zimbabwean dollar and limited foreign currency, senior reporter Tinashe Kairiza (TK) this week spoke to National Oil Inf...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1652 | by Staff reporter
Govt to audit US$ service stations
Government says it will conduct audits on fuel companies accessing the precious commodity through the reserve Bank of Zimbabwe foreign currency facility to check if they were not double-dipping by sel...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 939 | by Staff reporter
'Ethanol is making Zimbabwe petrol expensive while destroying engines'
Former legislator Norman Mpofu has questioned the rationale behind Ethanol being added into fuel if it makes the fuel so expensive as it is in Zimbabwe."Zimbabweans there are questions asked a...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:40hrs | 2122 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe fuel price hike raises ethanol eyebrows
ZIMBABWE'S fuel is the most expensive in the region following this week's price hike, amid grave concern over the cost component of locally-produced ethanol on the overall petrol price. Ethanol is sup...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 2940 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe returning to weekly fuel price increases
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) on Thursday said it will revert back to reviewing prices of fuel on a weekly basis in line with movements in the exchange rate which wil...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:52hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fuel prices shoot up 150%
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority on Wednesday increased the pump prices of fuel by about 150 percent.With effect from Wednesday, diesel will cost 62.77 Zimbabwe dollars (ZWL) and petro...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:26hrs | 1232 | by Staff reporter
EFF threatens to destroy Zimbabwe's lucerne grass project
ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) Zimbabwe president Innocent Gagu Lutshutsha Ndibali has threatened to destroy the lucerne grass project if government goes ahead with its plans to displace over 2 500 v...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:31hrs | 2009 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's quarantined returnees drinking sanitisers
Some returnees in quarantine facilities are taking serious risks by drinking liquid sanitisers as a way of mitigating boredom associated with overstaying in compulsory quarantine. Sanitisers h...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Schools not producing PPE
THE majority of government schools in rural and urban areas are not producing personal protective equipment (PPE) owing to material and financial resource constraints, contrary to claims by authoritie...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:47hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
Lewis Matutu savages Mnangagwa over corruption
Former Zanu-PF youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu deleted his Twitter account on Saturday, hours after appearing to take aim at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family for corruption....Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 10:50hrs | 11061 | by Staff reporter
Petrol blending back to E20
The mandatory percentage of ethanol blending has been restored to 20 percent after sitting at 10 percent after ethanol production fell below market requirements. Energy and Power Develop...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1354 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga hints on displacement of 2 500 Chilonga villagers
Vice-President Constantine Chiwenga on Wednesday told Chiredzi villagers that changes on their current settlement would be made after the COVID-19 crisis in a clear sign that government was determined...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 18:26hrs | 3754 | by Staff reporter
Chiredzi villagers demonstrate at VP Chiwenga over ancestral land
Chiredzi South villagers on Wednesday raised placards in the presence of vice president Constantino Chiwenga to protest a lucerne grass farming project which is bound to displace over 1 000 families f...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 07:59hrs | 5522 | by Staff reporter
Smart card system to track fuel supply chain
ZIMBABWE will soon have a smart card system to track fuel through the entire supply chain to the retail consumers. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is working with the Harare Institute of Technology...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 07:40hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Opposition leader vows to defend Chiredzi villagers
ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) Zimbabwe president Innocent Gagu Lutshutsha Ndibali has criticised plans by the government to displace thousands of villagers from Chiredzi to pave way for a lucerne pr...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:31hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
1 000 villagers to pave way for grass project
OVER 1 000 families in Chiredzi South and East are set to be displaced from their land to pave way for a lucerne production project by private milk producer, Dendairy.Sources close to the matt...Published: 01 May 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1770 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic joins the fight against COVID-19
Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe, has put its shoulder on the wheel in the fight against Covid-19 by pledging an assortment of the much-needed equipment worth US$200 000....Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 17:05hrs | 942 | by Staff reporter
Zacc pounces on Green Fuel truck
A consignment belonging to Green Fuel, the country's biggest ethanol producer, has been intercepted by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) at Beitbridge Border Post after being flagged as p...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:47hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 confirmed cases reach 24, tests conducted 2 493, deaths recorded 3
Substandard sanitisers are readily available at Mbare Musika Market, as unscrupulous dealers capitalise on the unavailability and unaffordability of authentic ones. Industry and Commerce Minister Seka...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 07:49hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Power Crisis Solely a Result of Poor Planning by the Illegitimate Regime
Zimbabwe power short ages will not be resolved - as long as the ED led illegitimate regime continues to sleep at wheelAs the Zimbabwean citizenry and economy is ravaged by incessant powe...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 11:22hrs | 604 | by Jasmine Toffa
Victims count the cost of fake hand sanitisers
CROOKED traders are bilking consumers by selling fake hand sanitisers, raising fears cheated members of the public might be exposed to the coronavirus.The global outbreak of Covid-19 has led t...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:28hrs | 1185 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ramps up fight against Covid-19
State universities and local firms have increased the production of drugs and materials required in fighting Covid-19, as Government intensified efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus. The ...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 07:17hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Green Fuel branches into hand sanitisers
GREEN Fuel, Zimbabwe's biggest ethanol producer, has started producing hand sanitisers to assist in the fight against coronavirus. The company is already in the process of donating over 10 000...Published: 01 Apr 2020 at 07:27hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Harare Institute of Technology develops ventilator
The Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) has developed a ventilator which it is testing before trials begin, with the potential of making 40 such gadgets per day, while other tertiary institutions are...Published: 31 Mar 2020 at 07:51hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Rautenbach's monopoly bleeds Zimbabwe
THE newly enacted bio-fuels policy of Zimbabwe exposes how local tycoon Billy Rautenbach's monopoly in ethanol production has crippled the country financially despite the availability of cheaper ethan...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2622 | by Staff reporter
lllegitimate Regime's corrupt forex allocation, and policy inconsistencies responsible for perpetual fuel problems
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has said it is increasingly concerned by the never-ending propensity by the ZANU(PF) regime for corrupt tendencies in foreign currency allocations; as well as ...Published: 16 Mar 2020 at 07:17hrs | 347 | by Stephen Jakes
Billy Rautenbach pays police for protection
EXPLOSIVE minutes of a meeting convened by Local Government, Public Works and National Housing minister July Moyo to resolve a land ownership row between five housing co-operatives and Billy Rautenbac...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 09:47hrs | 1917 | by Staff reporter
No forex, no fuel for Zimdollar earning Zimbabweans
FUEL is readily available for motorists buying in foreign currency, but not for those using local currency who have to queue for hours to access the commodity. This supply situation of diesel ...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:42hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
Green Fuel demands lost fuel from NOIC
Green Fuel (Pvt) Ltd boss Billy Rautenbach has approached the court seeking to amend his lawsuit against the National Oil Infrastructure Company of Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd (Noic) in which he is seeking com...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:45hrs | 696 | by Staff reporter
Anti-graft rhetoric leading us nowhere
THE public admission by Prosecutor-General Kumbirai Hodzi that corrupt cartels have captured key government institutions including the police and judiciary demonstrates that as long as the fight again...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:39hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Police raid Joram Gumbo's house
Police in Harare on Wednesday raided a house being rented out by the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs (Monitoring and Implementation of Government Programmes) Dr Joram Gumbo and recovered il...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 1008 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo's house into a liquor hub
POLICE this Wednesday busted an illegal liquor syndicate that had turned a Minister's house in Harare into a brewery for unlicensed liquor popularly known as Musombodhiya.Acting on a tip-off, ...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 15:28hrs | 2308 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa not captured by Tagwirei'
OUTSPOKEN Zanu-PF youths have distanced President Emmerson Mnangagwa from alleged capture by the under-fire business executives.At a press briefing in Harare on Monday, Zanu-PF deputy youth se...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 12:15hrs | 2649 | by newzimbabwe
The regime is alien to transparency, accountability
THE ruling Zanu-PF party members have been giving Zimbabweans comic relief in the past few months, making the right noises about transparency and accountability in government and the economy, but ques...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:12hrs | 303 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zanu-PF youths demand arrest of tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's adviser, Kudakwashe Tagwirei, is a name-dropping wealth accumulator who has amassed a fortune on the back of weak governance systems and buying the silence of politician...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 07:27hrs | 5605 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths turn up the heat on 'corrupt' Mnangagwa, Chiwenga ally
THE Zanu-PF Youth League has intensified its campaign for action to be brought against under fire business tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei whom they accuse of using his fat pocket to stir up economic havoc...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 05:56hrs | 3227 | by newzimbabwe
War in Zanu-PF youth league over 'Cartel Corruption List'
War has erupted within the ranks of the Zanu-PF youth league hours after it fingered Sakunda Boss Kuda Tagwirei, Green energy owner Billy Rautenbach and Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe boss Tafa...Published: 03 Feb 2020 at 18:03hrs | 4396 | by Staff reporter
Govt mulls reviewing fuel pricing formula again
Government is considering shifting from weekly fuel price reviews to monthly adjustments to stem the price volatility that is disrupting planning by businesses and negatively impacting on consumers....Published: 08 Dec 2019 at 11:43hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
NOTICE: Latest on fuel blending
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has announced that fuel blending will remain at 20% and has encouraged the public to disregard the earlier circular that the blend will reduce to 10%. ...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 19:02hrs | 2394 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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