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Zimbabwe imposes another levy on expensive fuel in the region
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has introduced a nominal levy on both petrol and diesel to support its regulatory and compliance enforcement efforts, as well as to promote renewable en...Published: 14 Oct 2024 at 08:09hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
ZERA in nationwide clampdown on contaminated fuel suppliers
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has issued a strong warning to service stations selling contaminated fuel as part of its intensified quality monitoring and testing campaign across the ...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 10:17hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
ZERA goes after unlicensed LPG, fuel dealers
Zimbabwe's Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) is set to crack down on unauthorized fuel dealers, a move that is expected to impact informal traders significantly. The surge in informality has led to n...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Petroleum operating licenses go up in Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has slightly reviewed upwards petroleum operating licences for 2024 and has urged existing and new fuel operators to renew and submit applications....Published: 29 Dec 2023 at 07:00hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Gas shortage looms in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE may face shortages of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) after wholesalers were ordered to have 48kg cylinders branded at short notice or have their licences cancelled.In a notice, the Zim...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 08:42hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zera slashes gas price by 14,9%
LIQUEFIED petroleum gas (LPG) users will pay 14,9 percent less this month after the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority reduced the retail price for the commodity in foreign currency.The reta...Published: 12 May 2023 at 21:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zera arrest 12 illegal fuel and gas dealers
Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority Chief Executive Officer, Edington Mazambani recently said there are two service stations that contravened the law and...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 15:01hrs | 11 | by Stephen Jakes
LPG prices reduced
LIQUEFIED petroleum gas (LPG) users will pay 4,3 percent less this month after the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority reduced the retail price for the commodity in both local and foreign currency....Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 18:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zera extends span for fuel procurement licences
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has extended by two weeks the expiration date for fuel procurement licenses that were supposed to lapse yesterday, to ensure adequate supply of fuel on ...Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 13:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZERA hikes LPG gas prices
Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has made an upward review of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) prices to US$2,05 per kg effective from November 8, 2021.The liquid petroleum gas i...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:35hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council to pipe pre-paid gas to homes
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) will now install pre-paid gas meters in new residential areas under a piped gas reticulation system, as the local authority seeks alternative revenue streams as demand for ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 20:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zera sets new licensing terms
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has announced a new licensing regime for oil importers, a year after a deadlock erupted in 2020 when indigenous firms rejected the regulator's "outrageo...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Oil barons take Zera boss to task
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has asked oil firms to continue using petroleum importation licences issued in 2019, while the two sides negotiate new licensing requirements.To...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZERA looking to remote fuel monitoring system
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) is inviting interested and capable service providers to implement an information and communication technology system for remote fuel monitoring of the e...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 19:54hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zera raids 2 000+ illegal fuel dealers
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has raided over 2 000 illegal fuel dealers countrywide in the last seven months as part of an ongoing operation to bring sanity to the sector. C...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe increases ethanol blending to 20%
GOVERNMENT has increased the mandatory ethanol blending of unleaded petrol from 10 percent to 20 percent with immediate effect. The increase of the ratio of ethanol to unleaded petrol is expec...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chasi refuse to answer questions about the pricing of ethanol supplied by Billy Rautenbach
ENERGY minister Forune Chasi has refused to answer questions about the pricing of ethanol supplied by business tycoon Billy Rautenbach's Greenfuel, which legislators said was overpriced.Greenf...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 17:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe should fully liberalize the petroleum industry
It has become apparent that the Zimbabwean government is failing to sustain its fuel subsidy in the economy due to foreign currency shortages. The rationale for such a subsidy has been to bring price ...Published: 18 May 2019 at 18:23hrs | 12 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mandatory fuel blending ratio up
Government has increased the mandatory blending of unleaded petrol from five percent ethanol to 10 percent with immediate effect. This was announced in a extraordinary Government Gazette publi...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fuel prices up again
DESPITE government castigating business for over-pricing, there is likely to be no respite for the embattled consumer anytime soon as the price of fuel continues to go up, almost on a weekly basis...Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government stops licensing fuel dealers
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has announced that it has ceased licensing new players who want to engage in the business of importing fuel into the country. A Press rele...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 10:59hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Government to liberalise fuel imports
GOVERNMENT is working on a new set of regulations that would allow holders of free funds to import fuel to augment current supplies.In 2015, Statutory Instrument (SI) 171 was amended to allow ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's fuel price hike done illegally
LEGAL think-tank, Veritas yesterday said the now infamous fuel price hike announced by government a fortnight ago was illegal as the prices were fixed by Energy minister Joram Gumbo instead of the fue...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt sets record straight on fuel
GOVERNMENT has dismissed reports that fuel would be sold in foreign currency with bond notes and swipe being accepted using black market rates only as from Monday. The social media reports were dismis...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 11:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Government bans door to door fuel delivery
The Ministry of Energy and Power Development has blocked a venture by a local delivery company Fresh in a Box which had partnered with a fuel entity Heavy Fuels in delivering fuel to anyon...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 13:35hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt releases $60m for fuel
Government has released US$60 million towards procurement of fuel to mitigate current shortages, a situation that had seen the emergence of unscrupulous fuel dealers charging more than double the gaze...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
2% money transfer tax simplified
Intermediated Money Transfer Tax is a tax collected in terms of Section 36G as read with the Thirtieth Schedule of the Income Tax Act [Chapter 23:06]. This tax has been in place since 2003 and an amen...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 10:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to lead in corruption fight
President Mnangagwa will lead the fight against corruption after he reserved to his office several laws meant to curb graft. The President also set out functions for Cabinet ministers in several Statu...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax sparks confusion
There is confusion in the market over the two percent tax introduced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube.Part of the confusion emanated from an EcoCash message sent to customers stating that whil...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 11:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube makes unpopular tax lawful
Despite the massive resistance which followed the unveiling of a draconian two percent tax on electronic transactions last week, government has now moved to make the fee lawful with immediate effect....Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 14:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's anti-Zimbabweans 2% tax comes into effect today
The Intermediated Money Transfer Tax, now commonly known as 2 cents tax, announced by Government last week comes into effect today after it was gazetted yesterday. This tax was gazetted in Sta...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Transport costs drive fuel prices outside Harare
Fuel dealers outside Harare that are selling the commodity at above government-stipulated prices say they are doing so to cover transportation costs for the fuel to towns outside the capital.A...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 20:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fuel dealers comply with D50 directive
Most fuel dealers across the country have heeded Government's call for industry players to comply with Diesel 50 usage as part of efforts to use environmentally clean fuel that increases vehicles' lif...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 07:06hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Govt sticks to deadline to phase out Diesel 500
ZIMBABWE will stick to the deadline to phase out the high sulphur diesel 500 by the end of the month and cut the price of the cleaner diesel 50 by about nine percent, Energy and Power Development Mini...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Price of diesel 50 to drop
THE price of diesel 50 will drop from $1,36 per litre to $1,24 per litre when government phases out diesel 500, Energy minister Simon Khaya Moyo said on Wednesday.Responding to a question by G...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 06:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Govt bans Diesel 500
Motorists will have to fork out a little more to purchase diesel after government banned the importation of Diesel 500 parts per million (ppm) and directed all fuel dealers to adopt Diesel 50 ppm inst...Published: 01 Jan 2018 at 13:39hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Individual fuel imports banned
GOVERNMENT has banned importation of fuel by individuals.In a notice issued by the Zimbabwe Energy regulatory Authority (Zera) yesterday, Government said it has repealed Statutory Instrument (...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 05:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Selling contaminated fuel lands firm in court
Stadic Petroleum (Private Limited) was on Monday taken to court by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) for allegedly selling contaminated fuel.The company, which was being repr...Published: 17 Aug 2016 at 08:23hrs | | by Prosper Dembedza
Retailers accused of selling sub-standard fuel
QUESTIONS remain on the quality of fuel sold to motorists amid indications that some retailers were recently prosecuted for selling diesel adulterated with paraffin, casting doubts on the Zimbabwe Ene...Published: 20 Jul 2014 at 07:44hrs | | by Kudakwashe Mutandi
Zimbabwe govt enforces cheap petrol blend
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has with immediate effect introduced E5 mandatory blending of anhydrous ethanol and unleaded petrol at levels of 5 percent ethanol and 95 percent unleaded pe...Published: 15 Aug 2013 at 09:18hrs | | by Business Reporter
Zimbabwe dismiss fuel price increase reports
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has dispelled yesterday's reports in some sections of the media that fuel prices had gone up with petrol reportedly selling at US$1,70 per litre, while diesel ...Published: 06 Aug 2013 at 04:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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