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Zera board flies into fuel storm
THE new Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) board received a baptism of fire at its first meeting with oil firms on February 18, as indigenous operators rejected a requirement to raise a ZW$30...Published: 3 hrs ago | 451 | by Staff reporter
Mandiwanzira hits out at 'staggering incompetence' over 'cartels' report
Former Cabinet Minister Supa Mandiwanzira has been left crying foul over what he called "staggering incompetence" by a South African publication, the Daily Maverick, whose exclusive report on the mass...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:55hrs | 3271 | by Staff reporter
Fuel price goes up
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has announced new fuel prices with effect from today. According to a statement from the regulatory body, the new price of Diesel 50 in local currency i...Published: 05 Feb 2021 at 15:47hrs | 1692 | by Staff Reporter
Zera regulates solar dealers
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has released a list with close to 100 registered companies that deal in solar equipment and services across the country.The register comprises c...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 18:17hrs | 1770 | by Staff reporter
Zera introduces electronic licensing
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has introduced electronic licencing for players in the petroleum sector.The energy regulator said it started issuing out the electronic licences...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 18:53hrs | 1210 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa questions JB Matiza's heroes status
The late Transport and Infrastructural Development minister, Joel Biggie Matiza was declared a national hero yesterday but Norton MP, Temba Mliswa has conferring of hero status on him become a problem...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 07:07hrs | 11632 | by Staff reporter
Zera announces new fuel prices
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has announced new fuel prices effective 5 January 2021.The price of petrol has been pegged at US$1,21 or ZWL99.35 while diesel was at $1,3...Published: 05 Jan 2021 at 08:14hrs | 5197 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fuel imports decline 20% in 10 months to October, says ZERA
A slow down in economic activity due to the coronavirus-induced lockdowns saw fuel (diesel and petrol) imports decline in the ten months to October. Figures from the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authori...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 18:23hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza gets own passport office
Chitungwiza now has its own passport office, the first district office opened yesterday by the Department of Civil Registry under the Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage as an effort to dec...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:15hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean citizen kicked out of SA may return, court rules
Pretoria - A Zimbabwean citizen who had been kicked out of South Africa and deported back to Zimbabwe has received an early Christmas gift.At the time, Home Affairs had, out of the blue, 13 ye...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 12:21hrs | 2803 | by Staff Reporter
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 | 787 | by Staff reporter
Farmers protest diesel price hike
THE recent increase in the price of diesel by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulation Authority (Zera) looks set to negatively affect farmers in the ongoing 2020/21 cropping season, the Daily News can report....Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1539 | by Staff reporter
Zera hikes diesel price
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) yesterday announced a 19 percent price hike for diesel, which took immediate effect.In a new fuel price notice, diesel is now $97,24 and US$1,19...Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 20:35hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter
Sector priorities for NDS implementation
Zimbabwe launched its new 5 year economic blueprint called the National Development Strategy (NDS-1) on 16 November 2020. The new plan succeeds the Transitional Stabilization Programme (TSP) that ends...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 09:17hrs | 771 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnangagwa's wife donates masks to school children
FIRST LADY Auxillia Mnangagwa, who is the Angel of Hope Foundation patron, yesterday handed over a consignment of face masks to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, as she presses ahead wi...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:45hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter
Zesa reduces tariffs, introduces new band
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has reduced its tariffs for domestic consumption following a public outcry by customers after the tariffs were increased by more ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 06:48hrs | 4662 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wades into ZESA tariff hike
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered power utility ZESA to reduce its stepped electricity tariff from about US$0.19 per kilowatt hour (kWh) to about US$0.10 /kWh following a public outcry....Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:57hrs | 30536 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe scores high in Africa electricity regulatory rankings
Zimbabwe has recorded an impressive performance in the latest Electricity Regulatory Index 2020 advancing from 21st position out of 34 participants in 2019 to sixth position in 2020 out of 36....Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 21:38hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Allan Chimbetu reignites Dendera mood on new album
When Allan Chimbetu announced a few weeks ago that he would be bouncing back into the showbiz industry with an album titled "Urgent Matter", Dendera music fans were upbeat about itFor years th...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 13:44hrs | 2477 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Zimbabwe imports 600MW to cover power supply gap
THE country is importing up to 600MW of electricity from regional producers so as to cover the supply gap, which is created by subdued energy generation capacity mainly by ageing thermal power station...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 23:28hrs | 940 | by Staff Reporter
Zera adjusts petrol prices downwards
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) on Thursday reviewed fuel prices in accordance with the prevailing market conditions.The price for petrol went down $0.51 cents to ZW$97.11, whi...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:05hrs | 1519 | by Staff reporter
Zimra demands US$7m fuel import duty
DIRECT Fuel Imports Group Zimbabwe (DFIGZ), a grouping of small-scale fuel procurement firms, is seeking a relief order from the High Court that will nullify demands by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority ...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:55hrs | 1000 | by Staff reporter
Allan Chimbetu returns
When Allan Chimbetu took a sabbatical to music industry he has shelved songs he intended to release sometime in future.While doing some menial jobs, the musician was just penning songs though ...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 09:51hrs | 3540 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Sanctions are NOT responsible for economic crisis - just because Zanu PF decrees so does not make it so
The root cause of Zimbabwe's economic mess and political paralysis is the failure to hold free, fair and credible elections. The country has been stuck with a corrupt, incompetent and murderous dictat...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:31hrs | 329 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa son imposter denied bail
A HARARE man who allegedly claimed to be President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son Collins, and swindled a South Africa-based Zimbabwean of R136 000 has been denied bail.Charles Nyanguwo, 50, who is ...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 20:35hrs | 840 | by Staff reporter
Trump, a poisoned chalice, says analysts
In yet another not so surprising move, United States of America (USA) President, Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, if he loses the 3 November 2020, elections....Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:17hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Fuel prices reduced by 5%
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has announced new fuel prices which have seen diesel slightly going down by five percent, while petrol slightly increased by four percent, the Daily New...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 20:13hrs | 2351 | by Staff reporter
Zesa tariff hike hits 100% inside a week
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) on Thursday increased domestic electricity tariffs by 50 percent, the second such raise in a week.The ZESA subsidiary - s...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 22:07hrs | 2707 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF deploys social media warriors
Jittery about the increasingly influential role of social media in the formation of public opinion, the ruling Zanu-PF party plans to deploy activists in every district to counter online narratives th...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 21:56hrs | 3433 | 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 | 2605 | by Staff reporter
Zera warns errant service stations
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has warned service stations not using their own offshore funds against charging fuel in forex only. Zera said it is illegal for service stations...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 06:46hrs | 838 | by Staff reporter
Fuel prices rise
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has increased the price of fuel by margins ranging between 30 percent and 33 percent with effect from yesterday.However, in a public notice, Zer...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:32hrs | 3456 | by Staff reporter
Motorists plead for fuel dual pricing
Government should come up with legislation that makes it mandatory for service stations to sell fuel in both foreign and local currency in line with the prevailing exchange rate, motorists have said. ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Fuel smuggling ring busted
Multiple fuel smuggling scams are being run in Zimbabwe with cheap fuel being smuggled from Mozambique, sometimes mislabelled to avoid customs duty, and sold or re-exported for hard currency while fue...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:47hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
Forex fuel prices tumble
Fuel dealers allowed to charge in foreign currency are now competing on price, with most charging well below the legal maximums of US$1,28 a litre for petrol and US$1,09 for diesel. While fuel...Published: 16 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 7941 | by Staff reporter
It is time for Mthuli Ncube to go
Finance minister of Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube, PhD (cantab), has become the poster child of everything that is wrong with the management of affairs in Zimbabwe. He must go. Then and only then, will Zimba...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 5212 | by Kenneth Mufuka
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 | 2634 | 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 | 1655 | by Staff reporter
Electricity tariff increase looms
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) is assessing an application for an electricity tariff increase that was recently lodged by the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Compan...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1090 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2942 | by Staff reporter
Fuel prices spark public outrage
AS Zimbabwe's fuel crisis intensifies, we took time to track the number of times the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) formally announced an increase in the price of fuel over the past 12 mo...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1932 | 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
Govt mulls fuel price hike
Fuel prices might be reviewed upwards in order to address biting "artificial shortages" of the commodity on the local market, Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi has hinted.In ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 09:41hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'to re-activate freedoms promised' - shame, will never understand they are inalienable
Mnangagwa is a creature of habit - his habit is to make promises which he clearly has no intention of honouring. Empty promises! "Charovedzera charovedzera, gudo rakakwira mawere kwasviba!" as one wou...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 13:20hrs | 5666 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zera adds third band of cheaper electricity
A third band of cheaper electricity has been added to existing two by energy regulator, Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (zera), that will help larger families that were struggling to remain withi...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:10hrs | 612 | 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
Govt allays fuel shortage fears
Officials in the Ministry of Energy and Power Development are leaning on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to release letters of credit (LCs) that are needed to release fuel for oil traders.I...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 756 | 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
High Court blocks big eight fuel monopoly
THE 2020 licensing of fuel-import companies has taken a dramatic twist after the High Court declared null and void the Zimbabwe Energy and Regulatory Authority (Zera)'s decision last month to licence ...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 09:13hrs | 1912 | by Staff reporter
Price of fuel increases
THE price of fuel has been marginally increased with effect from today. Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) announced the new prices yesterday in line with Statutory Instrument 270 of 2019. ...Published: 05 Jun 2020 at 08:27hrs | 1119 | by Staff reporter
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