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Zimbabwe fuel retailers urged to renew licences
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has issued a reminder to businesses selling fuel and liquid petroleum gas to ensure their licences are renewed on time, emphasizing that those with lice...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 06:29hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fuel black market returns
Illegal fuel dealers have re-emerged on the streets of Bulawayo, selling smuggled petrol and diesel in defiance of government regulations mandating ethanol blending. The illicit traders claim their fu...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 12:57hrs | 6190 | by Staff reporter
ZERA enforces ethanol blending mandate amidst controversy
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has reaffirmed its directive for full compliance with Statutory Instrument 150 of 2024, which mandates the blending of anhydrous ethanol with unleaded p...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 14:16hrs | 1887 | by Staff reporter
Why fuel prices are high in Zim
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has attributed the country's high fuel pump prices to the substantial tax burden and levies applied to petrol and diesel, compared to other countries in...Published: 12 Nov 2024 at 11:00hrs | 1514 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets 2,100MW renewable energy by 2030
The Zimbabwean government has reaffirmed its commitment to advancing renewable energy solutions, aiming to achieve 1,100 megawatts (MW) from renewable energy sources by 2025 and 2,100 MW by 2030. Thes...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 07:03hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bans unleaded fuel
The government has introduced new regulations banning unleaded petrol in Zimbabwe to encourage the use of environmentally friendly fuel and reduce reliance on imported fuel. The ban was announced thro...Published: 31 Aug 2024 at 11:10hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Service station in trouble for selling poor quality petrol
A service station in Burnside, Bulawayo, was taken to court for selling substandard petrol. Sydney Singende, 31, representing Flo Burnside Service Station, pleaded guilty before Bulawayo magis...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 14:51hrs | 1007 | by Staff reporter
Court orders Zimra to return seized truck & reimburse sold cargo
The High Court has ordered the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to release a truck it had impounded, which was allegedly used to import an undeclared chemical. The truck and its cargo belonged to Si...Published: 01 Aug 2024 at 09:11hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's daily fuel consumption reaches 5 million litres
Daily fuel demand in Zimbabwe has reached 5 million litres, with petrol accounting for 2 million litres and diesel for 3 million litres, according to Dr. Sosten Ziuku, director of energy conservation ...Published: 27 Jun 2024 at 06:44hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
NOIC suffers blow in US$160,000 arbitration award
The High Court has ruled in favor of the contractor in a dispute with the National Oil Infrastructure Company of Zimbabwe (NOIC) overpayment for supplying and installing instrumentation, control, and ...Published: 28 May 2024 at 09:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NOIC loses US$164 000 suit
The High Court has ordered the National Oil Infrastructure Company (NOIC) to pay US$164,631 to a company that repaired its Mabvuku ethanol plant, after rejecting NOIC's attempt to challenge the arbitr...Published: 22 May 2024 at 09:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Indian business mogul tried to defraud Zimbabwean govt over $100 million
Documents obtained by NewZimbabwe reveal that Ashok Jain, an Indian businessman, attempted to defraud the Zimbabwean government of over US$100 million in a dubious deal. According to these doc...Published: 03 Apr 2024 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's niece out on US$500 bail
ZIMBABWE Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya, arrested Tuesday on a charge of defrauding an Indian businessman of US$1 million in a botched mine acquisition deal, has been released on US$50...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 17:15hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Indian soldiers in murky deals
SUSPECTED former Indian army officers, who have been operating in Mozambique's troubled northern province of Cabo Delgado region, have reportedly settled in Zimbabwe, where they are allegedly operatin...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare's haven of sex, drugs and vice
Esnath first traded sex at age 13, after she was forced out of her family home in Harare's old suburb of Mbare.To survive, she decided to lie about her age, she said, taking refuge with a grou...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe millers warn of rice price hikes
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has approached the Treasury to scrap the 15% value-added tax (VAT) on rice, warning that the levy will hit consumer spending.The developments c...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 09:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US$11m LP gas depot complete
GAS supplies are now more assured with the operationalisation of the first phase of the US$11 million liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage and handling facility with a holding capacity of 650 tonnes ...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 06:51hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions US$7.3m plant
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday commissioned a US$7,3 million National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (NOIC) ethanol storage and handling facility, that will help save foreign currency, create employment and p...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:53hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fuel most expensive in Sadc
According to the latest report by the social justice watchdog, Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd), fuel prices in Zimbabwe are among the highest in the Southern African Development C...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Disqualified Zanu-PF candidate jailed 2 years
Disqualified candidate in the recently held Zanu-PF primary election for the Chipinge South House of Assembly seat, Robert Nyemudzo, was on Wednesday jailed an effective 18 months by a Chipinge magist...Published: 05 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Fake booze booms in Zimbabwe
Inside a grimy, poorly lit room in Mbare, one of Zimbabwe's most populous townships, a 45-year-old man sits on a makeshift stool as he pours a brownish liquid into small bottles.An alcoholic s...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 20:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bekithemba 'Super' Ndlovu takes over the reigns at Greenfuel FC
Former Warriors and Highlanders defender Bekithemba 'Super' Ndlovu has taken over the responsibility of head coach at Greenfuel FC, a position previously occupied by Lloyd 'Samaita' Mutasa.Ndl...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa leaps to defence of Ginimbi's ex
Zimbabwe has long struggled with the problem of drug and substance abuse with experts noting that a deepening economic crisis and the attendant poverty and despair have resulted in increasing numbers ...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt defends Rautenbach's ethanol project
GOVERMENT has said it would defend business tycoon Billy Rauntenbach's ethanol project in Chisumbanje where Chipinge villagers have been objecting to the operations following a land dispute.Ra...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Billy Rautenbach's Green Fuel 'settles' land disputes with villagers
Business tycoon Billy Rautenbach's Green Fuel Private Limited claims to have settled its drawn-out land disputes with villagers in Chipinge South through parcelling out one-acre fields of irrigated la...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister exposes vote-buying plot
LANDS and Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has unwittingly exposed Zanu-PF's plot to use State resources to buy votes ahead of next year's polls.Addressing villagers in the Chinyamukwakwa a...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police target highway criminals
Criminal syndicates operating around Ngundu Growth Point in southern Masvingo have been targeting accident victims along the Harare-Beitbridge highway, prompting police to launch an operation to bring...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe currency speculators cornered?
THE retreat of the recent inflation spiral is expected to accelerate, and purchasing power increase in light of recent pay rises without matching price rises, as speculative market forces are being co...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Fuel price drop must benefit consumers'
BUSINESSES should review prices of goods and services downwards in line with the recent decline in fuel prices, a Cabinet Minister has said.This comes as interventions by the Reserve Bank of Z...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fuel prices go down again
THE reduction in fuel prices by the Government continues as the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) reviewed prices effective yesterday.In an update, the regulatory authority reduced d...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 18:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Falling fuel prices ease pressure on consumers
The sustained drop in fuel prices, which saw prices being reviewed downwards twice over a two-week period this month owing to falling international crude ...Published: 31 Jul 2022 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Fuel prices cut a relief for Zimbabwe motorists
Maximum fuel prices were cut yesterday from US$1,76 to US1,70 a litre for petrol and from US$1,86 to US$1,80 for diesel.Regulator Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) announced the chan...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Efforts to end loadshedding by November stepped up
The problems at the huge Hwange Power Station and the small Harare station have been corrected, while negotiations are ongoing for the importation of more electricity as a short-term measure to lessen...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:34hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans resort to bikes amid soaring fuel prices
SOARING fuel costs and the economic crunch in Zimbabwe are leading people to switch to using bicycles as their main mode of transport.Over the past year, the country has seen petrol prices jum...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Filling station sells petrol contaminated with water
A FUEL garage in Lupane is reportedly selling water contaminated petrol and a number of vehicles that were served at the filling station last week have been affected.Three cars reportedly fail...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fuel prices up, again after govt pledged to lower the pump price
FUEL prices have gone up, hardly a week after government pledged to lower the pump price after increasing ethanol blending from E10 to E20.The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) said ...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt reduces fuel prices
Mandatory blending of ethanol in unleaded petrol has been increased from 10 percent to 20 percent at the end of this month to reduce fuel price increases on the global market and give a relief to ...Published: 18 May 2022 at 18:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt raises mandatory fuel blending to E20
GOVERNMENT yesterday announced mandatory blending of fuel with ethanol, increasing it from E-10 to E-20, a move which could set it on a collision course with motorists.This was announced at a ...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ethanol blending up increased to 20% to kill injectors
Mandatory blending of ethanol in unleaded petrol has been increased from 10 percent to 20 percent at the end of this month to reduce fuel price increases on the global market and give a relief to ...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Blending helping reduce fuel prices, claims Zera
ZIMBABWE's fuel could have been much more expensive had it not been for the reintroduction of blending, Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has said, notwithstanding that its price is now the ...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zera's continued excessive fuel price increases worry Zimcodd
The Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has expressed worry over the continued excessive increase of fuel price by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera).The worry ca...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 08:06hrs | 9 | by Stephen Jakes
Fuel hikes to worsen economic woes
GOVERNMENT yesterday increased prices of petrol and diesel by 23.78% and 18.23% respectively, a move that economists said will result in a hike in prices of basic goods and services and further erode ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean toast fuel price cut
The cut in fuel prices by 8 US cents a litre following Government tax cuts has been welcomed by businesses and motorists who have been feeling the pinch after prices rose swiftly following the big jum...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blocks another fuel price increase
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has directed the Government to enforce domestic remedies, including a reduction of duty on petroleum products, to control the price of fuel which went up last week on account of ge...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 4 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
Firing of 'Mudha' Ncube attracts mixed reactions in Midlands
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa fired his long-time ally and confidant, former State Security minister Owen "Mudha" Ncube (pictured) on Monday for misconduct, some of the Midlands hardliner's staunc...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe abandons mandatory ethanol blending, reduces fuel prices
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) yesterday scrapped the mandatory fuel blending directive introduced in 2011.The introduction of mandatory blending came against the backdrop of ...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:07hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
SA consumers face higher prices in 2022
Various product prices are rising rapidly across the globe as the world opens after months of lockdown. As a result, food prices have been in the headlines, and SA is no exception.As a case in...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Distributor moves to stem Zimbabwe's fake whiskey 'pandemic'
IMITATION is the sincerest form of flattery, the old adage goes, but when it comes to alcohol, high-end whiskey in particular, this is not strictly true.Recently, according to an anonymous sou...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:51hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa surrounded by dodgy characters
ALMOST four years after getting into power, riding on the narrative of removing criminals that had surrounded the then president Robert Mugabe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's circle of associates and ...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:36hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
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