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Garwe under fire for alleged land grab benefiting Mnangagwa ally
Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe is once again embroiled in a controversial land seizure scandal, this time accused of stripping residential stands from nearly 100 former Members of Parliament (...Published: 19 May 2025 at 09:15hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's white ally in land grab scandal?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly behind the imminent eviction of a number of productive indigenous farmers, including war veterans and the reigning young farmer of the year from Goromonzi, M...Published: 01 Mar 2025 at 09:31hrs | 3434 | 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 | 6266 | by Staff reporter
ZERA increases fuel prices in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has announced a fuel price adjustment for diesel and petrol blend, impacting prices in both Zimbabwean dollars and US dollars. The new rates, effective ...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 16:24hrs | 8997 | by Staff reporter
Fuel prices drop by US$0,02 in Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has reduced fuel prices by US$0,02, but hiked it in local currency.In a statement yesterday, Zera said diesel now costs US$1,86 down from US$1,8...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Foul play disguised as incompetence at the Competition and Tariff Commission
I am an avid reader and consumer of all things Competition and Anti Monopolies related. I believe in healthy competition and have learnt a thing or two from watching the American Sherman act evolve in...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 12:48hrs | 5 | by Thabo Nkiwane
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 | 3 | 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 | 11 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1 | 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 | 20 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
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 | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ditches fuel blending
Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has announced that the petrol blending ratio has been reduced to zero. In a statement, ZERA advised that the blending ratio has been reviewed from E...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 19:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
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: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:59hrs | | 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 | 11 | by Staff reporter
When 'skinning a live snake' is not working
SOON after Fortune Chasi was sworn in as Energy minister in May, he admitted that the country was in a rut. In spelling out his immediate plan to avert power shortages, Chasi vowed to skin a live snak...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Cliff Chiduku
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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
New fuel prices announced
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has announced new prices of fuel effective 29 April and 6 May 2019. The new prices are in line with the mandatory fuel blending that was announced in a...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 18:35hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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
Government enforces mandatory blending of fuel
The Minister of Energy and Power Development Jorum Gumbo on Wednesday gazzetted a mandatory blending of Anhydrous Ethanol with Unleaded Petrol.In a General Notice 740A of 2019 the Minister sai...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 21:24hrs | | 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
Govt allays fuel shortage fears
Government has assured the nation that there is enough fuel in the country and that there is no need for panic buying of petroleum products by motorists. This follows reports of fuel shortages at some...Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's coup hero status is washing off fast, by elections time the vote rigging thug is back
I remember the scenes in the Streets of Harare on Saturday 18 November 2017 as if it was only yesterday. It you were a soldier wearing ZDF uniform you were a hero per excellence! The nation and the wo...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Mnangagwa is Zimbabwe's richest man, not Masiyiwa'
Former Higher, Tertiary, Science and Technology minister Jonathan Moyo claims that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his coup allies staged a coup on 15 November to cover up massive and systematic loot...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Fuel prices go up
THE price of fuel went up this week by about three percent, on average, precipitated by poor sugarcane production in the Lowveld.At most filling stations, petrol prices have gone up by an aver...Published: 11 May 2017 at 21:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
PDP calls for probe on Rautenbach, Bredenkamp
The People's Democratic Party (PDP) demands the immediate establishment of a commission of inquiry to look into the Panama Papers following reports on how two businessmen with strong Zanu PF links avo...Published: 07 Apr 2016 at 14:20hrs | 1 | by Jacob Mafume - PDP National Spokesperson
Zimbabwe set to have a cassava ethanol producing plant
Zimbabwe is set to have a cassava ethanol producing plant to boost ethanol output as the country moves to accelerate mandatory fuel blending. Ministry of Energy and Power Development direc...Published: 30 Jul 2015 at 06:02hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Energy regulator threatens to withdraw fuel licences
Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has threatened to withdraw operating licences and prosecute errant fuel providers violating stipulated blending rules this year. Gloria Magombo,...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pull him down concept by parastatals not progressive
Recent developments in the country where high ranking officials in government and parastatals have chosen to go to the press to blast each other as if channels of negotiation have been closed are a ca...Published: 03 Jul 2014 at 12:46hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
Zimbabwe's new fuel blend E15 damages Nissan vehicles
ZIMBABWEANS driving Nissan vehicles risk having their cars damaged following government's decision to increase blending of ethanol with unleaded petrol from 10% (E10) to 15% (E15) despite car manufact...Published: 06 Dec 2013 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chisumbanje sugar cane set ablaze, suspected arson attack
OVER 500 hectares of sugar cane worth US$5 million belonging to Green Fuel in Chisumbanje went up in smoke on Tuesday in a suspected case of arson. Police were, however, not available for comme...Published: 28 May 2013 at 20:34hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chisumbanje ethanol plant resumes operations
GREEN Fuel resumed operations at its ethanol plant here yesterday, raising prospects that the country could soon start the mandatory blending of fuel that has been on the cards for sometime.Th...Published: 25 Mar 2013 at 20:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mandatory fuel blending rules gazetted
GOVERNMENT has gazetted regulations making it mandatory for all licensed oil companies to sell petrol blended with a minimum of 5 percent of locally-produced ethanol. The move, it is hoped, will bring...Published: 14 Feb 2013 at 04:41hrs | | by Business Editor
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