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Senior Reporter
POLICE are investigating a fake driver’s licence racket involving hundreds of motorists suspected to be using fake licences.
Breakaway Methodist church launched
Herald Reporter
FIVE reverends who recently broke away from the United Methodist Church, yesterday officially launched their new church,
Corporate Governance: A shared responsibility
Companies are non-state actors, which exist, have resources, means and aptitude, to make good and bad decisions which
10 years for killing brother
Farai Kuvirimirwa Herald Correspondent
A GOKWE man, who fatally stabbed his brother following an altercation over use of family cattle, was this week sent to jail for an
Woman gets suspended sentence for pouring hot oil on co-tenant
Court Reporter
A 35-YEAR-OLD Mt Hampden woman who poured hot oil on a co-tenant in revenge for an altercation the latter had had with
Suspects in US$200 000 Beitbridge heist on bail
Beitbridge Bureau
THREE of the four suspects accused of armed robbery involving US$200 000, that occurred a fortnight ago, at the Beitbridge
Employers should take heed of President Mugabe’s advice
We urge employers to take heed of President Mugabe’s advice to provide decent accommodation for their employees to
Ethanol plant to serve 70 percent fuel needs
Sydney Kawadza Assistant News Editor
THE massive Chisumbanje ethanol plant is sitting on one million litres of fuel produced in three weeks when production commenced.
The US$600 million project, initiated last year, is expected to provide 70 percent of Zimbabwe’s fuel needs.
Experts in the fuel sector say the project is likely to result in significant reduction in the price of petrol and a steady supply of the commodity on the market.
The project is a joint venture between the Agriculture and Rural Development Authority (Arda) and Green Fuel Private Limited.
In an interview yesterday after the tour of the massive plant in Chisumbanje, Arda board chairman, Mr Basil Nyabadza, said the plant could start distributing the ethanol fuel to processors for blending with petrol this week.
“We are expecting to get a licence from the regulatory authority anytime this week. We hope that the distribution would also commence as soon as we get the licence.
He, however, could not disclose to what extent it was going affect the current price of petrol, which was between US$1,36 and US$1,46.
Chimoio shrine visit an eye opener
Lloyd Gumbo recently in CHIMOIO, Mozambique
ZIMBABWEAN youths should be taught the country’s history to enable them to preserve the legacy
China donates US$14m food to Zim
Herald Reporter
CHINA has donated food worth US$14 million to Zimbabwe to help people in districts affected by drought last farming season.
Chinese Embassy political section official Ms Liu Dan said last Friday that the food in the form of rice and wheat would be shipped to Zimbabwe soon.
“China and Zimbabwe share a deep bond of traditional friendship. China is ready to assist our good friend, good brother and good partner, within our capacity at any time.”
The Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development, Dr Joseph Made, said in an interview that modalities were already in place to receive and distribute the food.