Zimbabwe Gvt Fails To Upgrade The Feruka, Oil Refinery Plant, Which is Now A Write Off,

Zimbabwe Gvt Fails To Upgrade The Feruka, Oil Refinery Plant, Which is Now  A Write Off,

MUTARE: Feruka Refinery Plant which was constructed in 1965 during the then Rhodesia is now a complete right off, operating as storage facility only after government failed to upgrade the facility. The plant only operated for 15 months and is now currently used as a loading, storage and blending facility without the refinery aspect. Petro-Zim general manager, Cathrine Katsande said it was cheaper to construct a new plant than to refurbish the existing one. Currently,…

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Civil Service Retrenchments Planned, Yet Almost 60 Ministers In 3rd Reshuffle In Less Than One Year

Civil Service Retrenchments Planned, Yet Almost 60 Ministers In 3rd Reshuffle In Less Than One Year

Zimbabwe’s despot president  Robert Mugabe has delivered, what can only be described as a cabinet reshuffle that is insensitive to the prevailing circumstances affecting the people , through an expansion of  what is already considered by many to be a bloated cabinet, in a  third cabinet reshuffle in less than a year. In the face of the government’s excessively huge wage bill, a broke government and dead economy, Mugabe  on Friday chose to appoint 14 new ministers, including deputies and a…

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Tsvangirai, Presents ‘Electoral Reform Demands’ That Make Mugabe Sweat

Tsvangirai, Presents ‘Electoral Reform Demands’ That Make Mugabe Sweat

BELOW is the speech my MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai when he presented his party’s electoral reform demands in Harare on Thursday. Introduction and national context We meet today (Thursday) amid a serious national crisis where ordinary Zimbabweans are struggling to make ends meet and to put food on the table. We meet in the context of a grim economic and social reality in which families are struggling to just survive, at a time when a…

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Biti Open To Coalition With Mujuru, Ncube, Makoni, Madhuku, Dabengwa But Not Tsvangirai

Biti Open To Coalition With Mujuru, Ncube, Makoni, Madhuku, Dabengwa But Not Tsvangirai

FORMER Finance Minister Tendai Biti literally slammed the door in the face of his erstwhile comrade MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai but indicated he was willing to work with former Zanu PF second in command Joice Mujuru and her People First project. In his address to his MDC-Renewal now People’s Democratic Party congress in Harare Thursday, Biti said he would also revive re-unification talks with former industry minister Welshman Ncube’s MDC as well as coalition talks…

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Mugabe Swears In New Cabinet, In Reshuffle Announced Friday

Mugabe Swears In New  Cabinet, In  Reshuffle Announced Friday

CHRISTOPHER MUSHOHWE became the new information minister in a cabinet reshuffle announced by President Robert Mugabe Friday afternoon. Mugabe swore in new ministers to fill posts left vacant following the sacking of some ministers linked to former vice president Joice Mujuru. A number of ministers were fired alongside Mujuru while others were redeployed. Mushohwe takes over from Prisca Mupfumira who was acting following the redeployment of Jonathan Moyo to the higher and tertiary education portfolio…

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Home Affairs Minister, ‘Mugabe’s Cousin, ‘Ignatius Chombo’ Warns Corrupt Cops’

Home Affairs Minister, ‘Mugabe’s Cousin, ‘Ignatius Chombo’ Warns Corrupt Cops’

HOME Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo has said the government will not hesitate to dismiss corrupt cops following the dismissal of about 300 crooked police officers last year. Speaking at the graduation of 159 police officers at Ntabazinduna Police Training Depot yesterday, Minister Chombo said officers with a penchant for corrupt deeds will be flushed out of the system. “We need to have a police force with an impeccable reputation for honesty and integrity. The job…

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‘MDC-T. Tsvangirai Was A Thief , And His MDC T Party Is Founded On Violence’-Says Tendai Biti

‘MDC-T.  Tsvangirai Was A Thief , And His MDC T Party Is Founded On Violence’-Says Tendai Biti

Tendai Biti has laid into his former boss, MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai, describing him as a thief who should be ashamed of demanding terminal perks from the Zanu-PF government. The Renewal Team leader’s latest statements are seen as denting hopes of the opposition forming a successful coalition that would challenge Zanu-PF at the 2018 elections. Biti’s team, which split from the MDC-T in early 2014, is expected to transform into a political party – the…

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‘Biti Apologises For GNU Collective Idiocy & For Letting Zimbabwe Down During , GNU’

‘Biti Apologises For GNU Collective Idiocy & For Letting Zimbabwe Down During , GNU’

Tendai Biti once again admit and apologize to the nation for letting the nation down during the GNU by failing to get even one democratic reform implemented in five years. “We feared failing you. We could not sleep afraid of embarrassing ourselves,” said Tendai Biti at the inaugural congress of the People Democratic Party (PDP). The name MDC Renewal has been ditched for the new name PDP. 

”We have been disappointed by our own collective…

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Zanu-PF Requires US$3m For 15th National People`s Conference In December In Victoria Falls

Zanu-PF Requires US$3m For 15th National People`s Conference In December In Victoria Falls

The ruling Zanu-PF party says it will require $3 million to meet all expenses for the 15th National People`s Conference which will be held in the resort town of Victoria Falls in December. The party’s National Political Commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere met the Local Organising Committee, the Matabeleland North provincial leadership and key stakeholders in Victoria Falls to discuss various issues to be sorted out for the successful hosting of the conference. $3 million is required…

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International Monetary Fund (IMF) Statemment Reveals Mugabe’s Mass Civil Service Cull

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) Wednesday issued a statement that effectively sold out President Robert Mugabe’s plan to fire thousands of civil servants. An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr. Domenico Fanizza visited Harare from August 31 to September 11, 2015 to conduct the second review under the 15-month Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) approved by Management in November 2014 (see Press Release No. 14/504). The mission reached a staff level agreement on policies for…

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