The Mount Meru Group was attracted into Zimbabwe by His Excellency the President from its Dubai base. It specialises in cooking oil and wants to diversify into fuels and other areas. The plant will employ about 1000 Zimbabweans, with the Group moving full throttle to sponsor soya
…and sunflower. Their focus is rural industrialisation. They have footprint in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia where they have changed rural farmers through the growing of oils. The factory is operating at 3% capacity. Input is direly needed.
Zimbabwe continues to attract capital from non-traditional sources. The Mount Meru Group has been facing challenges from cartels who have dominated edible oils and have been erecting barriers to entry.
The President happily welcomed the Group’s plan to sponsor outgrowers, particularly rural farmers. The President made it clear cartels will be broken for greater price stability and consumer protection. The President opened his door to to the Group which has validated Govt’s
…rural industrialisation.
The President tours the plant.
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MORE INFORMATION ON HWANGE 7: Synchronisation of Generator 7 will take two weeks at which point an entire 300megawatts will be added to the grid. Like I said, power is gradually introduced to the system. Even after those two weeks, the generator will be running on and off at
….periodic times to allow engineers to assess certain parameters and moving parts. WHEN DO WE START GENERATOR 8, SO WE HAVE THE FULL 600 MEGAWATTS, some of you may be asking. All things being equal, we start testing GENERATOR 8 from May 15, to complete the whole process around
September/October. WHAT’S HAPPENING TO GENERATORS 1 to 6? These have either been mothballed or working at reduced levels. ZPC Engineers are busy doing diagnostics of each generator to determine the remedial interventions needed for each. Only then will we be able to determine the
BRIEFING ZIMBABWEANS: Hard on the heels of the coming on the main grid of Hwange 7 is Hwange 8 which should see a total of 600 megawatts added to the national grid. What delayed the process was procurement and operation of a special computer which handles both new and old units
…smoothly to avoid failure. The computer uses special software and requires high-tech skills to operate. We secured both. The other delay relates to the last works on the new transmitter line which was riddled by a few legal challenges caused by old landowners around Bulawayo.
They wanted extortionate compensation to allow this high voltage line to pass through their land. It is all sorted now. Once all these are done, focus shifts to rehabilitation of Hwange 1-6 generators whose efficiency levels must be restored so the whole unit works optimally to
Anyone who is aware of the West’s strategy during the Mugabe-Mandela era will be familiar with the import of this cheap propaganda stuff which lay scholars now call SOURCES! The West feared a Mugabe-Mandela Alliance and successful planted an intelligence-driven counter-narrative
…designed to drive a wedge and rivalry between the two leaders. The fear was that a combination to Mugabe’s resoluteness on about everything, including Land and Politics, and Mandela’s symbolic capital as the world’s most famous prisoner, would create a powerful alliance and
…counterpoint to the West and her interests. Unfortunately, Mandela and his Administration then fell for that, compounded by Mandela’s desire to dodge issues of transforming the apartheid politico-socio-economy, as preferred by Mugabe, in favour of rainbow symbolism. The tipping
HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, DR E.D. MNANGAGWA IS NOW IN MALABO, EQUATORIAL GUINEA AT THE START OF A THREE-DAY STATE VISIT. The President was in Malabo late last year for the inauguration of his counterpart. Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea enjoy broad-based relations including in
…areas of security, energy and manpower development. Apart from importing oil from Equatorial Guinea, Zimbabwe played host to several students from Equatorial Guinea who horned various skills in Zimbabwean institutions. Several agreements are set to be signed during the State
Visit. The President is accompanied by Foreign Minister Dr F. Shava, Finance Minister, Prof. Ncube and several government officials.
THE CONTRAST COULD NEVER BE MORE STARK: Zanu-PF has just completed its elections for the Central Committee, itself the Party’s highest body between Congresses. It was elections everywhere, with average participation across provinces hitting above 80%. The turn-up was high, the
…process deeply elective, democratic. The results were as much surprising as they were renewing to the Party of Liberation which has also shown itself to be the House of Democracy. The new, the old, the familiar, the unfamiliar, the young, the old: all found space in the
…electoral process. And then, barely a day later, al, became quiet in the aftermath of the process, to show a party at peace with itself, its internal processes! This is Zanu-PF, the ruling Party and only Party of Zimbabwe’s Liberation and now, of National Development. The