ZIMBABWE’S Minister of Energy and Power Development, Retired Lieutenant-General Mike Nyambuya is in Equatorial Guinea meeting his counterpart to negotiate an oil deal which will help ease the current fuel shortages in the country, the Zimbabwe Guardian has learnt.
Sources say the deal with Equatorial Guinea was a purely commercial energy trading agreement and had nothing to do with the current trial of mercenary and ‘Dog of War’ Simon Mann, as critics had speculated.
Simon Mann is currently facing trial in the west African state for trying to topple the government of President Teodoro Nguema. The coup plot was foiled when the mercenaries were captured in Zimbabwe.
Government sources confirmed that a deal had now been signed with the government of Equatorial Guinea. The energy resources are to be bought and sold at market rates on the Zimbabwean market.
President Mugabe recently confirmed this deal during his election campaign in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest city.
"The Minister (of Energy and Power Development) is there (Equatorial Guinea) to negotiate for more fuel and also for us to get it more regularly."
The government last week launched a fuel subsidy scheme in Bulawayo which enabled passenger transporters to reduce their fares from $2 billion a trip to $500 million.
The President said the Government was committed to ensuring that the transport sector got more reliable fuel supplies.
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Gabriella, Newcastle • na Subject: CAN WE HAVE A NEW LAW, NOW? Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:45:01 • What do you mean by saying, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. then it is Gweru, Zimbabwe's third largest city. then it will be Masvingo, and then it will be where??? this is a ridiculous way of listing of our towns where our extended families all reside.
CAN we have a new law in Zimbabwe now, please, that just does not apply to our President, agenist whom you are not allowed to say anything derogatory?
can this new law now be that -
If you cant say anything nice about ANYONE, dont say anything at all.
its time to turn over a new leaf - provided you can find a tree that has not been chopped down!
and, as we are supposedly, a nation of Christians, izinit time now for all the Anglicans and everyone in MDC and ZanuPF to show forgiveness and LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR? God said, if my people will humble themselves... and pray ... I will heal their land!
Dave • server2@yahoo.com Subject: Third world Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:57:59 • Like it or not Zimbabwe is third world if not fourth or fifth. Zimbabwe is not as advanced economically, technologically, financially, educationally, infrastructurally etc etc as other nations. So yes, Zimbabwe is third world because it describes the condition of the nation. You sound like a short person who would prefer to be called virtically challenged.
n/a • n/a Subject: yep Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:42:15 • I agree. That's why I use the term: other world, rather than second or third world. No people are second or third on this earth to any other people
samas • n/a Subject: n/a Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:20:00 • Why are you being defensive in terms S Mann's trial and the fuel deal? You may not separate the two. Before this coup story no-one in Zimbabwe cared to write about E. Guinea. Many Zimbabweans did not even know its geography, but its big news now. This deal is a payback to the Zim govt.
professor • na Subject: look and learn Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:39:07 • this drives me craaaaaaaaaaaazy!!
anytime anyone mentions Bulawayo, they always feel they must justify its existence by saying arbitary words like, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's SECOND largest city!
Its a waste of words and waste of paper and waste of space and in this day and age is just not efficient.
Coming second everytime indicates NOT COMING FIRST! It is wrong to belittle our extended family in this manner. It causes splits and God knows we should be pulling together, not splitting the nation.
There are enuf idiots doing that comparing us as the third world with the first world. how does that make you feel? inferior? suddenly now, because that was belittling and politically incorrect, its they are now calling us the Developing World and themselves the Developed World.
Why not just state, City of Bulawayo? Or capital city of Matabeleland? Or City of Gweru, capital city of the Midlands. That should put the cat amongst the pigeons, eh?
To get CITY status a village/town (according to Wikipedia) has a cathedral, or a university, which automatically designates it as a city and therefore, Bulawayo is a City. This rule is found in the United Kingdom.
Does Gweru have a cathedral or a university (Midlands State University)? Therefore it is a city. Any learned person knows what a CITY designates.
A city is a place where many people live together. A city has many buildings and streets. It has houses or apartments for many people to live, shops where they may buy things, places for people to work and a government organisation to run the city, and to keep law and order in the city.
Many people live in cities because it is easy for them to find and do the things they want there. A city usually has a city centre where government and business takes place, and suburbs where people live around the outside of the centre.
It is THE CITY OF BULAWAYO, not Bulawayo, the second largest city in the country!
If things had gone right it THE CITY OF GWERU would have been the capital city of Zimbabwe because it is right in the middle of our state.
Tendai, this is not getting at you, shamwari. Everyone does it because everything thinks it is correct to say, the second largest city in the country, but as a battered mealie, sorry, a Matabele, I find it degrading. We have really got to stop this brain washing one another!
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