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The City of Harare says a twinning agreement with the South Korean city of Cheonan provides an opportunity to access concessional funding to address the Zimbabwean capital’s housing challenges.

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Workers at Zimbabwe’s sole ethanol producer, Green Fuel, have gone on strike after going for seven months without being paid, paralysing operations at its Chisumbanje plant, officials said today.

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Mbada Diamonds, one of Zimbabwe’s largest diamond miners, has dismissed 240 employees who went on strike last Friday over unpaid salaries but the workers union said that it will challenge the dismissals.

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Opportunities for greatness come only once. Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai missed his opportunity in 2008 when he won the elections but ran away to Botswana, United States-based Zimbabwean political commentator Ken Mufuka says.

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Transport Minister Obert Mpofu has admitted that the National Railways of Zimbabwe, once one of the nation’s biggest employers, has no money to pay its workers who are owed 11 months’ salary.

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Workers at Mbada Diamonds, one of Zimbabwe’s largest miners, have downed tools in protest against going for eight months with no pay and to demand better working conditions.

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Zimbabwe’s power utility is owed close to $1 billion as government departments, public enterprises and a number of local authorities have failed to settle their electricity bills, Parliament heard today.

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Zimbabwe tourism group, Africa Albida Tourism (AAT) says its historical and recreational park Santonga, which it is building in the resort town of Victoria Falls at a cost of $18 million, is on track to open in 2017.

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