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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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The country’s sole button manufacturing company Life Gear Trading, formerly Coronet Buttons and Plastics, is now consolidating its local market share after stabilising operations and managing to break even.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign, which has already brought down many high-ranking “tigers” in the government, has been widely touted as a key component of the deep structural reforms that China needs if it is to build a more sustainable, inclusive, and market-based economy. But worries abound that, in a country where government officials play a major role in promoting economic growth, rooting out corruption might undermine prosperity.

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Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa will have to up his game to prove that masamba asiyana in his quest to curb corruption because the majority of Zimbabweans have resigned themselves that no one can do anything to end the scourge.

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