Chisumbanje

By Lungelo Ndhlovu Catherine Mazorodze was overworked and tired when she quit her job as a farmworker in Zimbabwe’s Manicaland province. No job meant she was also homeless, along with her grandmother with whom she had shared a small home…
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CHAOS reigned last week at Chisumbanje ethanol plant after Green Fuel called in riot police to disperse its employees who were on strike over the non-payment of salaries. The workers have gone for seven months without pay.
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Villagers surrounding Checheche Growth Point in south-eastern Zimbabwe are facing the traumatic prospect of landlessness as rent-seeking land developers, the Green Fuel company, a local politician and local government officials are caught…
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Six villagers in Chinyamukwakwa village in Chisumbanje, Manicaland province have been left nursing injuries sustained from a brutal assault perpetrated by police officers following a land ownership dispute involving Green Fuels Private…
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Human life, animals and underground water are at the mercy of extinction and pollution by waste matter discharged by Green Fuel’s ethanol production in Chisumbanje, with some people in the area reportedly now partially blind, while others…
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RELATIVES of 24 people who perished in an ethanol tanker explosion in Chisumbanje were yesterday wrangling over the remains of the victims, stalling the identification process. The remains were at Chipinge District Hospital mortuary.
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Twenty-one people have been killed in a road accident at the 20 kilometre-peg along the Tanganda-Chisumbanje road towards Middle Sabi. Most of the most of the dead were burnt beyond recognition.
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It has emerged that police in Chisumbanje last week fired shots into the air and used teargas to disperse angry villagers demanding their land back from Macdom, the company running the Ethanol plant.
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On Wednesday an Inter-Ministerial Committee chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara and looking into the stalled Chisumbanje Ethanol Project issued a statement summarizing their investigations and recommendations.
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A cabinet taskforce put together to investigate the controversial Chisumbanje ethanol project on Wednesday announced that Zimbabwe will introduce mandatory blending of fuel after changes to the ownership structure.
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