Zimbabwe opens first biofuel production facility
Filed under: Biodiesel, Manufacturing/Plants, Africa

Zimbabwe has opened the first biodiesel plant in its territory. Considered the fifth largest one in the world, the plant was built in Transload, 15 km north of the capital Harare. The capital came from a joint venture of Zimbabwean and South-Korean companies and is expected to produce about 100 million liters of biodiesel per year from wheat, soy and sun-flower seeds.
It is expected that this plant will help the country save $80 million in imported oil. Something very necessary for a country which is currently under international sanctions against president Robert Mugabe.
[Source: Afrol news]











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11-20-2007 @ 4:23PM
Arnie said...
...is expected to produce about 100 million liters of biodiesel per year from wheat, soy and sun-flower seeds.
Aren't people starving in Zimbabwe??????
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11-24-2007 @ 3:15AM
Synclare said...
Well,there are people starving all over the world.The few white people in AFRICA are hindering the progress and wealth of it,that is why AFRICA is turning to other countries who play a fair game.Look,with the amount of riches AFRICA has even with corruption black people should not be living in slums.I know whites were producing and so forth but they are the ones responsible for the problems in AFRICA,how,without mentioning owning 80% of the land and the so called keeping blacks at bay they used british banks instead of local banks(well most of them)which helped fund welfares,wars,infrastructures and the like of those who call themselves first world.Please tell me how a continent so rich owes the world bank and they try to look like their doing us a favour by cancelling debt.They sent their children to come and steal,rape and kill,one hand a bible the other a gun.Now who are they going to give credit to when mighty ZIMBABWE comes back to life and blacks are going to finally own their country,would it be MUGABE,are they going to give him his degrees back let alone the commonwealth and oh by the way knighthood.Let me make myself clear we as AFRICANS do not care about nitty gritties because the commonwealth is nonsence it is just a tool to remind blacks who their master was,we will do fine by ourselves thank you very much and our master is the creator JAHOVAH with his son JESUS CHRIST our KING.I know that there are bad people in every race but a lot of whites take the cup and their biggest fear is losing SOUTH AFRICA.Can you imagine what blacks would do when they see ZIMBABWE
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11-24-2007 @ 3:19AM
Synclare said...
CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN ZIMBABWE PULLES OUT OF ITS CRISES AND BLACKS OWN WHAT'S RIGHTFULLY THERES AND ARE FINALLY ENJOYING THE FULL FRUITS....WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN SOUTH AFRICA.WHY IS THERE SO MUCH CRIME IN SOUTH AFRICA,IT'S THE POVERTY IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY ANOTHER CREATION BY OUR WHITE FRIENDS(KEEPING ALL THE RICHES).VIVA AFRICA
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11-24-2007 @ 4:48PM
Jakea;ope said...
Sure, the blacks are taking back what is theres. I'm sure this will boost their self esteem as they starve or die from easily prevented diseases. Meanwhile they lack the morals, skills and intelligence to manage the old white farms so that is why this retarded Marxist ape and his mindless minions are running Zimbabwe into the ground. This plan sounds like typical African stupidity. They will probably use as much oil as they make just growing and transporting the seeds. Africa is the pits of the world thanks to the stupid scum who live there. They have ruined what the colonials built up and now live off of international handouts.
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11-24-2007 @ 7:52PM
Synclare said...
YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS JAKEA,WHAT KIND OF PERSON WOULD THINK THAT WAY.I GUESS THE ONES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE.JUST WANNA LET YOU KNOW THAT I AM NOT ZANU-PF,MIGHT JOIN.THEY SAY MUGABE RIGGED ELECTIONS BUT YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED HOW MANY OF US SUPPORT HIM.PEOPLE IN ZIMBABWE LIVE IN HARDSHIP RIGHT NOW AND IT IS NORMAL TO REBEL AGAINST MUGABE,THAT IS NOT THE CASE TRUST ME.THERE WILL OBVIOUSLY BE A CROWD THAT DO NOT LIKE HIM,LOOK AT CUBA OR IRAN-EVEN THE U.S. THINKS BUSH IS THE WORST IN HISTORY.SO YOU NEED TO DO SOME GROWING OR WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE.THOSE CRAPY RHODESIANS TOLD MY FAMILY AND I THAT WE WERE COLOUREDS AND NOT BLACK,WHO DO THEY THINK THEY WERE.BRITAIN HAD PLANS TO INVADE ZIMBABWE,I WOULD BUY THAT AIRLINE TICKET IN A HEART BEAT TO DEFEND MY COUNTRY----3 CHIMURENGA.YOU SAID WE ARE STUPID AFRICANS,THATS OK,WE WILL BE STUPID FULL OWNERS OF OUR LAND AND TEACH OURSELVES.SO AGAIN...VIVA AFRICA
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11-25-2007 @ 12:33PM
Synclare said...
I WONDER HOW A SMALL COUNTRY WITHOUT THE BULK OF NATURAL RESOURCES BE GNP SOUND.I BET YOU THERE IS SOME CROOKERY INVOLVED OR MAYBE WHO EVER THEY ARE DUPPING OUT OF THE STUFF THAT BRINGS UP THEIR OWN PEOPLE ARE REALLY DUMB TO REALISE IT.THAT'S WHERE MUGABE COME IN,WE WILL BE THE CONTROLLERS OF OUR OWN DESTINY EVEN IF IT MEANS SUFFERATION FOR YEARS TO COME.WE WILL PULL OUT OF THIS MESS AND NEVER IN A THOUSAND YEARS KISS THE BACKSIDE OF THE WEST.IF THE WEST WANTS TO DEAL FAIR WE WILL DEAL BECAUSE WE ARE NOT IGNORANT.IF IT MEANS OUR CHILDREN OR GRAND CHILDREN WOULD REEP THE REWARDS AND WE SUFFER AT THE HANDS OF WESTERN SANCTIONS AND CURRENCY MINIPULATION-SO BE IT.THE ENGLISH MAN WINSTON SAID...YOU ARE ENGLISH,YOU HAVE WON FIRST PRIZE IN THE LOTTERY OF LIFE.HE FORGOT THE WORDS IN ENGLAND.WE NEED TO WORK TOWARD ONE CURRENCY IN AFRICA,THAT WOULD HINDER EFFORTS BY ECONOMIC HIJACKERS TO DISTURB A COUNTRY'S PROGRESS.WANTS AGAIN,I DID NOT SUFFER AS MUCH LIKE BLACKS MAYBE BECAUSE THEY TOLD ME I WAS COLOURED AND MY WIFE RIGHT NOW IS WHITE BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY MUGABE IS RIGHT(FOR BLACKS)--VIVA AFRICA.
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11-25-2007 @ 8:15PM
Synclare said...
A human-rights organisation has claimed that Kenyan police killed as many as 8,040 people by execution or torture during a crackdown on a banned sect.
The group said a further 4,070 people had gone missing as security forces tried to wipe out the Mungiki sect.
The deaths and disappearances occurred over five years up to August 2007, said the Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid Clinic-Kenya
HOW MANY HAS MUGABE KILLED????????????????
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11-26-2007 @ 4:52PM
Jakealope said...
If you think that starving and bankrupting your country is some noble effort, than Mugabe is your man. All I see, whether it's the Sudan, Rhodesia or Haiti, is that the average black run country is a latrine pit. Communism never delvered the goods, just more famine like 1932 in Russia or Ethiopia in the 80's . That Mugabe thinks this is a good model shows his criminally retarded mentality of him and his fellow Mau Maus. Just remember, the smallest country in Europe has a greater GNP than all of black Africa, Ever stop to wonder why?
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3-13-2008 @ 1:15PM
PM said...
Divide and conquer, one of the oldest strategies there is, but it still distracts people from seeing the truth about problems and their solutions. Hopefully the emerging generation of people growing up through this mess will be a lot smarter than today's one that's falling for the tricks of politicians, both foreign and domestic. People who believe the primitive, antiquated superstition that there is more than one human race are easy prey for those more intelligent and less moral than themselves. We're all going to benefit as technologies like EVs continue to become more available worldwide.
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6-23-2008 @ 1:25PM
Ad P said...
One currency in Africa eh Synclare? That's a brilliant idea: then you could have hyper-inflation EVERYWHERE, not just Zimbabwe.
Can't respond to much else as it was unintelligible nonsense.
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