Zimbabwe: ZERA Intensifies Fuel Quality Testing

2 October 2014

THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) is intensifying fuel quality testing countrywide following the acquisition of a mobile fuel quality testing laboratory. The mobile fuel quality testing laboratory was in Manicaland last week where ZERA officials tested the quality of fuel at several service stations in Mutare, Birchenough Bridge and Chipinge. Although the two Zera officials who were doing the testing refused to grant this reporter an interview in Chipinge last Friday, Zera chief executive, Engineer Gloria Magombo, said the fuel quality testing was a permanent exercise that was aimed at ensuring that the quality of fuel on the market was safe.

In a telephone interview, Engineer Magombo said preliminary results have been fairly good.

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