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SA fuel helps alleviate shortage

    JOHANNESBURG

    Alleviating Zimbabwe’s crippling three-month fuel shortage, eight tankers of petrol and five carrying diesel fuel arrived in Harare this week from the giant South African oil company SASOL, according to news reports on Monday.

    The reports said Botswana and Zambia have also pledged to temporarily supply bulk fuel to Zimbabwe. The arrival of the South African fuel came as President Robert Mugabe visited Kuwait to secure oil supplies from the Gulf state. Last week, Mugabe’s office assumed the energy portfolio, following the resignation of the energy minister, Enos Chikowore, over the crisis.

    Zimbabwe and Kuwait have warm relations after Harare strongly backed a UN authorisation of military force to roll back Iraq’s 1990 invasion of the Gulf state, PANA news agency said.

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