BUDDY, CAN YOU SPARE A LITRE?

THE National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (Noczim) an organisation that owns no oil, has built no service stations, developed no oil depots, operated no road tanker fleet, run no petroleum quality laboratories, whose sole purpose is bureaucratic and which, incidentally, has possibly the worst credit record in history, is travelling Africa with begging bowl outstretched. So far the bowl is empty. Having drawn a blank in Kuwait, Iran, Libya, Sudan and Angola, the Zimbawean mendicants are now trying their luck in Equatorial Guinea, a country that matches Zimbabwe in its attempts to emulate a gangster state. Here's an idea from Spigot: Why not try Venezuela? Send Spigot's commission ASAP. Diamonds are acceptable. Zimbabwe uses 3,5 million litres of diesel, three million litres of petrol and five million litres of Jet A1 daily. It needs about US$130 million a month to import fuel. Never mind the wheel, chaps, sleds are fine.