{"id":248958,"date":"2026-11-03T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bulawayo-oil-plant-nears-completion-set-to-create-400-jobs\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:00:19","slug":"zimbabwe-bulawayo-oil-plant-nears-completion-set-to-create-400-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-bulawayo-oil-plant-nears-completion-set-to-create-400-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Bulawayo Oil Plant Nears Completion, Set to Create 400 Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">A new oil processing plant in Bulawayo is nearing completion with the project expected to create up to 400 direct jobs and provide business opportunities for local farmers, transport operators and small-scale entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The facility, which is about 85% complete will process soya beans into cooking oil, incorporating grain storage, oil extraction, refining and bottling operations in an integrated production system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Fats &amp; Feeds Sub-Manager Zacharia Mupachike said construction was progressing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611030088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new oil processing plant in Bulawayo is nearing completion with the project expected to create up to 400 direct jobs and provide business opportunities for local farmers, transport operators and small-scale entrepreneurs. The facility, which is about 85% complete will process soya beans into cooking oil, incorporating grain storage, oil extraction, refining and bottling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,3691,16899,8268,6643,6145,257,4221,8489,7106,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-248958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bulawayo","tag-completion","tag-create","tag-jobs","tag-nears","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-plant","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}