Busisa Moyo can't wait to get out the door. It's the middle of a Monday afternoon, and the chief executive officer of Zimbabwe's United Refineries Ltd. is striding briskly out of his crushing plant-a vast rectangular structure with red brick walls and a corrugated metal roof. In theory, this is where millions of soybeans at a time can be cleaned, heated, cracked, and pulverized to extract vegetable oil. Except today, like most days, there are no soybeans and no workers; overhead, the steel catwalks are empty, and the line is silent apart from the clatter of Moyo's footsteps on concrete. "I don't like to be in there too long when it's not running," he says. "When you're a factory man, you want to hear the machines pounding."
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