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What we experience in Zimbabwe is no longer load shedding - It's an energy crisis
Downplaying the gravity of a crisis may offer short-term comfort, but in the long run, it only deepens the problem.In Zimbabwe today, the term "load shedding" has become a household phrase - r...Published: 29 Jul 2025 at 20:58hrs | 479 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Hwange 'explosion' blackouts Zimbabwe
THE major power blackout that hit Zimbabwe on Tuesday and Wednesday was reportedly a result of a massive explosion at Hwange Power Station's power generation Unit 4 on Tuesday, NewsDay Weekender has b...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa-Tagwirei links getting clearer
THE other day I was talking to a respected colleague who said something that got me thinking hard and long.The colleague — who, sure, has access to President Emmerson Mnangagwa now and then ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:49hrs | 5 | by Tawanda Majoni
Government licenses 80 IPP projects
GOVERNMENT has so far licensed 80 independent power producers (IPPs) projects who could add a total of 7 000 megawatts to the national grid, more than three times the national requirement."At ...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Executive failing corruption fight
ROSA Parks is not just a name in the United States. She is a torchbearer when it comes to civil rights movements. Parks one day decided not to give her seat to a white person in a public bus. ...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
'Queen Bee' spoils Mnangagwa, Chiwenga with top-of-the-range cars
GOVERNMENT'S Command Agriculture benefactor Kudakwashe Tagwirei reportedly splashed millions of scarce United States dollars on luxury vehicles for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputies, Const...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 06:02hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa avoiding the real corruption
Once upon a time, the new administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa mounted what it called an anti-corruption blitz. That was immediately after wresting power from Robert Mugabe through a soft co...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:34hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Mines portfolio chair accused of receiving bribes
Norton representative Mr Temba Mliswa yesterday accused chairman of the Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy Daniel Shumba of receiving bribes from Sakunda Holdings chief executive officer Kudakwas...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kariba power generation up 70%
GENERATION capacity at Kariba South Hydroelectric Power Station, Zimbabwe's main source of electricity, will go up by 70,17 percent, after the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) reviewed upwards the am...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe - The First Lady from Hell
The on-going saga surrounding the multi-million lavish lifestyle of the First Lady, Grace Mugabe, clearly shows that her greediness has reached alarming and unacceptable levels as she has become the b...Published: 23 Jan 2017 at 18:03hrs | | by PDP
Dema Diesel Power project in 25 million litre fuel import storm
The controversial Dema Diesel Power Plant is consuming 25 million litres per month which is all imported duty free, a parliamentary committee heard today (Monday).However, the Dema...Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 11:47hrs | 4 | by Thobekile Zhou
Zanu-PF corruption has reached endemic levels
The shocking exposure of how Jonathan Moyo and his subordinates milked dry the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund's (Zimdef) financial coffers is proof of how endemic corruption levels in the Zanu...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 15:25hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
'Mugabe turns Zimbabwe into a vampire state'
In his book, Defeating Dictators, George B.N Ayittey makes the point that much of Africa is a vampire state that metastasizes into a coconut republic and finally implodes into a collapsed or failed st...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 17:30hrs | | by PDP
Mugabe's Dema power plant flawed
The $250 million Dema Diesel Power Plant, which was awarded to Robert Mugabe's family under unclear and controversial circumstances, is expensive and unsustainable for the Zimbabwe Electricity Sup...Published: 27 Sep 2016 at 17:00hrs | 3 | by Jacob Mafume
Mugabe blows state funds on his in-laws
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's government is blowing tax payers' funds by providing state security at his in law's Marlborough house, it has emerged.Security sources said Mugabe's government was pr...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 18:14hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's office hijacks project
The Office of the President and Cabinet has seized control from the Energy and Power Development ministry of the controversial $83 million Dema Diesel Power Plant in a move aimed at ring fencing a...Published: 26 Aug 2016 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Eskom disconnects Zimbabwe
SOUTH African power company, Eskom, last week disconnected its electricity supply to Zimbabwe, plunging large parts of the country into darkness on Heroes Day as the Southern African country is experi...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 11:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe gives $200m project to Bona in-law
THE opposition PDP party on Tuesday blasted the controversial awarding of the $200 million Dema Diesel Power Station tender to Bona Mugabe's brother-in-law without going through formal tender awar...Published: 20 Jun 2016 at 11:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Military rescued Zanu-PF
The Zimbabwean military and several shadowy companies linked to sanctions -busting manauveors involving and mysterious financial transactions helped Zanu-PF during the disputed 2013 general electi...Published: 17 Jun 2016 at 12:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dema power station tender exposes Mugabe's nepotism
The controversy in the awarding of the Dema Diesel Power Station multi-million dollar tender by the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) to Robert Mugabe's son-in-law is disturbing news of how senior Zanu PF ...Published: 14 Jun 2016 at 14:55hrs | | by PDP
Mugabe's relative in corrupt project-$194m at stake
President Robert Mugabe's in-law Derick Chikore - brother to Simba who is married to the president's daughter Bona, has an interest in the dodgy US4194m a year Dema diesel power plant which will r...Published: 03 Jun 2016 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minister in fresh energy scandal
Energy minister Samuel Undenge is lurching from one scandal to another, this time he neglected or ignored technical and expert advice that the US$194 million a year Dema Diesel Power Plant deal wo...Published: 27 May 2016 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZPC's corrupt tenders not reversible, says Mbiriri
GOVERNMENT is proceeding with tenders for Zimbabwe Power Company's power projects, as awarded by Statement Procurement Board to avoid delays in resolving the national power crisis and the legal conseq...Published: 13 May 2016 at 06:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Process to hike power tariffs begins in Harare
Consultations for the proposed power tariffs increase have begun in Harare and are expected to spread to other towns to buy in the participation of all stakeholders.The consultations follow re...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 22:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
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