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Private players to enter Zimbabwe's electricity retail market

Zimbabwe is set to open its electricity sector to private players who will be allowed to generate, transmit, and distribute power directly to households, especially in newly developed suburbs. This strategic shift aims to complement the ef…

Published: 16 May 2025 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter

Thabo Mbeki lied about causes of load-shedding

Former President Mbeki referred in his yesterday's speech to the coal stockholding at Eskom in 2007-2008. He got the facts wrong, and unless corrected, gullible South Africans will believe the lie.The coal stock until 2008 was ten days. It…

Published: 14 Mar 2024 at 16:23hrs | 7 | by Engineer MatÅ¡hela Koko

PSL cancels matches

THE Castle Lager Premier Soccer League was thrown into disarray by the suspension of the Zifa board and forced to cancel all league games yesterday after the national association allegedly withdrew all match officials.The Zifa board was su…

Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

Brian Molefe fingers Cyril Ramaphosa for Eskom's problems

Former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe on Friday took aim at President Cyril Ramaphosa, blaming him for having been part of the problems the state-owned power utility faces today.According to Molefe, when Ramaphosa was appointed chairperson of gove…

Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 20:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

South Africa promises Zimbabwe electricity bailout

THE South African Government is considering a proposal put forward to increase power exports to Zimbabwe after high level talks between the two countries' energy ministers last week.In a telephone interview with the Sunday News yesterday, …

Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

South African tycoon's invasion of Zimbabwe analysed

Matshela Koko served as acting CEO of South African power utility ESKOM, he has been awarded a contract to produce 100MW of solar-generated power in Gwanda. This comes on the back of a project that was awarded to Wicknell Chivhayo and noth…

Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 13:06hrs | 1 | by Nicholas Ncube

Residents should heed President Mnangagwa's call

Both commercial and domestic users of electricity owing the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) large amounts of money should heed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's call to pay for electricity bills in order for the power utility com…

Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 12:11hrs | | by Chido Chikuni

Government should be commended for paying Eskom

I would like to applaud Government, through its parastatal Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority, (ZESA), Holdings for their continuous efforts to reduce the arrears owed to Eskom, a South African power utility company.It is pleasing that …

Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 09:22hrs | | by Chido Chikuni

Swift action needed to bail ZESA

If there is anything that the people of Zimbabwe would like to quickly forget, worse still to experience once more, is the dark period in the recent past that saw load-shedding stretching for 18 hours a day.The media has reported that the …

Published: 24 May 2017 at 15:06hrs | | by John Sigauke

ESKOM warning to ZESA worrying

The People's Democratic Party views the warning to ZESA by South African utility  ESKOM is a serious cause of concern. It is an indictment on the ZANUPF leadership who have dismally failed to deal with the power demands of the country…

Published: 08 May 2017 at 11:47hrs | | by Jacob Mafume

Cross-Border power can help African economies overcome low electricity supply rates

With the recent announcement of an ambitious power project to connect Cape Town and Cairo within the next three years, the opportunities for reliable cross-border electricity generation are once again in the spotlight. Mark Makanda of…

Published: 15 Apr 2017 at 13:03hrs | | by Agencies

Ventyx Closes $7 Million Deal with Africa's Largest Electricity Provider

ATLANTA, PRNewswire - Ventyx, an ABB company, today (Aug. 6, 2012) announced it has signed two significant software license agreements worth more than $7 million with the South African utility, Eskom. Under the new agreements, Eskom will u…

Published: 07 Aug 2012 at 04:24hrs | | by APO | Ventyx

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