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Former ZESA CEO blames low tariffs
FORMER Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) chief executive officer, Engineer Josh Chifamba has blamed unfavourable tariffs and delayed sacrifices for plunging the nation into the current elec...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:38hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Matanga corruption investigation hits a snag
THE high-profile corruption investigation against police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga, among other cases, has been stalled by the failure of a key state witness, former Procurement Regulatory A...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa says deal with Eskom close
State power utility Zesa has commenced commercial discussions with South Africa's, Eskom, with a view to resume imports and plug a crippling power deficit.Zesa used to supplement a far less po...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Witness cornered in Mangoma case
THE second witness in the trial of former Energy Minister Elton Mangoma was yesterday taken to task by the accused's lawyers on why he was in court after previously claiming to be a stranger to the ca...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zesa insolvent
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) is insolvent with its liabilities outstripping its assets by over US$92 million, a report by the Auditor General Mrs Mildred Chiri reveals. The...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZESA hunts for new CEO
THE country's power utility, ZESA Holdings, has started hunting for a new group chief executive officer following the termination of Engineer Josh Chifamba's contract recently."Applications ar...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New dispensation rejects corruption
The advent of the new dispensation in November 2017 has seen a new impetus in the fight against the scourge of corruption. Right beginning with his inauguration speech on 24 November 2017, President M...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 12:25hrs | 13 | by Bevan Musoko
Hordes apply for Zacc posts
Parliament has been inundated by applications from potential corruption busters willing to join the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), with 130 aspirants having thrown their hats into the rin...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 09:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-corruption fight set to get fresh impetus
President Mnangagwa's anti-corruption fight is set to get fresh impetus following the resignation of Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) chairman Dr Job Whabira and his entire commission yester...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 23:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zesa boss breaches bail conditions
ZESA Holdings finance director Thokozani Dhliwayo is understood to have breached her bail conditions after reporting for work last Friday and holding meetings with the procurement team, including Phil...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa bosses arrested
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) chief executive officer, Engineer Joshua Chifamba, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution (ZETDC) managing director Engineer Julian Chi...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean power imports down 50%
Zimbabwe's power imports declined by almost 50 percent during the second quarter of the year after the country's power utility increased generation at Kariba plant. Zesa Holdings increased out...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Undenge want real criminals in govt to be arrested
Former Energy minister Samuel Undenge yesterday said it was a mockery to arrest him for merely writing a letter for a voluntary work while there are "real criminals" who offered Vice-President Constan...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa to commission $1bn Hwange project
President Mnangagwa is today expected to commission the construction of the $1 billion Hwange 7 and 8 Power extension project as his administration continues to drive the country towards energy self-s...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZRP, ZACC in a spot over Chivayo
PARLIAMENT has urged the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc)and the police to immediately investigate businessman Wicknell Chivayo and four former energy ministers for alleged corrupt activitie...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 20:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
WikiLeaks: 25 most corrupt ministers and public figures in Zimbabwe
These individuals will never be prosecuted by the Mnangagwa government because he is involved with entirely all of them. Either they were in the deal together or they know too much of his own dirty de...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 11:06hrs | 125 | by WikiLeaks
Chivayo fails to complete pre-commencement works
INTRATREK Zimbabwe has completed clearing 75 hectares of the 200 hectares as part of the pre-commencement works for the Gwanda solar project, an official has said.Apart from completing pre-com...Published: 25 Apr 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Army's diamond mining activities under spotlight
Defence secretary Martin Rushwaya is today expected to appear in Parliament for grilling over the army's mining activities in the Chiadzwa diamond fields.Rushwaya was initially scheduled to ap...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zesa warns of massive power cuts
THE country's power utility, Zesa, has warned that it could start rolling out power cuts three years after stopping them due to supply constraints, as government remains reluctant to approve a tariff ...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
4 ex-ministers face probe over Chivayo deals
FOUR former Energy ministers, who served under ex-President Robert Mugabe between 2013 and 2017 are being investigated for allegedly turning the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) into their feeding trough,...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zesa gets tough on defaulters
ZESA Holdings has given defaulting consumers up to the end of the month to make payment plans to clear their electricity bills within six months to avoid being switched off and litigation.The ...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Power station gets ISO certification
THE Bulawayo Thermal Power Station has become the first power plant in the country to have its Integrated Management Systems certified by the Standards Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ).The achiev...Published: 12 Mar 2018 at 05:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to halve power import bill
ZIMBABWE is set to reduce the power import bill by 50 percent following the addition of another 150 megawatts to the national grid from the Kariba South expansion project today.In 2014, Govern...Published: 10 Mar 2018 at 09:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chivayo, business partner clash
BUSINESSMAN Mr Wicknell Chivayo is embroiled in boardroom squabbles with his business partner Mr Yusuf Ahmid whom he accuses of plotting to elbow him out of Intratrek Zimbabwe Private Limited....Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Chivayo appears before Parly
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo is appearing before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy to give a detailed explanation on the tender awarded to him for the Gwanda Sola...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 10:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wicknell's woes mount
ENERGY minister Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday told Parliament that more heads were set to roll at Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) over the $7 million Gwanda solar project which was awarded to businessman Wi...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Heads to roll at Zesa
The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) was prejudiced of more than $7 million and not the $5 million initially reported through suspected irregular payments to businessman Mr Wicknell Chivayo, legislators h...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo deals: Heads to roll at Zesa
The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) was prejudiced of more than $7 million - and not the $5 million initially reported - through suspected irregular payments to businessman Mr Wicknell Chivayo, legislato...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zesa workers demand 75% salary raise
Zesa workers are demanding an outrageous 75 percent increase in salaries and allowances across the board, a move that will almost double the power utility's monthly wage bill from the current $22 mill...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo deals: ZPC boss suspended
The National Economic Conduct Inspectorate (NECI) has ordered businessman Wicknell Chivayo to avail several documents he signed with the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), resulting in him being paid US$5 ...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 23:01hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Crime busting unit targets Wicknell Chivayo
HARARE - An elite crime-busting unit run by government is going after flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo over a string of energy deals entered with the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) - a unit of Ze...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 21:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Debt-ridden Zesa seeks tariff hike
THE debt-ridden Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) has written to government lobbying for a tariff hike with effect from next month amid reports the national power utility is technically ins...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo arrested
HARARE - Controversial Harare businessman, Wicknell Chivayo, is staring down the barrel of a gun as the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) and Parliament turn the heat on him in a bid to hav...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 06:15hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo feels heat over Zesa projects
Controversial Harare businessman, Wicknell Chivayo, is staring down the barrel of a gun as the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) and Parliament turn the heat on him in a bid to have h...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 10:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa demands $5 million back from Wicknell Chivayo
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority Holdings (Zesa) board will meet next week to deliberate on energy contracts awarded to dodgy businessman Wicknell Chivayo amid reports parliament will soon mo...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 09:27hrs | 68 | by Staff reporter
Forex shortages threat to power imports
ZIMBABWE'S power imports are under threat as the country continues to struggle to pay its obligations due to acute shortages of foreign currency, sources familiar with the development have said....Published: 08 Nov 2017 at 05:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa pays Eskom $12 million
Zesa Holdings has paid South African power utility, Eskom $12 million to avoid being switched off and will pay another $20 million this month as it battles to liquidate its arrears.The power u...Published: 03 Oct 2017 at 06:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zesa pays $8 million to Eskom to avoid load shedding
Zimbabwe has paid $8 million to Eskom of South Africa and Hydro Cahora Bassa (HCB) of Mozambique to avoid losing 350 megawatts as the country battles to liquidate arrears amounting to over $50 million...Published: 02 Aug 2017 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kariba Dam renovation boost for Sadc power
Africa's largest man-made inland lake, Kariba Dam situated along the mighty Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia is again on the mend following realisation by the Southern African Development Com...Published: 30 May 2017 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
RBZ, Zesa strike Eskom payment deal
POTENTIALLY devastating load shedding has been averted after Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and Zesa Holdings yesterday struck a payment deal to liquidate arrears to Eskom of South Africa within the next fo...Published: 30 May 2017 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to pay Eskom a substantial amount of money next week
GOVERNMENT says it will pay Eskom of South Africa a substantial amount of money next week to ward off the imminent threat of load-shedding after the firm threatened to cut off supplies to Zimbabwe by ...Published: 27 May 2017 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
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...Published: 24 May 2017 at 15:06hrs | | by John Sigauke
Zesa fails to settle Eskom debt, massive load shedding feared
Zimbabwe might experience massive load shedding starting next week if Zesa Holdings fails to settle an outstanding power import bill of $43 million owed to Eskom of South Africa and Hydro Cahora Bassa...Published: 23 May 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Eskom to cut power supplies to Zimbabwe
South African power utility, Eskom, has given Zesa Holdings until the end of this month to clear its debt of $43 million, failure of which it threatens to cut 300 megawatts from the amount it is suppl...Published: 08 May 2017 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zesa to continue seeking upward tariff review
Power utility, Zesa Holdings has indicated that it will continue seeking an upward tariff review to enable speedy completion of its power generation projects. Zesa chief executive officer,...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Repowering Project await status approval
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) says it is waiting for its application for National Project Status (NPS) for the Bulawayo Repowering Project to be approved f...Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa raises power generation capital
National power utility, Zesa Holdings said it anticipates to have raised its share of the $1.4 billion for Hwange Power Project by first quarter next year. This was after the parastatal la...Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe struggles to meet China's bailout conditions
Zimbabwe has failed to meet conditions for access to a US$1,17 billion loan facility from the Export-Import Bank of China for the expansion of Hwange Power Station, the country's largest coal-fire...Published: 08 Dec 2016 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive load shedding looming
ZESA Holdings says the continued inadequate allocation of funds by the central bank might plunge the nation into darkness as the power utility is getting into serious arrears with regional electri...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 13:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa fails to pay Eskom
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) is failing to service ESKOM and Mozambique power import accounts due to cash shortages.ZESA chief executive Josh Chifamba told parliament's Min...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 19:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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