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ZESA launches national call centre
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has introduced a centralised national call centre to streamline electricity fault reporting and improve its response to outages across the country....Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:21hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents raise alarm over ZESA transformer thefts
Residents of Pumula North have voiced outrage over the increasing theft of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) infrastructure and what they describe as a lack of transparency and accountabili...Published: 22 May 2025 at 18:13hrs | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's power crisis set to persist into 2025
Zimbabwe's prolonged power outages, which have left ordinary citizens enduring hours without electricity, are expected to spill over into 2025 due to a lack of foreign currency needed for electricity ...Published: 22 Dec 2024 at 11:06hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
44 Zinasu activists arrested
Forty-four activists from the Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) were arrested yesterday at the ZESA Training Centre in Harare for public violence and property destruction. Violence erupted amo...Published: 25 Jul 2024 at 07:36hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
CCC councillor, Zanu-PF MP clash over stolen transformer
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) ward 23 councillor Noumusa Moyo has accused Insiza North legislator Farai Taruvinga (Zanu-PF) of stifling development in the Matebeleland south area.Moyo ac...Published: 05 Jan 2024 at 05:53hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
ZESA storms MDC's Harvest House
Officials from the Zesa Holdings Loss Control Department stormed Harvest House, the national headquarters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) following reports that some tenants wer...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cable thieves plunge Paddonhurst suburb into darkness
OVER 300 houses in Paddonhurst suburb in Bulawayo have gone for two days without electricity with Zesa officials saying cables were stolen and the fault might be fixed by Wednesday.A power out...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 19:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Suspended Nssa boss mired in US$353 000 luxury cars scandal
SUSPENDED National Social Security Authority (Nssa) boss Arthur Manase was removed partly due to a scandal over two top-of-the-range cars valued US$353 000 which he bought in violation of company poli...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in spotlight over the massive Nssa corruption
THE National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has presented its forensic audit which unearths corruption and names individuals implicated in the pensions fund's latest scandals to the Office of the Pr...Published: 22 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
SA officials intercept truck smuggling cigarettes worth R20m
Law enforcement authorities have detained a truck that was ferrying illicit cigarettes worth some R20 million on Monday, after it was stopped in Bronkhorstspruit and the driver fled the scene....Published: 02 May 2023 at 22:14hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally caught up in a US$400 000 corrupt upmarket house deal
PUBLIC Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Paul Mavima is caught up in a US$400 000 corrupt upmarket house deal in Quinnington, Borrowdale, Harare, involving the National Social Security Autho...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 10:41hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
Zesa pays US$6,4m for power deal
ZIMBABWE has secured a five-year deal to import 100 megawatts of electricity a day from Zambia after paying US$6, 4 million upfront to Zesco, Zambia's power utility, Energy and Power Development minis...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cartels, manipulators on the radar
Cartels and those that collude to unjustifiably increase prices, engage in illegal dealings and manipulating the local currency for their benefit have been put under the microscope, President Mnangagw...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Faulty Zesa meters headache for residents
SOME Bulawayo residents are living in houses without electricity due to defective prepaid electricity meters that Zesa installed at their homes.The power utility is failing to replace the faul...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:33hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zesa launches campaign against vandalism
POWER utility Zesa Holdings has embarked on an awareness campaign against the vandalism and theft of its infrastructure.Yesterday, Zesa officials met the business community, churches and vendo...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soda Zhemu warns power outages will persist until ZESA charges 'viable tariff'
Energy minister Soda Zhemu says power cuts will persist because Zimbabwe's electricity is too cheap, a situation he says is pushing "unproductive" demand by domestic customers.Zhemu is support...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 20:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree plunged into darkness
PLUMTREE Town has been plunged into darkness after thieves stole copper cables from the main power line on Saturday.This has also resulted in taps running dry due to lack of water pumping capa...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe accuses United States of 'gross provocation'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman claimed the United States government is a "clear contestant" after its embassy in Harare called for the lifting of a ban on by-elections.George Charamb...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 19:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Violence mars Zanu-PF polls
Zimbabwe, US in fresh diplomatic rowA FRESH diplomatic row is brewing between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government and the United States embassy in Harare over allegations that Joe Biden's ad...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZESA under fire for 'selective' load shedding
RESIDENTS in Bulawayo have accused the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority's (ZESA) of bias in its load shedding schedule with some suburbs experiencing power cuts for hours while other areas have n...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gata tells Mnangagwa's govt to trim ministers' powers
ZESA executive chairperson Sydney Gata yesterday urged government to revise its architecture of public enterprises as well as clip powers vested in Cabinet ministers to enable the country to successfu...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Manager uses Zesa employee as domestic worker
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) last week arrested suspended Zesa southern region manager King Dube on allegations of using one of the power utility's employees as his domestic worker, ...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Curfew chaos at border
CONGESTION of vehicles and pedestrians travelling between South Africa and Zimbabwe has hit Beitbridge Border Post resulting in some travellers spending up to two days to cross the border. The...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Electricity conducting tree torments residents
RESIDENTS of Magwegwe high density suburb in Bulawayo have made desperate pleas to the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) and city council to cut a tall tree which is interfering with a high...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 18:15hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zesa hikes tariffs by 50%
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has increased tariffs by 50 percent for the second time in a month. ZETDC, a Zesa unit, increased tariffs last month and in Septe...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 05:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Corruption trials to be speeded up
Corruption cases will now be expedited within two months after a suspect is arrested with nine of the 27 recently opened court cases ready for trial a departure from the previous trend where accused p...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Mutsvangwa farms switched off
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), a subsidiary of Zesa Holdings, last week disconnected power supplies to farms belonging to former president Robert Mugabe and In...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NSSA forensic audit report: Who is who?
Adam Molai, Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry minister Priscah Mupfumira, Robin Vela and Ozias Bvute are the individuals heavily implicated in the National Social Security Authority (NSSA)...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:51hrs | 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 telep...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA 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 telep...Published: 28 Jul 2019 at 09:02hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo councillors walk out of Zesa, Chasi meeting
BULAWAYO councillors yesterday walked out of a stakeholder consultative meeting between government and Zesa officials, protesting against lack of consultation over demolition of the Bulawayo thermal p...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hwange Power Station funding under threat
Zimbabwe might face challenges accessing the US$1 billion loan facility from China Eximbank for Hwange Power Station expansion following the change of functional currency that resulted in funds that w...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporer
SA bus accident: Bodies arrive
THE bodies of 13 of the 14 Zimbabweans who died in a Marsmery bus accident in South Africa on May 6 arrived in the country yesterday through Beitbridge.Initially 10 of the 13 bodies were broug...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo shamed for peddling falsehoods
Self-exiled former Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo was yesterday shamed on social media after he posted foreign images of brutalised ...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:00hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Plain clothes officials at Beitbridge expose border post to criminals
ADRIAN Ndhlovu (not his real name) is stranded after his car, a 2018 Toyota D4D twin cab on hire purchased in South Africa, has been placed under seizure by the Customs and Excise Department.H...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 10:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Travellers in long delays at Beitbridge
THOUSANDS of South Africa-based Zimbabweans who are on their way back to the neighbouring country are being subjected to delays lasting up to five hours as SA immigration officials are overwhelmed and...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa rules out load-shedding
GOVERNMENT has put in measures to normalise the situation after parts of the sourthern region started experiencing power cuts after three thermal power stations stopped operating while the main one in...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Silo blast exposes GMB can of worms
The recent explosion which killed six people at the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) Lions Den silos along the Harare-Chirundu Highway has exposed favouritism in the parastatal's employment policy and fail...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Residents mete instant justice on Zesa crew
THREE Zesa employees were arrested after they were allegedly caught stealing copper cables in Woodville suburb in Bulawayo on Wednesday night.The trio was bashed by neighbourhood watch committ...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 09:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa unit in fraud storm
ZIMBABWE Power Company (ZPC) has flown into the eye of a storm amid revelations a senior executive of the State- owned power utility allegedly awarded a multi-million dollar contract without going to ...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cable thief wanted by police electrocuted
A SUSPECTED copper cable thief died on Monday night while another was severely burnt after they were electrocuted by a 66 000-volt power line in Umguza district.Elmon Ndlovu died on the spot w...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Staffr eporter
Hlalani Kuhle project to be completed in 16 years
SERVICING of the Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle housing scheme in Cowdray Park is likely to remain a pipe-dream with revelations that a total of $49 million is required for the suburb to be fully promoted from...Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Time to recall Chamisa now if he won't heed the people's call
People printed their own flyers and posted and in support of Mr Sibanda all illegally confiscated by MDC T Chamisa officials. This is a human rights violation and its illegal. Reporters must que...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 08:25hrs | 2 | by Zim Pac
'You want lunch in Dubai!' Chivayo taunt MPs - MPs accepting bribes is accepted gravy train etiquette
"What were MPs expecting to find on a site for a potential solar power station? A triple story 10 bedroomed mansion with a tennis court and a swimming pool?" commented Nicknell Chiyayo, the young bucc...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 20:30hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Khupe must be disciplined'
Outspoken MDC-T legislator Eddie Cross has warned that the party's vice president Thokozani Khupe is likely to face disciplinary action if she continues to oppose Nelson Chamisa, who was recently endo...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 11:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teen electrocuted by fallen Zesa cable
A JURU teenage herdboy died last week after he was electrocuted by a Zesa cable that had fallen to the ground.According to a reliable source, on December 17, Laston Zisengwe (15) of Musangate ...Published: 22 Dec 2017 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa prayer meeting has absolutely nothing to do with us - Govt
Government has distanced itself from a so-called prayer meeting organised by expelled members of the Zanu-pf Youth League in Harare yesterday purportedly to support Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, ...Published: 18 Aug 2017 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bogus Zesa agent defraud residents
A SUSPECTED bogus Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority agent appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Court on Friday charged with defrauding Warren Park residents of various amounts of money he collect...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 06:46hrs | 1 | 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
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