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ZESA hikes local currency rates
ELECTRICITY tariffs have reverted to the local currency equivalent of the US dollar charges of 2018 with the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company saying the adjustment is meant t...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 people killed in horrific accident
FOUR people died on Monday night after the truck they were traveling in was involved in an accident near Kaburi area in Kariba.The fourth person died on arrival at Kariba hospital while scores...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bogus ZETDC workers con residents
A NUMBER of residents in Luveve and Iminyela were conned by people claiming to be Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) employees after being asked to pay for the re...Published: 24 Aug 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
End to Zimbabwe power shortages in sight
ZIMBABWE'S drive to permanently end power shortages is well on course after completion of a new thermal power plant in Hwange that is expected to feed 50MW to the national grid by October this year. ...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 Zesa senior managers arrested
THREE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution (ZETDC) senior managers from the southern region have been arrested for alleged criminal abuse of office as public officers. ZETDC is a subsidi...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa cuts home use power costs
ZESA Holdings(Zesa) yesterday announced a surprise 60 percent power tariff cut on one of its bands for domestic electricity usage.Zesa subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Dis...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 20:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa tariff hike hits 100% inside a week
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) on Thursday increased domestic electricity tariffs by 50 percent, the second such raise in a week.The ZESA subsidiary - s...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 22:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutinhiri loses tractors over Zesa debt
Former Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs minister, Ambrose Mutinhiri will see his tractors go under the hammer to settle a $54 000 debt with the State-owned power utility, the Zimbabwe Electricity T...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Fifth Estate: A threat to national security
The turn of the century has seen the evolution of various communication platforms. This development also saw the rise of citizen journalism. The bad side of citizen journalism is that the writer i...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 08:26hrs | | by Elijah Chihota
ZETDC struggles to complete prepaid meter project
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (Zetdc) is struggling to complete its prepaid electricity meter project due to foreign currency challenges, an official has said....Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Cabinet meeting disrupted by power cuts
THE ongoing power outages that have ravaged Harare since Tuesday interrupted a Cabinet meeting, NewsDay reported.Energy minister Joram Gumbo told NewsDay yesterday that he was aware of the pre...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zesa boss granted bail
ZESA Holdings chief executive Joshua Chifamba and two top executives yesterday appeared before a Harare magistrate charged with criminal abuse of office after allegedly engaging in corrupt deals with ...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gweru chokes in $50m debt
THE cash-strapped Gweru City Council says its debt has ballooned to over $50 million and that it is now failing to pay service providers.Topping the list of creditors is Zesa Holdings at $26 8...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High Court dismisses OK challenge
THE High Court has dismissed an application by OK Zimbabwe Limited challenging the pending disconnection of power at its shop in Gwanda over a $72 000 electricity bill.The ruling by Bulawayo H...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC goes for 7 years on generator
THE council here has gone for almost eight years relying on a diesel generator to power two of its three major business buildings, the Tower Block and Revenue Hall, raising concerns over its sincerity...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 12:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vandalism costs Zesa over $4 million
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) says it has lost infrastructure worth $4,1 million to vandalism and theft from January last year to August this year. Mor...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Woman jailed for bridging electricity
A woman from Sunnyside in Bulawayo has been slapped with wholly suspended three months jail term for bridging electricity at her home.Nyarai Bridget Mutete (43) pleaded guilty to the charge wh...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Copper smuggler fined $300, loot confiscated
A MAN from Bulawayo has been arrested for smuggling 104 kilogrammes of copper valued at $2 080 into Botswana.Minerals and Border Control Unit police intercepted Lameck Mwanga (31) of Emakh...Published: 27 Aug 2016 at 08:10hrs | | by Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu
Business sector condemn Zesa over proposed tariffs hikes
Zimbabwe leading business unions have opposed planned electricity tariffs hike by ZESA saying it was count-productive.The association which include the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries, Ch...Published: 19 Jan 2016 at 11:06hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Zesa to embark on a nationwide power cut exercise
Zesa will this week embark on a nationwide exercise to cut power supplies to thousands of consumers owing the parastatal amounts above US$500 despite previous assurances that the debts would be settle...Published: 30 Aug 2015 at 10:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa steps up debt recovery measures
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) is urging its customers who are in arrears to settle their accounts.In an advisory in today's newspapers, ZEDTC said "Cre...Published: 31 Jul 2015 at 10:39hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Zesa announces a 10 hour power supply interruption schedule - list of affected areas
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company has announced a 10 hour power supply interruption for areas serviced by the Plumtree 33Kv feeder.ZEDTC released an advert a...Published: 22 Jun 2015 at 15:47hrs | | by Ndou Paul
ZEDTC giving away $10 million in free electricity annually
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company is giving out more than $10 million to employees, pensioners and officials in the Ministry of Energy and Power Development in free electr...Published: 11 May 2015 at 16:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF keeping all thou vintage
The timing couldn't be better. People still debating Jonathan Moyo's 'dislodging' from a seemingly sinecure position by being branded a weevil by the Zanu PF leader, the President of Zimbabwe, the Com...Published: 19 Jun 2014 at 07:42hrs | | by Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere
Komichi: 'MDC-T condemns unnecessary massive power tariff increases'
Press Statement by Senator Morgen Komichi, the MDC-T Alternative Minister for Energy and Power Development, Harvest House, HarareGood afternoon, ladies ...Published: 20 Feb 2014 at 12:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zesa threatens to disconnect defaulters
ZESA Holdings' subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), has intensified its debt collection and has threatened to switch off power supplies from defaulting c...Published: 22 Apr 2013 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa has no capacity to read meters
Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), a subsidiary of Zesa commercial director Enock Ncube has said the power utility used estimates for power usage by farmers because t...Published: 22 Jun 2012 at 03:26hrs | | by Mafu Sithabile
Bulawayo City Council outshines Harare on revenue contribution
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) conrtibuted more pay as you earn (PAYE) compared to Harare, Mutare and other cities. This was revealed in Tendai Biti's 2012 National Budget. Bulawayo only contribute...Published: 25 Nov 2011 at 05:11hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Biti adjusts 2012 Budget to $4 billion with $600 million expected from diamonds
HARARE - Finance Minister Tendai Biti has adjusted the 2102 budget to $4 billion from $3.4 billion after the ministry of Mines and Mining Development assured him $600 million or more will come from th...Published: 25 Nov 2011 at 06:40hrs | | by -
The political motivated arrest of Mangoma is not political: Solahart Ltd
SOLAHART Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd, the company which is suing Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma and Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission Distribution Company over a tender for a p...Published: 29 Mar 2011 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Byo24News
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