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Zacc requests more powers
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has made a request to be granted prosecutorial powers in order to expeditiously process graft cases through the newly established Anti-Corruption Courts....Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:59hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
Hwange Power Station set for US$3,6m refurbishment
Power utility, Zesa, is undertaking a US$3,6 million refurbishment of Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 6 expected to be complete in December.Completion of the works will pave way for the Zimb...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:58hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Zacc seeks trial powers
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is seeking prosecutorial powers to expeditiously process graft cases through newly established Anti-Corruption Courts.Currently, only the Nationa...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:36hrs | 107 | by Staff reporter
Will ZESA tariff hike translate to more power?
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) on Wednesday approved an electricity tariff increase of $162,16c per kilowatt hour, following a recent application by power utility ZESA Holdings to adj...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:26hrs | 146 | by Beaven Dhliwayo
More economic pain for Zimbabweans
Zesa Holdings (Zesa) has announced shocking plans to hike power tariffs in the country every month - and in line with prevailing foreign currency exchange rates. Zimbabwe raised its averag...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1439 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe drafting new coal tariffs
GOVERNMENT has paid tribute to Makomo Resources for keeping the nation's lights on by continuously supplying coal to the Zimbabwe Power Company at a time the country's economy and coal mining sector a...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 07:56hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe quadrupled its electricity prices
Zimbabwe has increased the average electricity tariff by 320% to let the state power utility ramp up production and improve supplies at a time of daily rolling power cuts, the national energy regulato...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 18:29hrs | 2611 | by Reuters
Electricity price shoots up by 320%
Zimbabwe's power regulator has increased the average electricity price by 320%.The decision was taken to allow it to ramp up production and improve supplies amid daily power cuts.Essen...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 14:17hrs | 2805 | by BBC
Council to recover debts through Zesa
Harare City Council plans to use ZESA Holdings' billing system to recover about $1 billion the local authority is owed by ratepayers.If the plan is approved, council will gradually recov...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 19:11hrs | 1469 | by Staff reporter
Zera, Zesa trigger price madness
PRICES of basic commodities, including fuel, and services continue to soar days after President Emmerson Mnangagwa threatened to introduce the Competition Act to impose deterrent penalties to combat w...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 10:29hrs | 1640 | by Staff reporter
Hwange Power Station increases output after refurbishment
THE Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) says Hwange Power Station is now generating an average 500 megawatts per day after the refurbishment of unit 5, easing electricity shortages in the country following m...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 07:20hrs | 1228 | by Staff Reporter
Open letter to Mthwakazi
Firstly I bring you greetings from Mthwakazi Liberation Front. The Movement which strives to bring back life, dignity, joy and prosperity to all Mthwakazi people.Mthwakazi, some 9years ago, in...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 22:05hrs | 1124 | by David Magagula
Zimbabwe doctors to defy government ultimatum to return to work
Striking doctors on Sunday vowed to press on with their job boycott, despite getting an ultimatum to return to work by Monday at 0800hrs.Doctors say the government's offer of a 60 percent sala...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 21:48hrs | 592 | by Staff reporter
NetOne back-to-basics strategy pays off
NETONE CEO Lazarus Muchenje believes the state-owned mobile phone operator is on the road to recovery because of a back-to-basics strategy.Muchenje (LM) told Alpha Media Holdings chairman Trev...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 16:38hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Government misses privatisation deadlines
The government has failed to meet its targets to revive state- owned enterprises (SOEs) that were outlined under its much-touted economic blueprint amid concerns about policy inconsistencies.F...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 16:33hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Forex shortages derail Paramount Garments
LEADING textile firm, Paramount Garments' exports have dropped by 14 percent while prospects of growing its Bulawayo clothing manufacturing unit, Archer Clothing Manufacturers are in limbo due to adve...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 16:17hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
Panic as CIO report leaks
A leaked intelligence report mapping out strategies of how to deal with MDC Alliance demos in Chiredzi District has sent chills down the spines of activists.The report which was confirmed by s...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 22:00hrs | 1035 | by Staff reporter
Zesa to review power tariffs monthly
Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) holdings acting group chief executive officer, Engineer Patrick Chivaura says electricity tariffs will be now reviewed monthly at inter-bank market rates a...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 21:21hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
Zesa announces shock tariffs hike
HARD-PRESSED Zimbabweans will have to pay more for their power after Zesa Holdings hiked tariffs by a staggering 583 percent in a move set to trigger further rises in prices of goods and services in t...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 07:28hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
Powerless Zesa blacklists debtors
ZESA Holdings has embarked on a nationwide blitz on defaulters and is blacklisting them so that they cannot open new accounts using different addresses. In an interview, ZESA spokesperson Mr F...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 06:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Human rights' violations strain Zimbabwe-US relations
THE United States government says it is alarmed by the ill-treatment of the country's citizens by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, indicating its bad human rights record has left relatio...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:47hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
Minister blasts Bulawayo civil servants
BULAWAYO Provincial Affairs Minister of State, Judith Ncube, yesterday took a swipe at slothful public officers and blamed such attitudes for frustrating service delivery and development in the city. ...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:05hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
11 500MW required to power Zimbabwe's Vision 2030
GOVERNMENT has called on the private sector to come on board and help increase investment in the energy sector to buttress attainment of an upper middle-income economy by 2030, which will require abou...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:04hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
New Zesa board will have its work cut out
The tough talk by Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi to appoint a new Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) board is a noble idea because the country has been battling acute el...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by Beaven Dhliwayo
Stakeholders must work together to avert a time bomb in Harare
The water situation in Harare has become a state of disaster and all stakeholders must work together to stem a calamity that could threaten the lives of the people.The council is doing all...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 13:21hrs | 404 | by Elias Mudzuri
Another Zesa tariff hike looms
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has applied to the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) seeking another adjustment of electricity tariffs, saying the curr...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 08:58hrs | 1249 | by Staff reporter
Zesa applies for tariff review
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has applied to the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) for an electricity tariff increment to allow it to improve electri...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa described Zimbabwe economy as 'dead'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has described the southern African country's economy as "dead" and said more time is needed turn it around.Zimbabwe has been facing a myriad of challenges includi...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 20:12hrs | 2276 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to shake up Zesa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says his government will shake up the country's power utility Zesa to enhance efficiency against the background of incessant power cuts. Mnangagwa said he will imp...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 15:26hrs | 2703 | by Staff Reporter
Power supply to improve long-term
Government is working on various policies to ensure sustainable electricity supply in the long-term after securing a deal from Mozambique's Hydroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) of Mozambique for the s...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dear Strive Masiyiwa
I greet you cordially.I just want to let you know that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and President ED are moving fast to destroy your cash cow Ecocash. It has come to my attention that they banned ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 23:10hrs | 3718 | by Don Chigumba
Recruitment freeze cripples tertiary institutions
GOVERNMENT'S recruitment freeze has seen most departments, among them the higher education institutions, operating with skeleton staff, making it difficult for them to deliver expected outcomes, an of...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 17:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZESA set to increase power exports to Namibia
State-run Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) senior officials are expected to meet with executives from Namibia's electricity company NamPower and finalise some on-going negotiations for the...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 17:54hrs | 969 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and allies behaving like ostriches
IN the NewsDay Weekender edition of Saturday we published on the same page two articles, one on the visiting United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on human rights, Clément Nyaletsossi Voule and anot...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 17:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe looked after his own
THE drums reverberated at the home of the late former President Robert Mugabe as boys from the Roman Catholic-run Kutama Boys High Mission sang in smooth innocent majestic voices to bid farewell to a ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 2465 | by Staff reporter
Govt drafts law for Zesa re-bundling
Government has drafted a law that will enable it to consolidate Zesa's four subsidiaries into one entity, and is now in the process of roping in a consultant that will help rebundle the power utility....Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 13:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'nformation ministry requires $691m
The Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Ministry requires $691,3 million for the 2020 fiscal year to fulfil its national mandate that includes ensuring the local and international public ...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 08:01hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to get 100 MW from Mozambique
MOZAMBIQUE'S Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) will this week feed 100 megawatts into the country's power grid, a move likely to ease power shortages in Zimbabwe, Zim Morning Post reported....Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 21:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deputy Minister refuses to answer question from Ndebele MP
Energy and Power Development deputy minister Magna Mudyiwa on Wednesday refused to answer a question posed to her by an MP in Ndebele saying she could not recognise and understand the language she was...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 20:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mangudya calls for price stability
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya has called for price stability, adding that the practice of linking prices to foreign currency exchange rate developments was unacceptable in a...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 1674 | by Staff reporter
'We will not switch off Kariba'
Water levels in Kariba Dam have dropped markedly as a result of the drought that plagued the 2018/2019 season. The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) - the body responsible for managing the reservoir on be...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 10:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube a complete failure'
KAMBUZUMA legislator Willias Madzimure (MDC Alliance) on Thursday described Finance minister Mthuli Ncube as a complete failure, claiming Members of Parliament have managed to "put him where he belong...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 17:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wicknell's Intratrek returns to Gwanda solar power site
Intratrek Zimbabwe has returned to the Gwanda solar power plant site after the High Court in June ordered ZESA subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), to work with the renewable energy company t...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 08:38hrs | 4294 | by ZimLive
Zesa reports $4bn exchange losses since February
Power utility ZESA Holdings yesterday revealed that it had incurred exchange losses of up to $4 billion since February, when the central bank liberalised the exchange rate.The Reserve Bank of ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Zesa, July Moyo face off
The US$400 000 electricity debt row between Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Minister July Moyo and the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (Private) Limited ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo resumes 48-hour water-shedding regime
The public is being advised that the City of Bulawayo is currently experiencing challenges with both raw and clear water pumping to the Criterion Raw Water, Tuli Clear Water and Magwegwe Reservoirs. ...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 17:51hrs | 1036 | by BCC
Top businessman convicted for stealing Zesa cables
Top Zvishavane businessman Kudakwashe Diza (43) and his companion Mark Tiweni (39) were yesterday slapped with a 48-month jail sentence each for stealing 810kg of aluminium cables belonging to Zesa Ho...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 08:08hrs | 2937 | by Staff reporter
Econet buys lithium-ion batteries from Tesla
Zimbabwe's biggest telecommunications company, Econet Wireless, has turned to lithium-ion batteries to power its base stations in the wake of incessant power shortages currently rocking the country....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:13hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Village containerised information centres, bridging digital gap
Devolution is one of President Mnangagwa's flagship policy. This policy is centred on bringing services and development as close as to the point of need as possible.The point of need in this c...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:40hrs | 89 | by Nick Mangwana
Join me in condemning Gushungo Clan & Mnangagwa over Mugabe's Mausoleum (Blue Roof)
The decision by president ED's government to construct a Mausoleum for our dictator RG Mugabe should be condemned by right thinking Zimbabweans. The hospitals have no medicine, parents are struggling ...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 21:41hrs | 4129 | by Don Chigumba
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