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Water crisis at Vumbachikwe poses serious health crisis
Water crisis that is as a result of a cocktail of challenges faced by the Vumbachikwe Mine community among them electricity disconnection by Zimbabwe Elec...Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 10:16hrs | 75 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's Deputy Health Minister duped
FORMER Alouvine Investments Private Limited company director, Rudo Sarudzayi Mapfumo, allegedly defrauded deputy Minister of Health and Child Care Dr John Mangwiro of money after she resold a property...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP fined for by-passing electricity
Chiredzi West Zanu-PF Member of Parliament, Farai Musikavanhu was recently caught with hands in the cookie jar by Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) for allegedly by-pa...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 15:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Harare demands 30-year-old debt from Zesa
Harare City Council says Zesa has not paid royalties for its properties in the capital for the past 30 years and the local authority is now withholding the power's utility's title deeds until it settl...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Power blackouts force Zimbabwe firms to shut down
Zimbabwe's economy could grind to a halt if power outages gripping the nation persist as production plunges, exports decline, companies lay off staff and disposable incomes shrink, after it emerged th...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Duty waiver on solar equipment
Government has approved a duty waiver on solar equipment and allowed mining firms to procure energy directly from the Southern African Power Pool. Further, selected hotels in resort areas will soon st...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls hotels to pay ZESA in US Dollar
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's cabinet has announced that it had taken a resolution to mandate hotels operating in the resort town of Victoria Falls to start paying their electricity bills in foreign ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 21:39hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZESA sue Minister for $414k – load shedding is collective punishment for untouchables' sins
The tragedy in Zimbabwe is that those who can least afford it have again and again been forced to subsidise the filthy rich. One prime example is Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax on all electro...Published: 18 May 2019 at 20:25hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Byo gets $7 million water boost
BULAWAYO City Council has received $7 million from the African Development Bank and the Government for the refurbishment of Ncema and Fernhill waterworks in a bid to increase water pumping capacity in...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Boycott Mugabe 'body viewing' rally
OPPOSITION parties in Bulawayo yesterday threatened to mobilise their members to boycott President Robert Mugabe's scheduled youth interface rally at White City Stadium on Saturday.The parties...Published: 02 Nov 2017 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why? Is quality education achievable? Transform the lives of our children
Mushumbi High has the potential of being among top 100 schools in the country. On 16 September 2004 his Excellency President Robert Gabriel Mugabe donated computers to the school as to pave way for th...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 08:56hrs | 14 | by Anonymous
Morgenster Hosp shuts down
Morgenster, one of the biggest referral hospitals in the country closed down on Monday after its entire nursing staff staged a sit-in to protest against a four-week power cut and another week without ...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 04:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mine worker dupes residents of $32K Zesa money
A 52-Year-Old man from Caesar Mine, Mashonaland Central is in serious trouble with the Criminal Investigations Department (C.I.D) after defrauding residents of an amount estimated at US$32 000 meant f...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 12:21hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu PF youth member challenges members to pay ZESA bills
Zanu PF youth member Fidelis Fengu has challenged his party members to do the honourable thing by settling the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) bills and stop taking advantage of bei...Published: 21 Jul 2015 at 10:38hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Highfields residents baffled by Zesa bills
Residents of Highfields' Egypt suburbs have complained over the astronomical bills sent to them by the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa).Harare Residents Trust revealed the dev...Published: 25 Jun 2015 at 08:02hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Tenant dragged to court over insults on barrenness
TWO tenants who share the same house dragged each other to the civil courts over insults and ZESA bills. Rufaro Nyabasa appeared before Mutare magistrate Mrs Sharon Chipanga for allegedly ...Published: 04 Oct 2014 at 16:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man stabs wife over payment of bills
Police have arrested a Shurugwi man who stabbed his wife and left her for dead over payment of bills. Lesley Jamanda, 23, of house number 144 Sebanga 3, appeared before regional magistrate Morgan Nema...Published: 07 Apr 2014 at 06:16hrs | | by Catherine Mutema
Prophet in trouble over 'miracle electricity recharge'
A ZESA official yesterday stormed a local newspaper newsroom demanding to know the details of a Nketa prophet who claimed to have performed a miracle of paying off energy bills for his congregates....Published: 07 Mar 2014 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Angeline Mpofu
Prominent city lawyer implicated in housing wrangle
A Pumula man, 65, is accusing a prominent city lawyer of causing him to lose his house in a suspected fraudulent auction.Enock Mpofu is accusing Brighton Ndove of Marondedze, Mukuru, Ndove an...Published: 27 Dec 2013 at 01:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
When white factor becomes irrelevant
as Manheru's Zanu-PF house of cards collapses ...Published: 04 Jul 2012 at 13:21hrs | | by Lammiel Mangwanani
Emakhandeni, Luveve residents demand compensation from Zesa
RESIDENTS from Emakhandeni and Luveve suburbs have threatened not to pay their Zesa bills for this month after going for eight days without electricity.They are also demanding compensation for...Published: 26 May 2012 at 04:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why Zesa bills are so high
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Zimbabwe to partly pay Moza to reduce $76M Zesa's power debt
ZIMBABWE is this week expected to pay about US$36 million to Mozambique's Hydro Cahora Bassa to reduce Zesa's power debt.Zesa owes Hydro Cahora Bassa US$76 million.It also emerged yest...Published: 10 Apr 2012 at 21:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe will not get VIP treatment over ZESA bill
Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma says President Robert Mugabe would not be given VIP treatment during the current efforts by the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) to re...Published: 05 Apr 2012 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T spokesperson sued for non-payment of Zesa bills
MDC-T spokesperson Mr Douglas Mwonzora is being sued for vacating a house he was renting in Mabelreign, Harare, without clearing electricity and water bills amounting to US$4 820,49. Mwonzora...Published: 28 Mar 2012 at 05:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T: Inventing a matching scandal
Before the 1789 revolution which gave a bloody full-stop to the Frankish Monarchical line, France was an unliked, war-mongering polity. That dubious status continued during the "reign" of Robspierre, ...Published: 24 Mar 2012 at 04:52hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Elton Mangoma under fire for leaked Zesa bills
Energy and Power Development minister Elton Mangoma came under fire from President Mugabe and Zanu-PF cabinet ministers at a high level meeting on Tuesday in which leaked Zesa bills, including disclo...Published: 23 Mar 2012 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt ministers and senior civil servants refusing to pay their water bills
THE Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) has been prejudiced of about US$90 million in unpaid water bills with a huge chunk of it owed by government chefs who use the water to irrigate their far...Published: 03 Mar 2012 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimplats mine workers down tools, want company to pay their electricity bills
Hundreds of workers at giant platinum producer Zimplats have embarked on industrial action to press the mining company to pay for their household electricity supplies.The strike has partially ...Published: 22 Jan 2012 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Byo residents attack city council for disconnecting water
BULAWAYO residents have attacked the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) for resorting to disconnecting water to force residents to settle their bills, saying the exercise was tantamount to murder.Acc...Published: 20 Dec 2011 at 10:33hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Appeal for research information for a book
I desperately need some information for my book from the people in Zimbabwe or those with contacts with them. I promise to treat all submitted information in strictest confidence and will not disclose...Published: 22 Nov 2011 at 06:02hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Budget must realigning the country's economic landscape - Buy Zimbabwe
Buy Zimbabwe expects that today's announcement in the 2012 Budget by Finance Minister Tendai Biti shall be more performance centered realigning the country's economic landscape with the different sect...Published: 21 Nov 2011 at 10:43hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
I applaud Bulawayo residents for Zesa money clubs
I have been following with interest the hardships that ordinary Zimbabweans are facing with electricity bills that I am even writing a book which includes Zesa. But, please don’t ru...Published: 16 Nov 2011 at 12:51hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Bulawayo residents form money clubs to cover ZESA bills
ASTOUNDING are the measures desperate residents have taken in a bid to curb their already insane electricity debts.In a bid to reduce debts on electrical bills residents-in Bulawayo's Western...Published: 16 Nov 2011 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs Defend Mberengwa East MP - Hlongwane - On ZESA story
Members of the House of Assembly have castigated the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Authority (ZBC) journalist Constance Makoni for rushing to question the morals of members of parliament while failing to do s...Published: 09 Nov 2011 at 06:38hrs | | by Sehlule Zondo
Reporter wrong on MPs Zesa Bills story
THE journalist, who reported that I said that Members of Parliament should not pay their bills including those for Zesa because they cannot afford them, got it all wrong, a Zanu PF legislator has said...Published: 08 Nov 2011 at 09:45hrs | | by Sehlule Zondo
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