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Bulawayo Thermal Power Station decommissioning to hit jobs
THE Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association ((BPRA) has warned of massive job losses in the country's second largest city as the power utility Zesa moves to decommission the Bulawayo thermal power ...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 17:20hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
An open letter to Chamisa and the CCC
This letter serves to advise you sir and your party to choose the candidates who represent your party in councils and parliament diligently, failure to do so will cost you in the future.In jus...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 07:57hrs | 14 | by Thandolwenkosi Mnyukhi
Bulawayo suburb plunges into darkness
BULAWAYO's Newton West suburb was plunged into darkness early yesterday morning after thieves once again stole copper cables as the spate of vandalism of critical public infrastructure continues unaba...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zesa customers 'fail' to buy tokens
Several households in parts of Harare that were recently connected to the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission Distribution Company's (ZETDC) billing system are failing to buy pre-paid tokens because of ...Published: 16 Feb 2023 at 04:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zesa workers in bribes storm
BULAWAYO residents have accused the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) staff of demanding bribes for them to repair electrical faults.ZETDC, a subsidiary of Zes...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How high-level corruption at ZESA plunged Zimbabwe into darkness!
The reason Zimbabwe is suffering by daily 20-hour electricity cuts is not necessarily due to antiquated equipment, neither can it ever be a so-called 'growing economy' - but, had everything to do with...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 09:39hrs | 21 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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
Residents finger ZETDC employees in cables theft
RESIDENTS of Queens Park East in Bulawayo have accused Zimbabwe Electricity, Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) employees of colluding with thieves in the theft of electricity copper cables...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
1 AM drama in Pumula East Citizens arrest cable theft cops
THREE officers based at Pumula Police Station in Bulawayo were on Sunday morning arrested for alleged theft of copper cables in Pumula East suburb.Residents arrested them at about 1AM. One of ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa vows to rehire Zesa technocrats
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said his government had convinced some former Zesa technocrats who were holding senior positions abroad to come back home and assist in finding a solution to the...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zesa workers go on strike claiming 'incapacitation'
Zimbabwe's embattled power utility ZESA faces a crippling strike by workers demanding better pay.The Zimbabwe Energy Workers Union (ZEWU) says ZESA has "mistaken our patience for a weakness", ...Published: 15 Feb 2022 at 19:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Zesa workers not involved in cables theft'
POWER utility Zesa Holdings has revealed that its employees frequently pick up bodies of people electrocuted while trying to steal electricity copper cables.None of the victims have been Zesa ...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:53hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Copper cable thieves leave suburb in darkness for a month
SOME Luvuve suburb residents in Bulawayo have gone for a month without electricity due to theft of copper cables.Bulawayo has of late witnessed an increase in theft of copper cables which has resu...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Zesa engineers running Eskom'
ZESA Holdings executive chairperson Sydney Gata has bemoaned massive brain drain at the power utility, saying its engineers were literally now running South Africa's Electricity Supply Commission (Esk...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Thieves plunge Byo suburbs into darkness
BULAWAYO has been hit by a series of power outages with several suburbs going for weeks without electricity as organised copper theft syndicates continue to strike in the city. The Zimbabwe El...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
State's key witness disowns police evidence
A star witness in the corruption trial of CAPS United boss and businessman Farai Jere stunned a court on Friday after disowning police evidence which saw two employees of the power utility ZESA being ...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 19:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fraudsters illegally generate Zesa tokens
POWER utility Zesa could be losing revenue to fraudsters working in cahoots with its employees who are illegally generating electricity tokens and then sell them to the public.Some Zesa employ...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Time for serious legal action against ZESA
As the constant, but greatly debilitating, power outages continue to torment the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans - who are already at the mercy of an unprecedented economic turmoil in 10 years - with se...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 10:47hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
MDC activists, family members brutalised in midnight raids
Fears are mounting over the safety of opposition activists, following abductions of members of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in a night raid allegedly by armed gunmen in Bulawayo last week....Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Residents Association calls for a shutdown of schools
The Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BUPRA) is calling for a shutdown of schools until the water situation returns to normalcy in Bulawayo. It is further calling for heads to roll in counci...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:55hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Zesa complicit in cable thefts: Residents
Zesa spokesperson Fullard Gwasira said vandalism of Zesa property was becoming more rampant, particularly in Bulawayo and blamed this on the economy and unemployed technicians."Zesa property i...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 08:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Graft: Whistleblowers need full legal protection
On June 17, 2019, one of the lead stories in The Herald was "President rescues ZESA whistleblowers". The article was in reference to the well-intended intervention by President Mnangagwa on th...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:09hrs | 3 | by Willard T. Mugadza
ZESA plunges Lobengula into darkness for 2 months
Residents of Lobengula West are up in arms against ZESA for plunging them in darkness in the past two months. A resident who spoke to this publication said in Lobengula West, corner Luveve roa...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 14:03hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa petitioned over Zesa corruption
Youth Against Corruption (Yac) has petitioned President Emmerson Mnangagwa demanding him to act on corruption at power utility Zesa Holdings (Zesa).Yac accused Zesa senior management of firing...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 13:42hrs | | 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 explosion worker dies
ONE of the four Zesa employees who were hospitalised after they were severely burnt following an explosion that occurred while they were working on an electric fault in Bulawayo's city centre, has die...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa employees injured in freak accident
FOUR Zesa employees in Bulawayo escaped death by a whisker yesterday when a circuit breaker they were working on caught fire and severely burnt them.The accident happened along a sanitary lane...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo reads Zesa executives the riot act
THE Minister of Energy and Power Development, Simon Khaya Moyo, has vowed to fire without sympathy all Zesa Holdings' officials involved in corrupt dealings and blamed illicit shenanigans for the "cat...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt warned over Zesa salaries
The government should never give in to demands by Zesa Holdings workers who want a 75% salary increment as this will have serious repercussions on the economy, analysts have warned.Zesa worker...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa employees barred from striking
THE Energy Sector Workers' Union's planned demonstration against Zesa's refusal to implement a 2012 collective bargaining agreement went up in smoke on Tuesday this week, after High Court judge Justic...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents accuse ZESA officials of demanding bribes
Mufakose residents in Harare have accused the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority officials of regularly demanding bribes from them in order to avoid disconnections.This was revealed by the ...Published: 15 Oct 2016 at 07:07hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Gweru's $14 million mega shopping mall under construction
A $14 MILLION mega shopping mall is under construction in Gweru funded by the Zimbabwe Electricity Industry Pension Fund (ZEIPF).The new shopping mall - dubbed Gweru Megawatt Shopping Complex ...Published: 09 Jun 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Lovemore Zigara
ZETDC fails to restore electricity supplies at Prospects Flats in Harare
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company has been accused of failing to restore electricity at the Prospects Flats in Waterfalls Harare for the past one week.Harare Resid...Published: 05 Feb 2016 at 05:28hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
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
30 prison guards fired over $700 000 theft
Twenty-four Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officials and six senior civil servants have been dismissed from duty for stealing $700 000 earmarked to fund the daily operations of pris...Published: 03 Aug 2014 at 21:32hrs | 1 | by Itai Mazire
Govt syndicate suspended for stealing from prisoners
The Government has suspended six high-ranking officials in the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and 24 prison officers from duty on allegations of diverting US$700 000 earmarked ...Published: 13 Apr 2014 at 07:04hrs | | by Itai Mazire
ZESA faces criticism over power cuts
ZESA has come under attack from the public who say the power utility's disruption of electricity supplies which started just after the elections smacks of ulterior motives.Several people told...Published: 14 Aug 2013 at 21:30hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zesa to retrench hundreds of workers
ZESA will retrench hundreds of workers countrywide following the adoption of new technologies which has made some jobs redundant.In Bulawayo, about 500 Zesa employees are set to lose their job...Published: 04 Mar 2013 at 04:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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