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Mliswa set to finish off Obert Mpofu
Hwange-based Zambezi Gas, a coal mining company, has appealed to the Temba Mliswa-led parliamentary panel to intervene so that it can get its land, which was allegedly grabbed by Zanu-PF administratio...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 12:41hrs | 3978 | by Staff reporter
Zesa guns for Bhasikiti
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (Pvt) Ltd (ZETDC) has approached the High Court seeking an order to compel Mkwasine Estate to garnish former Masvingo Provincial Affairs ...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:50hrs | 966 | by Staff reporter
Court scraps way leave tax on ZETDC
Local authorities across the country are set to lose a combined $16 million annually in potential revenue after the High Court scrapped way leave tax on the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distr...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:26hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
Stolen receipts storm rocks Zesa
SOME Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) officials have flown into the eye of a storm after receipts mysteriously disappeared from a banking hall in the Southern Region....Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:51hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
SA scraps 54-year-old bilateral trade agreement with Zimbabwean
Fears of significant job losses in the textiles and clothing sector have arisen after Archer Clothing in Bulawayo laid off 200 workers following South Africa's decision to scrap a 54-year-old bilatera...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:25hrs | 1795 | by Staff reporter
Solar energy plant not yet a boon for locals
MANAMA, Gwanda South - Three years ago, in 2015, when the 200-panel mini-grid solar energy power plant was established in this remote and hot rural community, 140km south of Gwanda town and about 20km...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:17hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
Hwange needs $50m for coke oven
HWANGE Colliery Mine needs around $50 million to fix the coke oven batteries which process coking coal that can be sold at $300 000 per tonne to make the company profitable, the colliery company schem...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:14hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo, Chinamasa links exposed
FORMER Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa's daughter, Kangai (38), claims she was assisting embattled businessman and Intratrek owner Wicknell Chivayo purchase "equipment" in the United States when so...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:18hrs | 4599 | by Staff reporter
Zinara officials use personal bank accounts for business
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) and National Oil Infrastructure Company of Zimbabwe (NOIC) were using personal bank accounts for employees outside Harare to administer cash transact...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:00hrs | 1116 | by Staff reporter
10-year jail term for tampering with Zesa meter
A Kwekwe man has been slapped with a mandatory 10-year jail term for tampering with a Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) meter. James Ngirazi of Star Mine outsi...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 05:46hrs | 564 | by Staff reporter
Renewing Mangudya's term an insult
George Charamba's revelation that John Mangudya's term is about to be renewed is nauseating, cynical, contemptuous, disrespectful and an insult to the suffering masses of Zimbabwe.Charamba is ...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 12:18hrs | 1638 | by Jacob Mafume, MDC National Spokesperson
ZETDC worker fined for illegal power connections
A Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) worker has been fined $600 for illegally connecting electricity to 11 households in Chitungwiza while pretending to be on official ...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:24hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bootlickers lashed out at
MDC-T legislator Priscilla Misihairabwi Mushonga yesterday blasted excessive bootlicking of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his wife, First Lady Auxillia, by individuals and organisations whom she sa...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 09:20hrs | 2726 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans, we are our own worst enemy
Dear EditorI'm sure somewhere someone is calling Zimbabwe a big joke as we are a country with misplaced priorities. For starters, we have good farming land, good climate, plenty natural resour...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 14:08hrs | 2716 | by Munya Shumba
BCC, Zesa debt impasse continues
THE Bulawayo City Council is charging the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company more than $800 000 monthly in royalties for the Bulawayo Power Station as the two entities continue...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 08:44hrs | 848 | by Staff reporter
Best advice on how to deal with current Zimbabwe economic crisis
Patience pays for our situation. What has contributed much to our current situation is that Zimbabwe pressed the panic button after contested elections. We need to move on and deal with what is curren...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1560 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Zimbabwe draws down $199 million for Hwange project
Zimbabwe has drawn down $199 million for the expansion of the Hwange Thermal Power Station (HPS), as the country presses ahead with efforts to ramp up local electricity generation. The expansi...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:15hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Vandalism, theft cost Zesa $20million
THE country's power utility, Zesa, has to date lost transformers worth about $20 million and hundreds of copper cable rods to theft and vandalism of the infrastructure. In an interview, Zesa s...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:14hrs | 69 | 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 | 191 | by Staff reporter
Tesla pfee in Zimbabwe
Among the many vehicles Zimbabweans have been importing is the country's first Tesla electric vehicle, a model X automobile that has sparked debates on social media. Zimbabweans have taken to ...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 20:22hrs | 8700 | by Staff reporter
ZESA must reverse ill-judged decision on massive electricity disconnection around Old Magwegwe
Old Magwegwe residents are warned of the ZESA operations of disconnecting power from the masses who cannot even afford a meal per day. Citizens who lost their pensions and savings to this very...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 06:59hrs | 661 | by Innocent Ndibali
Mliswa moves to cripple Obert Mpofu
Mines and Energy portfolio committee chairperson Temba Mliswa has said Parliament will pressure the Zimbabwe Power Company to stop buying coal from Zanu-PF administration secretary Obert Mpofu's Makom...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 14:57hrs | 4346 | 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 | 970 | by Staff reporter
Chinese deals, raw or fair for the Zimbabwean economy?
Given the recent developments in Zimbabwe and the African continent, it is worthy assessing how Chinese investments can affect the local economy going forward. Critical for Zimbabwe is how the country...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 21:41hrs | 1857 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zesa targets Zanu-PF chefs
Zesa targets Zanu-PF chefsZesa Holdings (Zesa) is going after top government and Zanu-PF officials, including other influential figures, whose failure to pay for the electricity they use is chocki...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 07:18hrs | 1548 | by Staff reporter
Govt working on new energy plan
GOVERNMENT intends to adopt an energy mix-based tariff structure as opposed to the prevailing commodity-based tariff for mining companies to ensure production efficiency, Energy and Power Development ...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 09:54hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Majome eyes PG post
Former MDC Member of Parliament Jessie Majome is among the legal minds gunning to become Zimbabwe's next Prosecutor-General (PG).Majome will battle it out with 10 other legal experts, who have...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:39hrs | 5321 | by Staff reporter
Zesa seeks to evict Telecel
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) Pension Fund has petitioned the High Court of Zimbabwe seeking an order to evict Telecel Zimbabwe Pvt Ltd from its Beitbridge premises, accusing the la...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:49hrs | 1130 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Sekeramayi hits hard times
Former Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi appears to have hit hard times as the senator for Marondera is battling to settle some of his obligations, the Daily News can report.According to the ...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 16:00hrs | 2440 | by Staff reporter
Gweru salary headache woes continue
GWERU City Council has, for the third time running, failed to pay its workers on time, citing cashflow problems as the local authority struggles to improve its monthly revenue collections, a senior co...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:43hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fat cats too must feel pain of ordinary citizens
THAT the majority Zimbabweans have started feeling the pain of Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's economic reforms as a necessary rite of passage in the healing of the Zimbabwean economy which has been s...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:33hrs | 349 | by Editorial - newsday
Mat North leaders accuse parastatals of bussing employees from other provinces
MATABELELAND North political and traditional leadership have expressed concern over marginalisation of local people who they said are being sidelined from jobs at Government projects in the province. ...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 06:59hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
15 Zesa bosses sent on mandatory leave
ZESA Holdings has sent 15 managers across its subsidiaries on mandatory leave to pave way for a forensic audit into the affairs of the parastatal, it has emerged. The audit has been going on a...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 06:58hrs | 1255 | by Staff reporter
Zesa boss breaches bail conditions
ZESA Holdings finance director Thokozani Dhliwayo is understood to have breached her bail conditions after reporting for work last Friday and holding meetings with the procurement team, including Phil...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 06:42hrs | 844 | by Staff reporter
Privatisation deadline for parastatals
Government has given under-performing State-owned enterprises (SOEs) and parastatals it has earmarked for disposal - among them NetOne, TelOne and People's Own Savings Bank (POSB) - between six and ni...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 06:40hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs electrocuted by Zesa debts
Top Zanu-PF officials are being dragged to court by State power utility Zesa Holdings (Zesa) over unpaid electricity bills.The cases illustrate how government officials, previously shielded fr...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 12:56hrs | 1935 | by Staff reporter
Rooting out corruption one arrest at a time
There is an old philosophical question that asks when exactly a certain amount of grains of sand turn into a heap. Where is the border – two grains, 100 grains, 1000 grains? We can witness something...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 09:16hrs | 1930 | by Knowledge Moyo
3 Zesa bigwigs in court over $11m scam
Three Zesa bosses appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Courts yesterday facing two counts of swindling the parastatal of over $11,8 million in a tender scam.Zesa Holdings group chief executive ...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:45hrs | 1049 | 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 | 307 | by Staff reporter
Zesa bosses arrested
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) chief executive officer, Engineer Joshua Chifamba, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution (ZETDC) managing director Engineer Julian Chi...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 05:39hrs | 999 | 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 | 567 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over Mthuli Ncube's new tax regime
CAPTAINS of industry and ordinary consumers yesterday implored Government to reconsider its new tax regime saying it will increase the cost of production and add more burden to citizens. Annou...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 07:21hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash-Zesa_Powertel unholly alliance
Editor,This email serves as a complaint for my experience since yesterday afternoon as I tried to top up electricity where I stay using EcoCash and cash.I am a tenant in Nketa 7, and t...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 15:36hrs | 528 | by Challenge Chabvuta
Zesa blacks out Soul Brothers show
THE much-anticipated Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo shutdown gig - Umcimbi Wabantu - largely anticipated to put the icing on a largely eventful arts jamboree, ended prematurely following a power cut...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1604 | by Staff reporter
Zesa sabotage Umcimbi Wabantu?
MISSILES rained at the 'cursed' Large City Hall car park in Bulawayo on Saturday night after a blackout in the middle of Soul Brother's performance at the Umcimbi Wabantu show. The show served...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:45hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Stop giving important tenders to petty criminals
A political commentator Dr Pedzisai Ruhanya has warned the government to stop giving vital tenders to petty criminals who stand accused of sabotaging government programmes through failure to execute t...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 09:56hrs | 2228 | by Stephen Jakes
Komichi believes he was born to fight oppression
MDC-T's newly-appointed deputy president Morgen Komichi believes he was born to fight oppression, misrule and other forms of dictatorship that go against democratic values.Komichi stole the li...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:59hrs | 696 | by Staff reporter
Heads to roll at Zesa
A comprehensive inquiry into shenanigans dogging Zesa over irregular tender and procurement processes at the power utility is expected to be handed over to President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a fortnight ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:41hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Zesa, TelOne thieves jailed 10 years each
Five Harare men were on Wednesday jailed to 10 years each for stealing Zesa and telecommunication cables in the city.Tawanda Mutekedzi (28), Paul Chisano (22), George Chimbutira (27), Stanley ...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:08hrs | 548 | by Staff reporter
Top entrepreneurs, firms talk service innovation
A CUSTOMER service symposium held last week attracted Zimbabwe's top entrepreneurs and firms, including quoted companies who gathered in Harare to explore strategies on how the country could catch up ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:03hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
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