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Econet fires warning shot
Econet Wireless has warned that they might be forced to switch off the network during electricity downtime if the situation persists. Econet was speaking after Saturday's blackout which was caused by ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 10398 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Reports that Gems are receiving the shorter end of the monetary stick are disturbing
Some career political propagandists are now so desperate for 'musical chairs' on the political arena that social media is ablaze with hilarious comments and derogatory satirical caricature. 'T...Published: 18 hrs ago | 993 | by Thomas Murisa
Govt shilly-shallying threatening Zimdollar sustainability
ON June 24, through Statutory Instrument 142 of 2019, government boldly declared "the Zimbabwe dollar… the sole legal tender in Zimbabwe in all transactions". But worryingly, and curiously, the same...Published: 22 hrs ago | 624 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa 'victim' to solve Zimbabwe power problems
Former Eskom chief executive Matshela Koko's company Matshela Energy has been awarded a tender to construct a solar plant to ease Zimbabwe's energy crisis. In a statement, Zimbabwe Energy Regulato...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 12:00hrs | 6546 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Power outage cripples Econet services
Econet services were down for long hours yesterday following a power cut that affected its network operations centre (NOC) in Harare, it has been revealed.Customers complained of intermittent ...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:23hrs | 883 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe removes barriers to solar energy expansion
Power-short Zimbabwe has removed import duties on solar-energy-related products, from batteries to cables, and mandated that all new construction in the country include solar systems, government offic...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:18hrs | 703 | by Thompson Reuters Foundation
Zimbabwe reels as 18-hr power cuts
For Cosmas Kabondo, the rolling 18-hour power cuts have made life more expensive as his family is scrambling for alternative sources of energy.Zimbabwe's power crisis deepened early this month...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:17hrs | 499 | by Staff rpeorter
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 | 424 | by Staff reporter
Power shortage hits mobile phone services
THE full scale of the effects of load shedding hit the country yesterday, after power cuts reportedly interrupted mobile services including EcoCash mobile platform disrupting individual and business f...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:05hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
A second President is possible for Zimbabwe to save the little left
The citizens may have lost out on many resources (mining) but remember we can still support anyone we want to turn our fortunes around. We need to have one we anoint as an economic leader, one we ...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 09:07hrs | 2243 | by Justice Maphosa
Getaway car catches fire
TWO suspected copper cable thieves were recently arrested after their getaway car caught fire during a high-speed chase along Harare-Nyamapanda Road. The two were fleeing the police after stea...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 14:24hrs | 943 | 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 | 4315 | by Staff reporter
Chasi studies technical team Eskom report
Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi is studying a report compiled by a technical team he recently dispatched to South Africa to meet Eskom officials to explore avenues of accessing mor...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:53hrs | 588 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwean consumers helped bankrupt Zesa'
Consumers played a part in bankrupting Zimbabwe's power utility, Zesa Holdings by failing to pay their bills on time resulting in the institution now failing to provide the much-needed electricity, pl...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | 489 | by New Ziana.
July Moyo steps in to resolve BCC, ZPC rift
GOVERNMENT has stepped in to resolve the dispute between the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and power utility Zesa Holdings over the ownership of the coal-fired Bulawayo Power Station.The BCC has...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1712 | by Staff reporter
Women give Gweru council 14-day ultimatum
WOMEN Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) Midlands Chapter has given Gweru City Council 14 days to explain the source of funding for former town clerk, Daniel Matawu's exit package as well as resolve the cit...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | 453 | 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 | 688 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe miners told to pay utility bills in foreign currency
Mining companies in Zimbabwe will have to use foreign currency to pay for power but can make their own arrangements for imports from foreign suppliers, the country's energy minister said.The o...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 22:16hrs | 1568 | by Bloomberg
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 | 2881 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe should have sent the Gems to AFCON
Like a lot of the country, we have been clinging to the Gems for light in these cold, dark, Zesa-less times. And the netball team has not disappointed! The Gems qualified for the second stage ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 17:55hrs | 1598 | by Kubatana
Zesa to install prepaid meters on govt buildings
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) plans to install prepaid meters on government buildings to curb wastage and contain government's debt to the power utility.Speaking at a Minist...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 16:16hrs | 632 | by Staff reporter
Zesa dismisses four-day load shedding reports
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has dismissed reports that it will switch to stage four of load shedding, which would see affected suburbs experiencing four days...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 598 | by Staff reporter
Solar use incentives on the cards to 'ease pressure on Zesa'
Government is crafting incentives to promote investment into solar energy to reduce pressure on grid electricity, whose generation is currently depressed due to low water levels in Kariba dam. ...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1084 | by Staff reporter
Zesa sets the record straight on levels of load shedding
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) says it has noted with concern gross misrepresentations by the Financial Gazette (Page 2 - 11th July 2019 edition) that ZESA Hold...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 19:42hrs | 6741 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube was also surprised
It's almost a year since Finance minister Mthuli Ncube was appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to help turn around an economy weighed down by decades of ruinous policies.In the 10 months...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 15:01hrs | 13710 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Senator escapes house inferno
ZANU-PF Central Committee Member and Bulawayo Senator Molly Mpofu's house in Magwegwe West was on Friday night almost burnt down after fire fighters failed to attend to the scene claiming they had no ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:43hrs | 1092 | by Staff reporter
Iconic towers part of Bulawayo's identity
SOMETIME last month it emerged that the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) was planning to demolish the thermal power towers situated at Zesa main, near the Railway Station. News of the impeding demolition ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:41hrs | 765 | by Raisedon Baya
Wheat farmers hit by power cuts
THE long hours of power cuts being implemented by Zesa has hit hard on the country's winter wheat farming with yields now expected to drastically go down.Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture,...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:35hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Wheat farmers hit by power cuts
THE long hours of power cuts being implemented by Zesa has hit hard on the country's winter wheat farming with yields now expected to drastically go down.Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture,...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:33hrs | 58 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe bid to rejoin Commonwealth gets boost
ZIMBABWE'S efforts to rejoin the Commonwealth are well on course following the cordial engagement between Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, Dr Sibusiso Moyo and the grouping's secretar...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 06:15hrs | 7427 | by Staff Reporter
Chase this Kambarami and his his side kicks back to their roots - MLF
MLF has always maintained that partaking in Zimbabwe elections when we are Mthwakazi is the worst thing we can engage in as Mthwakazi. Before a single year has lapsed, he has shown the true Agenda the...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 20:03hrs | 5499 | by MLF
Schools, Households and Businesses are the game changers in curbing electricity crisis in Zimbabwe
Greetings Editor, Of recent I got an interest especially from Zimbabwean school and I realized that especially schools can be game changers that is in solving power crisis not only in Zi...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 20:02hrs | 1085 | by Justice Maphosa
How to speak Zimbabwean
Very often, you hear the words "resilient" and "innovative" attached to Zimbabwean people. But what most outsiders don't know is that to be Zimbabwean, one must speak a language only known to the coun...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 19:55hrs | 1916 | by Chazz Cummings
'Oh Ntuthuziyathunqa, my heritage, kindly refuse to die!'
It is with utter dismay, sadness and inexplicable shock, to native Bulawayans and Matabelelanders in general, to hear through the grapevine, of the proposed monstrous intentions of the culturally inse...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:12hrs | 1227 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Zimbabwe power outages a manifestation of endemic corruption in govt
THE massive daily power outages rocking the country have had a devastating impact on an already fragile economy, throwing into disarray President Emmerson Mnangagwa's mantra that "Zimbabwe is open for...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 09:24hrs | 1083 | by Staff reporter
Getting Zimbabwe back on track
IT is extremely frustrating to sit on the sidelines of this game we are all playing called "getting Zimbabwe back on track".We are doing so many of the right things, our team is looking much b...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 09:16hrs | 3019 | by Eddie Cross
Mangoma nailed over Zesa tender scam
PROCUREMENT and Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) chief executive Nyasha Chizu yesterday said former Energy minister Elton Mangoma violated the Procurement Act by giving a South Korean company a...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1412 | by Staff reporter
Power cut claims at JM Nkomo airport dismissed
The Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz) has dismissed claims that a fastjet aircraft failed to land at Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo on Wednesday evening due ...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:28hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans face another fuel price hike
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says government is set to increase the prices of electricity and fuel because the current pricing structure was no longer sustainable.Zimbabwe is currently battli...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 19:57hrs | 5811 | by Staff reporter
ZESA to charge clients in US Dollars
National power utility ZESA Holdings says it is seeking a government exemption to charge mining companies and other exporters in United States dollars to guarantee power supplies.ZESA wrote to...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 10:55hrs | 10328 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa in an audacious bid to undercut Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa in an audacious bid to undercut President Emmerson Mnangagwa, visited a newly completed clinic at the run-down settlement of Hopley, south of the capital a day before the Zan...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 08:08hrs | 6188 | by newzimbabwe
Mthuli Ncube could hike rates over 50% to deal with speculators
Zimbabwe won't hesitate to raise interest rates above their current level of 50 percent to deal with speculative borrowers, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said on Monday.As inflation soared, th...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 21:57hrs | 7442 | by Reuters
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 | 3348 | by Ndou Paul
Zesa throws RBZ under the bus
ZIMBABWE'S power utility, Zesa Holdings says the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has not provided with foreign currency to import power since last October.This comes as the southern African cou...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:59hrs | 3291 | by Staff reporter
RioZim, Zesa to ink power deal
RIOZIM says its US$1,5 billion investment into building a 2 800 megawatts thermal power station in Sengwa, Gokwe North, remains firmly on course with the company now moving to the next phase of prelim...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:41hrs | 445 | by Staff reporter
Chasi flies to SA to finalise a power import deal with Eskom
Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi is in South Africa to finalise a power import deal with Eskom as the Government moves to reduce power shortages. Minister Chasi's trip to So...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:35hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa to discuss Zimbabwe's energy woes with Eskom
President Cyril Ramaphosa has said he will discuss Zimbabwe's energy woes with Eskom, adding that boosting the supply of electricity to SA's northern neighbour requires a "balancing act". The ...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1330 | by Staff reporter
Chasi pushes for duty free solar equipment imports
ENERGY and Power Development Minister, Advocate Fortune Chasi, says modalities are being put in place to ensure solar products are imported duty free to increase investment in renewable energy across ...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1488 | by Staff reporter
Power cuts cripple informal sector
THE incessant power cuts being experienced across the country have hit the informal sector hardest with players now spending long hours or days without production. The power utility, Zesa, is ...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:17hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Witness cornered in Mangoma case
THE second witness in the trial of former Energy Minister Elton Mangoma was yesterday taken to task by the accused's lawyers on why he was in court after previously claiming to be a stranger to the ca...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:15hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
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