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Fresh scandal rocks ZESA
AN external audit has unearthed a massive scandal implicating a senior Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) executive who allegedly prejudiced the struggling power utility of millions of dolla...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 06:44hrs | 2413 | by Staff reporter
Zesa board reinstated
Zesa Holdings executive chairman Dr Sydney Gata and the rest of the Zesa board can now return to duty under a directive by President Mnangagwa pending finalisation of investigations after the Zimbabwe...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:14hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mnangagwa clears ZESA's Dr Gata to go back to work
Executive Chairman of ZESA holdings Dr. Sydney Gata has been re-instated to his position as Exercutive Chairman.The matter was communicated by the government on Tuesday afternoon. Secr...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 13:04hrs | 5928 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zesa seeks tariff review
Zesa Holdings wants to raise its tariffs, saying the present tariffs were now sub-economic. Acting managing director for Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:08hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
Corruption trials to be speeded up
Corruption cases will now be expedited within two months after a suspect is arrested with nine of the 27 recently opened court cases ready for trial a departure from the previous trend where accused p...Published: 10 Sep 2020 at 06:46hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo power outage: Woman electrocuted while relieving self
A WOMAN who was electrocuted while relieving herself at a Zesa sub-station in Bulawayo City Centre on Thursday afternoon has been identified as Ms Samukeliso Moyo of Fort Rixon.Bulawayo police...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:52hrs | 1853 | by Staff Reporter
High Court upholds Gata's suspension
The High Court has upheld a decision to suspend Zesa Holdings executive chairman Sydney Gata pending investigations into abuse of office allegations. Gata faces a string of allegations, among ...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 07:51hrs | 1977 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree plunged into darkness
PLUMTREE Town and the border post have been plunged into darkness for the past three days as Zesa is struggling to restore power after thieves indiscriminately vandalised overhead electricity cables i...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 06:20hrs | 1162 | by Staff reporter
Zesa's daily power cuts worsen
ZESA through its ZETDC subsidiary announced the implementation of load shedding schedules lasting nearly 10 hours a day. Load curtailment will be exercised during the morning peak (0500hrs to ...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 11:44hrs | 3569 | by Staff reporter
Forensic audit exposes massive NRZ fraud
A FORENSIC audit report on the National Railways of Zimbabwe procurement system has revealed that fraudulent activities could have cost the rail company millions of United States dollars.Condu...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1609 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi is too shallow-minded - MLF
Vice President Kembo Mohadi is correct in asking who hasn't wronged the other but very wrong in suggesting that Mthwakazi has at some point wronged someone. We have always expected such words from him...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:03hrs | 2124 | by Mthwakazi Liberation Front
Covid-19 triggers load shedding
LOAD shedding being experienced in the country is set to continue as experts who are meant to fix technical problems at some of the country's power generating stations are failing to travel due to res...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:30hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
Chasi excelled as Energy Minister, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has inadvertently admitted he fired a competent minister, Fortune Chasi, who ensured the country had uninterrupted power supplies during his tenure.Chasi was relie...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:25hrs | 2788 | by Staff reporter
Minister Soda fixes Hwange power unit, boosts supply
ONE of the power generating units at Hwange Thermal Power Station was fixed yesterday to boost the country's unity capacity by more than 150MW, Energy and Power Development Minister, Soda Zhemu has sa...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:32hrs | 1955 | by Staff reporter
'Chasi a victim of state capture'
FORMER energy minister Fortune Chasi (pictured)'s dramatic sacking from cabinet two weeks ago was a culmination of an intriguing plot of state capture by powerful fuel cartels, notably his spirited bu...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 07:19hrs | 9178 | by Staff reporter
New minister flexes muscle at Zesa
Newly-appointed Energy Minister Soda Zhemu has flexed his muscles by appointing Benson Munyaradzi as the acting CEO to replace Eliab Chikwenhere, who had been at the helm of the power utility for bare...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:39hrs | 6462 | by Staff reporter
Hwange expansion behind schedule
WORK on the Hwange Power Station expansion to add two units with combined output of 600 megawatts, has reached 48 percent completion, but has fallen behind the second quarter target of 57 percent due ...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:24hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
PSL boss continue his freedom bid
Premier Soccer League (PSL) boss Farai Jere continued with his freedom bid yesterday where he accused complainants in his case of trying to elbow him out of business.The Caps United boss is ac...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:09hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
'Don't panic over power cuts'
Wheat farmers have been urged not to panic over the current power disruptions as the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement is working closely with the Ministry of Energy and Pow...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 06:47hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala, Jere bail rulings set for Wednesday
MDC Alliance Vice-Chairperson, Job Sikhala and CAPS United President, Farai Jere will spend another night in custody pending their bail ruling set for this Wednesday.Farai Jere and his co-accu...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 19:19hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
Zesa explains power outages
ZESA HOLDINGS has said power outages being experienced in different parts of the country are due to a technical fault at Kariba and Hwange Power station. Power supply had vastly improved since...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 10:26hrs | 3437 | by Staff reporter
CAPS United on the edge
CAPS United Football Club boss Farai Jere, who is facing a US$3 566 878 fraud charge involving an electricity smart meter tender, has accused jealousy competitors of causing his arrest to hijack his c...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 09:32hrs | 1468 | by Precious Shumba
Zesa faces depressed power supply
ZESA Holdings would like to advise its valued customers countrywide that there is limited power supply on the national electricity grid due to a technical fault at Hwange Power Station. The depressed ...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 09:28hrs | 1579 | by Staff reporter
CIO operative arrested over threats
A CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation operative allegedly threatened to shoot a Zesa employee, who was inspecting a transformer at his plot in Mvurwi.William Wachenuka (44) pleaded not guilty be...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:22hrs | 2826 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala to spend the weekend in custody
MDC Alliance national vice-chairperson Job Sikhala, who was arrested on Friday, will spend the weekend behind bars after the court threw out his application for refusal to be placed on remand.Sikh...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 20:00hrs | 1366 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Mudenda reported to the Special Anti-Corruption Unit
Pressure Group Chapter 2 Movement has reported Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda to the Special Anti-Corruption Unit over allegations involving a $1 million land scandal which involves ZESA Holdings...Published: 22 Aug 2020 at 18:19hrs | 4748 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Misfortunes, fortunes of Fortune Chasi
Zimbabwe has not had power outages for most of the period under the coronavirus lockdown.Even when President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration eased the restrictions on industry and commerce...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 12:57hrs | 13825 | by Tawanda Karombo
ZACC swoops on Gata
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating suspended ZESA executive Sydney Gata over possible abuse of office and corruption. A charge sheet has since been completed while suspen...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:58hrs | 3682 | by Staff reporter
There is no peace in Zimbabwe, but an intense crisis of paralyzing fear of a ruthless uncaring regime
It never ceases to thoroughly perplex me, if not downright shocking, whenever those in the Zimbabwe ruling elite engage in their usual self-congratulatory delusions of how they have managed to maintai...Published: 18 Aug 2020 at 19:28hrs | 735 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa must explain Chasi's exit
AFTER the revelations or allegations that have been raised of possible corruption by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the Zesa Holdings crisis which saw the Zesa chair, board chairperson Sydney Gata an...Published: 17 Aug 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1916 | by Kennedy Kaitano
Is Hopewell a scribe or activist?
SINCE the arrest of journalist, Hopewell Chin'ono last month, Zimbabwe has witnessed an overflow of copious amounts of social media vitriol being freely splashed around against President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 16:10hrs | 3431 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
Compatible with the President's expectations on 'looting'
In 2016, APR, a US company won the Dema project through a proper tender system, and on the last minute the tender was reversed and awarded to Sakunda Holdings which is owned by Kudakwashe Tagwirei. Th...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 2045 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Why Mnangagwa fired Chasi
President Emmerson Mnangagwa wielded the axe on Energy minister Fortune Chasi over a litany of issues that were allegedly causing a strain between them including factionalism in the ruling party, it h...Published: 16 Aug 2020 at 08:30hrs | 9011 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's explosive 15-tweet thread
G40 kingpins and self-exiled former Cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has 'revealed' why President Emmerson Mnangagwa fired Fortune Chasi as the Minister of Energy with immediate effect....Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 21:17hrs | 8677 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo to reveal why Mnangagwa fired Chasi - 'It's serious stuff worse than corruption!'
G40 kingpins and self-exiled former Cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo is expected to reveal why Mnangagwa fired Fortune Chasi as the Minister of Energy with immediate effect.Moyo said h...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 20:16hrs | 5794 | by Ndou Paul
Biti's Civic society demands answers over US$18 billion debt
CIVIC society groups have amplified their voices seeking to know how the country's debt ballooned to US$18 billion.The lobby groups are demanding debt transparency after taxpayers have been fo...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:40hrs | 4073 | by Staff reporter
Corporate Governance and State Entities Decay in Zimbabwe
The unfolding corporate governance scandal at Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) provides a hint of how the country's State Entities and Parastatals (SEPs) have been run down over the years....Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:11hrs | 1219 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnangagwa suspends Gata, Zesa board members
The entire Zesa Holdings board, including executive chairman Dr Sydney Gata, was suspended by President Mnangagwa yesterday, with the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) given four weeks to con...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:43hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Vandals worsen Bulawayo water woes
BULAWAYO'S water woes got worse on Friday after thieves vandalised Zesa powerlines at Inyankuni Dam Booster Station, cutting off supplies to the water pump.The city is currently on a six-day w...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
System glitch leaves scores of Zesa clients stranded
SCORES of consumers were left stranded in Bulawayo yesterday, failing to buy prepaid power tokens as the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) online system had some techn...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Zesa boss suspended over graft allegations
ZESA Holdings executive chairman Dr Sydney Gata has been suspended from office and will be blocked from accessing his office at the power utility's headquarters, the Minister of Energy and Power Devel...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
Zesa chairperson suspended and banned
ZESA Holdings executive chairperson Dr Sydney Gata has been suspended and will not be allowed to enter the power utility's headquarters, Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi said yester...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 07:16hrs | 978 | by Staff Reporter
Zesa workers rally behind Gata
ZIMBABWE Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) Holdings employees have taken sides with the parastatal's embattled executive chairperson, Sydney Gata, who is being investigated for corruption.Ga...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1926 | by Staff reporter
No power cuts till year end, industry assured
INDUSTRY is assured of consistent power supply after State power utility Zesa Holdings said it will not effect load shedding until end of this year despite recent significant increase in demand for el...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:30hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Zesa announces power cuts
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) will embark on a temporary 16-hour power supply cut this Thursday for the purpose of carrying out critical annual maintenance wor...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:11hrs | 5432 | by Staff reporter
Zesa boss Gata suspended for corruption
ZESA executive chairperson Sydney Gata has been suspended to pave way for investigations into his alleged corrupt activities.Gata was suspended yesterday after Energy minister Fortune Chasi wr...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:35hrs | 1903 | by Staff reporter
Zesa boss faces corruption probe
ENERGY minister Fortune Chasi says he has been alerted to fresh corruption allegations at Zesa Holdings (Zesa) - and specifically being perpetrated by executive chairperson Sydney Gata - and which the...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 16:20hrs | 1138 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabweans arrested over R7 million cigarettes haul
POLICE in South Africa on Monday arrested two Zimbabweans who craftly cut out special compartments in a fuel tanker to smuggle locally-made cigarettes worth R7 million across the border where demand h...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1717 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's officials fail to appear before Tendai Biti
FINANCE ministry permanent secretary George Guvamatanga and his ministry officials yesterday failed to appear before the Tendai Biti-led Public Accounts Committee to give oral evidence on the Finance ...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:24hrs | 2288 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zesa boss arrested
Former Zesa Holdings group chief executive, Josh Chifamba, and two other senior officials, were arrested yesterday by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) on allegations of appointing a city...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:00hrs | 938 | by Staff reporter
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