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Midlands sets target of 12 000 hectares of wheat
Farmers in Midlands have made impressive progress in the 2025 winter wheat planting season, with over 1,000 hectares already planted and 824 hectares having germinated. This early momentum signals a p...Published: 20 May 2025 at 09:59hrs | 40 | by Staff reporter
Kariba Dam water levels records steady rise
Water levels in Lake Kariba have recorded a steady rise, offering renewed optimism for improved electricity generation in Zimbabwe and Zambia, according to the latest update from the Zambezi River Aut...Published: 05 May 2025 at 15:54hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council maintains water shedding
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has announced that the city's water-shedding regime will remain in place, despite recent heavy rains and the recommissioning of uMzingwane Dam. The move comes as the counci...Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 12:01hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's dam water levels up by 1.59%
The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) reports an encouraging rise in water levels across the country's major dams, attributing the improvement to the ongoing wet spell experienced nationwide....Published: 11 Jan 2025 at 18:40hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's 120-hour water shedding to continue
BULAWAYO residents will continue receiving water for only two days per week, as water levels continue to dwindle at major supply dams due to drought, with the possibility of further tightening of the ...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Farmers, lithium miner clash
HORTICULTURE farmers in Goromonzi have accused the Platinum Lithium Zimbabwe (PLZ) mine of negatively affecting their socio-economic life, while others have welcomed the miner's activities in the area...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Met Dept issues heavy rains alert
HEAVY rains are expected across much of the country for the next seven days from today to Wednesday next week, the Meteorological Services Department forecasts, as the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone ...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC blames power outages on dwindling water levels in Kariba
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has attributed on-going power shortages to depressed electricity generation owing to dwindling dam water levels at Kariba dam....Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe power supplies set to improve
RISING water levels in Lake Kariba and the imminent synchronisation of Hwange units 7 and 8 to the grid - which will add a cumulative 600MW - have raised expectations that the country's power supply s...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Power crisis here to stay
LOOKING at the Kariba Dam water levels it seems that there will be no end to the crisis. In fact it is set to worsen unless Hwange comes up to full speed next month. The Zambezi River Authority ...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:27hrs | | by A McCormick
Council to decommission Umzingwane Dam
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has said it will decommission Umzingwane Dam tomorrow due to low inflows into the reservoir.Another dam, Upper Ncema is expected to be decommissioned in July....Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dam levels still depressed
Water levels in Bulawayo city's dams remains low at 53% despite the heavy rains that pounded the area over the past few weeks with the Bulawayo City Council saying it is still reviewing plans to decom...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:06hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Rising Kariba Dam water levels spur Zimbabwe, Zambia power generation
THE Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) yesterday said the rise in water levels in the Kariba Dam catchment area would result in uninterrupted water allocation for power generation for both Zimbabwe and Zam...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe dams gain record inflows in more than 5 decades
Dams in the country have gained a record 47,5 percent inflows since 1974 following improved rains in the current 2020–2021 summer season, the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) says. ...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's dam water levels register massive rise
Zimbabwe's national dam levels stood at 89 percent as of February 15, 2021 - a 50,7 percent rise from levels of September 28, 2020, according to the latest update from the Zimbabwe National Water Auth...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 17:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No significant inflows to Bulawayo dams
Bulawayo supply dams have not received significant inflows since the start of the rainy season, the Zimbabwe National water Authority (Zinwa) has said. Other dams in some parts of the country ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kariba Dam water levels improve
Water levels are rising early in Lake Kariba as runoff from nearby areas starts flowing in and the first signs are seen of greater inflows from the upper catchment, allowing zesa to increase significa...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council worried over dam water levels
Bulawayo council has expressed concern at the rate at which water levels in its supply dams are dwindling, with shortages set to worsen.Residents have endured periodic water cuts blamed on low...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zesa says deal with Eskom close
State power utility Zesa has commenced commercial discussions with South Africa's, Eskom, with a view to resume imports and plug a crippling power deficit.Zesa used to supplement a far less po...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:43hrs | | 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
Water shortages threaten Silalatshani irrigation scheme
Silalatshani Irrigation Scheme in Insiza South, Matabeleland South, which has been a lifeline for Filabusi and surrounding areas for the past 50 years, is facing crippling water shortages due to low d...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt evicts villagers to pave way for game park
The 1 000 Masvingo families who have been living at Mzaro Farm near Sikato resettlement area since 2000, are being evicted to pave way for the establishment of a game park, The Standard has establishe...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
50 earthquakes hit Zimbabwe, more to come
At least 50 earthquakes hit Zimbabwe in 2016, with the country likely to experience more tremors yearly, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has said.Some of the earthquakes with ...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 08:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Kariba Dam water levels still critical'
KARIBA Dam water levels remain critically low as its catchment area did not receive significant inflows this year, keeping power supplies from Zimbabwe's main electricity source in a precarious st...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 18:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kariba power generation up 70%
GENERATION capacity at Kariba South Hydroelectric Power Station, Zimbabwe's main source of electricity, will go up by 70,17 percent, after the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) reviewed upwards the am...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kariba hydro power project 50% complete
CONSTRUCTION work at the Zimbabwe Power Company's Kariba South Power Station's generation capacity extension is 50 percent complete with some key aspects of the project nearing completion. ZPC...Published: 16 Jun 2016 at 09:56hrs | | by Golden Sibanda
Zimbabwe average dam levels at 51% - Upper Ncema is almost dry
The country's average dam level remains at 51 percent and no dam has reached 100 percent capacity despite rains which are currently being experienced in most areas.In previous years, some of t...Published: 11 Feb 2016 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe dam water levels critical
THE country's average dam level remains at 51 percent and no dam has reached 100 percent capacity despite rains which are currently being experienced in some areas.In previous years, some of t...Published: 10 Feb 2016 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dams remain in critical levels
BULAWAYO'S supply dam water levels remain in the red despite the few rains experienced recently amid revelations that the city might resort to the dreaded water-shedding exercise, Sunday News can reve...Published: 27 Dec 2015 at 10:21hrs | 4 | by Vusumuzi Dube
Kariba water levels continue to drop
Kariba Dam water levels have dropped to 16% despite the current rains falling throughout the country, the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has said. Last month, the water levels in the dam that p...Published: 17 Dec 2015 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kariba dam water levels keep falling
Zesa Holdings might reduce further the power generation at Kariba Power Station as the current water levels at the lake keep falling. ZESA and its Zambian equivalent, Zambia Electricity Supply...Published: 23 Oct 2015 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe heading towards Stone Age era owing to poor planning
MDC Organising Secretary Abednicho Bhebhe has lamented that Zimbabwe as a country is walking on thin wire where one mishap will define whether people go to the Stone Age era or be at a level of ...Published: 17 Sep 2015 at 07:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mtshabezi Pipeline not yet fully operational, generators not powerful enough
Fact sheet - BCC pumping just over 10% of projected capacity- Govt blames it on use of generators- Construction of powerline 90% complete...Published: 23 Feb 2013 at 20:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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