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Private players to enter Zimbabwe's electricity retail market

Zimbabwe is set to open its electricity sector to private players who will be allowed to generate, transmit, and distribute power directly to households, especially in newly developed suburbs. This strategic shift aims to complement the ef…

Published: 16 May 2025 at 09:58hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe sets ambitious electrification and clean cooking targets

The Zimbabwean government has announced a bold plan to electrify over three million households and achieve 70% clean cooking access by 2030. This ambitious target was unveiled following today's Cabinet meeting, where officials addressed th…

Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:32hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter

Why should citizens pay for ZESA's failure to provide reliable power

If you give us electricity we will not need generators. In a world where governments are often scrutinised for their decisions and policies, the Zimbabwean Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has raised eyebrows with …

Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 11:29hrs | 424 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

Zimbabwe to reform electricity pricing

Zimbabwe is set to introduce regulatory changes in its electricity pricing system to allow producers to sell power at competitive rates, ensuring they can recoup costs and sustain operations.Energy and Power Development Minister July Moyo …

Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 09:24hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter

Electricity availability in Zimbabwe is now worse than Rhodesia in the 1940s

The irony of Zimbabwe having worse electricity availability today than Rhodesia in the 1940s is a stark and painful reminder of how far we have regressed as a nation. For Zimbabweans who have endured nearly 45 years of independence, this r…

Published: 06 Jan 2025 at 12:10hrs | 1140 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Hichilema blamed for Zambia's recent electricity blackout

Former Zambian President Edgar Lungu has criticized his successor, President Hakainde Hichilema, for a nationwide power blackout on Sunday that left hospitals and other critical institutions without electricity.The power outage, which stru…

Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 20:12hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe set to add 600MW to ease power cuts

Zimbabwe is poised to gain an additional 600 megawatts (MW) of electricity upon the completion of the Hwange Deka Upgradation Project, a major energy infrastructure development. The project, valued at US$48.1 million, is a collaborative ef…

Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 09:02hrs | 655 | by Staff reporter

2 500 Cowdray Park houses connect to Zesa

FOR almost two decades, Mrs Juliet Sithole was not able to use a fridge while her children were somewhat divorced from watching cartoons on television and playing video games. They would use their phones with measured discipline to avoid t…

Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

ZESA for something at Ngundu BC

Dear Editor Ngundu residents have seen it all in the hands of ZESA Rutenga. The residents have suffered enough and have now nowhere to run to. They came and cut off electric power cables that bring power to Ngundu for the reasons best know…

Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 22:59hrs | | by Ngundu Resident

When electricity is a visitor, not a resident

Electricity where are you? Shall I say Zesa or who? Chinehasha Business Centre and the learning institutions adjacent to the Centre have been without power for about four months now. Indeed faults do occur especially during the rain season…

Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 18:12hrs | 2 | by Tincuts Chinehasha

Zesa where is your conscience, heart and professionalism

My 'beef' with Zesa is denying me the chance to watch my favourite local drama 'Tunga'. I am an avid follower of that local series but alas, I have now lost track, only fading memories still lingers. Why, why Zesa? My favourite characters,…

Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 20:32hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa

Never promise anyone something you are never sure to fulfil

The residents of Msasa Park in Harare have not yet experienced the changes in  load-shedding from Phase 2 to Phase 1. People are still being subjected to seventeen hours of power outages and darkness. Indeed there is a power crisis bu…

Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 08:45hrs | 2 | by Thomas Murisa

REA targets to electrify 60% of rural areas

Government is forging ahead with its thrust to modernise rural areas, with the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) pledging to bring access to electricity to 60 percent of the rural populace in line with President Mnangagwa's vision to make…

Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Pre-paid electricity meters too expensive

EDITOR,While the move to have residents purchase their own household electricity pre-paid meters is a noble idea, there still lingers many questions regarding their accessibility.We acknowledge that Zesa Holdings has been hamstrung by resi…

Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 18:23hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Pamire

Zesa is killing us

Editor, Zesa's intention to hike tariff is not fair to us poor electric consumers. The parastatal is infested by mismanagement coupled with corruption. We have read about these shenanigans. Surely, these corrupt dealings done by high up.. …

Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 16:29hrs | | by Concerned Citizen

6 weeks not electricity

Editor, Hide my id please. I'm a Happy hill  resident in Harare that is the medium density suburb to the left side near Kuwadzana flyover. We lost power on the 13th of March 2017 that will simply translate to just over a month and 2 w…

Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 17:50hrs | | by Concerned Happy Hill resident

Solar energy solving our long standing problems in Harare

The effort by the Harare City Council to establish solar powered street lights is a good development which is mitigating the shortage of electricity in the country. The status of the capital city was reduced alarmingly owing to darkness wh…

Published: 21 Jul 2016 at 13:48hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri

Light at the end of the tunnel

Much ado over Africa's power sector Apapa is the industrial hub of Lagos, Nigeria's bustling commercial capital that's home to some 17 million people.  Daily, the air in Apapa reverberates with the humming sound of electricity generat…

Published: 03 May 2014 at 07:41hrs | 7 | by Kingsley Ighobor

'Microbial battery' to produce electricity from sewage water

WASHINGTON - U.S. researchers said Monday they have created a "microbial battery" that harnesses a special type of microbe to produce electricity by digesting the plant and animal waste dissolved in sewage.The invention, published in the j…

Published: 17 Sep 2013 at 03:16hrs | 20 | by Staff Reporter

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