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Zesa to add 120MW to grid
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority plans to expeditiously refurbish Hwange Power Station's Unit 3 to augment local power generation by 120MW, while negotiations with regional suppliers fo...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:35hrs | 1525 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe journalist, one of the first black female journos to report on the genocide in Rwanda
Long-time Southern African regional correspondent Susan Njanji from Zimbabwe was one of very few black African female journalists to cover the genocide in Rwanda. Here she reflects on the challenges t...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:21hrs | 1401 | by Staff reporter
Strategic planning, management needed in our electrical energy sector
Just after the Second World War, political leaders in what was Southern Rhodesia started to think about how they would meet the needs of the country for electrical energy.After that, the debat...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:19hrs | 161 | by Eddie Cross
Mthuli Ncube releases $5million to keep Zimbabwe lights on
THE Government will this week release US$5 million for the refurbishment of a power generating unit at Hwange Power Station (HPS) as part of contingency measures to ease the current crippling power sh...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:15hrs | 2529 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe on autopilot, says Mliswa
Norton MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) recently tore into President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, claiming the country was now on autopilot and blundering into the unknown.Addressing memb...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1426 | by Staff reporter
Zesa engages Eskom over debt
Power utility Zesa Holdings will this week head to South Africa for crunch talks with fellow electricity supplier, Eskom, over a payment plan relating to a US$33 million debt for power imports. ...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 07:31hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
Dialogue is the way to go
Five hundred more buses for ZUPCO. More comfortable, far cheaper and what's more, bigger is always better. Dialogue is always progressive, good and advisable. Confrontation is counterproductiv...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 21:05hrs | 850 | by Tondo Murisa
Zesa extends load shedding hours following technical fault at Hwange power station
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) on Saturday announced a Stage 2 load shedding schedule where consumers will suffer extended power outages following a technical f...Published: 26 May 2019 at 14:27hrs | 2198 | by Xinhua
Critical sectors to be spared from power cuts
State power utility, Zesa, has ring fenced wheat farmers and key players in productive sectors such as coal miners to cushion them from power cuts to avoid crippling critical sectors of the economy....Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:03hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa delays visit to graves in Mozambique
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has advised President Mnangagwa to delay his visit to graves of 158 Zimbabweans who were swept away by Cyclone Idai floods across the border because the area is still...Published: 02 May 2019 at 06:38hrs | 2981 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to meet chiefs in Cyclone Idai-hit areas
President Mnangagwa is tomorrow expected to meet with traditional leaders from areas ravaged by Cyclone Idai to discuss efforts to rebuild the affected districts. This was said by the Minister...Published: 01 May 2019 at 08:42hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Worsening period poverty in Zimbabwe calls for urgent action
For the first time since 2009, Zimbabwe's economy is projected to slide into a recession this year, with real GDP going down to -5.2%, the lowest economic growth rate in Africa this year. Inflation is...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 10:58hrs | 2817 | by Theresa Nyava
European Union pours €4.5millon to Zimbabwe
The Head of Delegation of the European Union to ZimbabweTimo Olkkonen on Thursday met President Emmerson Mnangagwa to announce a further €4.5 million relief fund form the European Union toward...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 15:39hrs | 4893 | by Mandla Ndlovu
China takes over Chimanimani roads rehab
THE Chinese government has offered to rehabilitate all roads washed away by Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani at its own cost and has already contracted six private Asian companies to carry out the project....Published: 24 Apr 2019 at 07:34hrs | 1810 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai victims resist tent homes
PLANS by government to settle displaced victims of Cyclone Idai in tents, while authorities look for long-term accommodation solutions, are facing resistance from some families. The families say they ...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:08hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai buried people with their belongings
WHEN we arrived in cyclone hit Chimanimani a week after the monstrous Idai, what we could only see at most places are stone boulders that had buried wholesome villages underneath and someone coming fr...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 15:45hrs | 4820 | by Staff reporter
Nust to identify deceased Cyclone victims
GOVERNMENT says it is working with the National University of Science and Technology (Nust)'s Applied Testing Genetic Centre (AGTC) to identify deceased victims of Cyclone Idai which ravaged the count...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 12:33hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Blocking aid to flood-hit Iran 'displays US malevolence'
Iran's Defence Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says the United States' attempts to block international humanitarian aid from entering flood-hit Iran lays bare America's malevolence. Add...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:32hrs | 243 | by Press TV
Cop hires kombi to ferry stolen Cyclone Idai donations
A police officer has been arrested for alleged wholesale looting of aid valued at tens of thousands United States Dollars earmarked for victims of Cyclone Idai in Chipinge amid reports of rampant misa...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 18:39hrs | 5161 | by Methusi Ncube
75-year-old retraces colonial days, cycled from Buhera to Gweru in search of work
BORN in 1944, Naison Dhakwa Muganyi still looks fit and his memory is as sharp, telling jokes captured mainly from his early days as a youth working at BATA Shoe Company in Gweru, then Gwelo. ...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 16:20hrs | 1870 | by Maxwell Sibanda
Roadmap to Mthwakazi
The current wave of Mthwakazi restoration and self-determination cannot be ignored by any right-minded individual, community, region or society in general. This is a defining moment. It either sends a...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:39hrs | 1191 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Mnangagwa comes under criticism for mocking the RTGS$s
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has come under criticism for seemingly mocking the country's currency, real time gross settlement dollars (RTGS$) at an event where he said the Cyclone Idai-induced floods...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 16:33hrs | 11124 | by Staff reporter
Alleluia Ministries International gathers R1 Million for Mozambique cyclone survivors
Hundreds of rural communities were plunged into food crisis after Cyclone Idai tore through central Mozambique on March 14, humanitarian workers say. The Mozambique government estimates that more than...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 22:27hrs | 739 | by Ray Mwareya
Mozambique buries Zimbabwe cyclone victims
MORE than 80 Zimbabweans swept by floods into Mozambique have been buried in the neighbouring country.They are among hundreds killed by the storms ravaging the two countries and Malawi in rece...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1819 | by Staff reporter
Jet-A1 fuel shortages threaten to ground Cyclone Idai air relief efforts
SERIOUS shortages of Jet-A1 fuel are hampering relief efforts in Chimanimani and Chipinge districts where at least 270 000 survivors of the deadly Cyclone Idai have been confirmed as in urgent need of...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 07:59hrs | 190 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe military's humane face
HIS camouflage uniform discharges a heavy stench of sweat, while his dusty face, dirty hands and dry mouth betray what he has been through lately. Yet he continues to toil in the sun, offloading packs...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 22:13hrs | 1951 | by Staff reporter
There is more to Cyclone Idai, says villagers
Some superstitious villagers in Chimanimani believe that there was more to the floods than just Cyclone Idai.Hundreds of people have been reported dead, while thousands were displaced mainly i...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:47hrs | 1604 | by Staff reporter
SA sniffer dogs comb Chimanimani
Rescue operations continued yesterday at Ngangu township, Chimanimani with sniffer dogs from South Africa identifying about 10 sites by midday where bodies are believed to be still buried in rubble fo...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:41hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers roll out free legal advice to cyclone victims
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has offered to give free legal advice to victims of Cyclone Idai seeking to replace documents lost during floods which wreaked havoc in Chipinge, Chimanimani district...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:14hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Injiva bashes man for bedding his wife
A CHIPINGE man, who survived the Cyclone Idai-induced floods, is battling for life in Chiredzi District Hospital after he was brutally assaulted by a South Africa-based man who accused him of bedding ...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 07:26hrs | 2142 | by Staff reporter
AFM Chimanimani loses 25% membership to floods
The Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM)'s Rusitu West Parish in Chimanimani says it lost 72 members, representing about a quarter of its congregation, in the floods induced by Cyclone Idai, whil...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1326 | by Staff reporter
'Cyclone Idai killed over 560 people, 500 still missing in Rusitu Valley'
THE International Organisation of Migration (IOM) in Zimbabwe has pegged the Cyclone Idai-induced floods death toll at over 560, with 261 deaths recorded in Manicaland and about 300 bodies discovered ...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 07:20hrs | 893 | by Staff reporter
Cholera complicates Cyclone Idai emergency in Mozambique
The first cases of cholera have been reported in the cyclone-ravaged Mozambican city of Beira, complicating an already massive and complex emergency in the southern African country. The announ...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 23:47hrs | 176 | by Reuters.
Zanu-PF trucks seen picking up Cyclone Idai donations
Zimbabweans reacted with anger on social media after a video and pictures emerged showing Zanu-PF vehicles and supporters handling aid donated to survivors of Cyclone Idai in Chimanimani, Manicaland P...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:45hrs | 3238 | by ZimLive
A disaster in the midst of polarisation and Lessons learnt from Cyclone Idai
The days 15 and 16 March 2019 will ever be etched in the memory of many of us Zimbabweans Sadly, so as we will relive the horror caused by an unusual stranger called Cyclone Idai. Cyclones are...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | 313 | by Johanne and Kowanai Mhlanga
Stench leads to recovery of Cyclone Idai victims bodies
The rising stench of decomposing Cyclone Idai victims buried under debris at Ngangu in Chimanimani is now helping the recovery of bodies with residents saying sniffer dogs will quicken the pace of rec...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:00hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
Cylone Idai unified Zimbabweans, claims govt
GOVERNMENT has said the Cyclone Idai-induced floods that ravaged the eastern part of the country nearly a forthnight ago has unified politically-polarised Zimbabweans as they seek to assist survivors....Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:59hrs | 63 | by Staff reporter
Confusion over 'fresh floods'
CONFUSION is reigning supreme in government amid conflicting signals over fresh flooding fears in Burma Valley, Manicaland.Following reports that Manyera Dam wall in Burma Valley had wea...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 14:07hrs | 1140 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa to build house for Cyclone Idai heroine
TELECOMMUNICATIONS magnate and billionaire, Mr Strive Masiyiwa has pledged to build a house and pay a $1000 lifetime monthly allowance to an elderly woman from Harare who walked from Mbare to Highland...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 22:22hrs | 1988 | by ZimLive
Masawara companies come together to help Cyclone Idai victims
Companies in the Masawara Group, which is comprised of the Zimnat Insurance Group, Cresta Group of Hotels, Minerva, Botswana Insurance company and Grand Re-Insurance , have come together to help...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 21:32hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Government allays Burma Valley flooding fears
GOVERNMENT has allayed flooding fears in Burma Valley following social media reports that Manyera Dam wall had weakened and could give in to the high volume of water. The Minister of Local Gov...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 06:58hrs | 562 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa leads nation in mourning
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday joined the nation in mourning people who perished during Cyclone Idai and expressed gratitude to various countries, embassies, local companies, organisations, churches an...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 06:55hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Volcano, floods scare in Bikita and Vumba
GOVERNMENT has moved to allay fears of a volcano eruption in Bikita, Masvingo and a dam wall collapse following earlier fears of the two disasters waiting to strike.There were social media rep...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 06:53hrs | 1182 | by newzimbabwe
Understanding Cyclone Idai, associated geomorphological processes
Global pressure patterns are a function of spatial temperature variations. We use weather maps to show spatial pressure variations and through analysing atmospheric variables such as wind speed, wind ...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 06:50hrs | 664 | by Energy Mutodi
Potraz brings toll free platforms to rural folk
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has extended the toll-free platform number 112 to people who want to report all emergencies, like accidents, floods or sickn...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:13hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Fears of cholera outbreak in Manicaland
Chances are people will drink water flowing in rivers due to shortage of potable water in cyclone ravaged ChimanimaniThere are fears of a possible cholera outbreak in cyclone-hit areas, with r...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:07hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
More Cyclone Idai bodies retrieved
Many bodies of victims of Cyclone Idai have been retrieved from mudslides and other debris of collapsed buildings in Chimanimani, but are yet to be identified, government said yesterday.Local ...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 13:58hrs | 1987 | by Staff reporter
MDC hammers Mnangagwa over 'infantile and embarrassing love of flying'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared two days of mourning the victims of Cyclone Idai - and then left on a trip to Angola, his 28th foreign visit in the 15 months since he assumed power.The M...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:34hrs | 644 | by ZimLive
39 school kids feared dead
NEARLY 40 students from Dzingire Primary School in Chimanimani are feared dead as the country continue to count the cost of the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai.This comes as the death toll from...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:25hrs | 3738 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Idai deaths shoot to 259 in Zimbabwe
ABOUT 259 people have so far been confirmed dead and 217 unaccounted for, while over 16 000 households have been displaced by Cyclone Idai-induced floods that hit the eastern part of the country last ...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:53hrs | 6250 | by Staff reporter
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