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ZETDC official in court over forged tender documents
A senior official at the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has appeared in court alongside his son on allegations of forging company documents to secure a lucrative te...Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 10:17hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Harare Mayor announces smart water meter rollout
Mayor Jacob Mafume has confirmed that Harare's smart water meter project is underway, with installation expected to be completed by the end of the year despite strong opposition from resident groups....Published: 07 Aug 2025 at 08:51hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's deteriorating roads and malfunctioning traffic lights
Bulawayo city councillors have expressed deep concern over the worsening state of roads and malfunctioning traffic lights, warning that the deteriorating infrastructure poses serious risks to motorist...Published: 06 Aug 2025 at 14:31hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and Zambia combine efforts to solve their power woes
Zimbabwe and Zambia are combining efforts to deal with their electricity crises, which have seen power cuts of up to 21 hours per day.With no load shedding for eight months, Eskom has asked So...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 07:09hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree gives residents water meter ultimatum
PLUMTREE Town Council has given pre-paid water users in the border town three weeks to revert to post-paid meters after some residents went for three years without paying for water.A number of...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's dormant IPP licences to be revoked
Licences of independent power producers (IPPs) who have failed to provide electricity under their agreement with the State are being re-examined by the regulator and could be revoked, legislators have...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Prepaid Zesa for all next year
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has procured 100 000 prepaid meters as it targets to complete the placement of all its customers under this system by June next y...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Faulty Zesa meters headache for residents
SOME Bulawayo residents are living in houses without electricity due to defective prepaid electricity meters that Zesa installed at their homes.The power utility is failing to replace the faul...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:33hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Forex shortage hampers Zimbabwe power imports
ZESA says it has not started planned power imports from the region to plug a yawning domestic supply gap due to shortage of foreign currency required to pay suppliers.Executive chairman Dr Syd...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Soda Zhemu warns power outages will persist until ZESA charges 'viable tariff'
Energy minister Soda Zhemu says power cuts will persist because Zimbabwe's electricity is too cheap, a situation he says is pushing "unproductive" demand by domestic customers.Zhemu is support...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 20:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean consumers feel the pinch as cost of living shoots up
THE wave of price hikes resulting from the weakening of the Zimbabwe dollar spells doom for beleaguered citizens in the New Year, with no reprieve in sight to the country's deepening economic crisis....Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 16:11hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zesa hints at more power cuts
Zesa HOLDINGS has warned of more power cuts over the next two weeks to allow the resumption of maintenance work on Kariba Dam.These had been shelved from December 16 during the festive season ...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tariff hikes reflect erosion of Zimdollar, raise inflation fears
TARIFF hikes on electricity and toll gates among others have piled more misery on consumers who are already battered by the tough economic environment and expose the vulnerability of the local currenc...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:06hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zesa targets to expand grid, maintenance
The 12,3 percent increase in electricity tariffs this month will allow Zesa to pay for more imports, connect many new houses to the grid, executive chairman Dr Sydney Gata has said.Energy regu...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:53hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zesa hikes electricity tariffs by 12,3%
Zesa has pushed up electricity tariffs by 12,3 percent with effect from New Year's Day which will see families on pre-paid meters buying 200 units a month now paying $1 265,11 including the six percen...Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 13:55hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Farai Jere acquitted
Harare regional magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa has discharged and acquitted Helcraw Electrical businessman Farai Jere, who was facing fraud charges involving the procurement of smart meters valued at US...Published: 16 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane residents reject prepaid meters
RESIDENTS of Umzingwane's sprawling Habane Township in Matabeleland South have rejected plans by the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) to install pre-paid water meters in the area.Zinw...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
VIPs bleed Zesa, parly to probe
PARLIAMENT will next month launch a full-scale investigation into operations at the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) with the aim of recovering millions of dollars, which were, according t...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's pro-sanctions MPs are terrorists'
ZANU-PF and opposition MPs yesterday made a contest of raising points of privileges to counter each other in the House regarding the poor state of the economy, with the ruling party chief whip Pupurai...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 14:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Time for serious legal action against ZESA
As the constant, but greatly debilitating, power outages continue to torment the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans - who are already at the mercy of an unprecedented economic turmoil in 10 years - with se...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 10:47hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'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 | 1 | by New Ziana.
Outrage over Zesa 'load-shedding'
ROLLING power cuts have intensified across the country despite repeated denials by Zesa that it has re-introduced load-shedding.Zesa last week issued a statement where it distanced itself from...Published: 12 May 2019 at 23:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zesa prepaid electricity system down
ZESA Holdings says it is experiencing technical challenges on its prepaid system countrywide.Scores of people throughout the country experienced difficulties in buying electricity tokens throu...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans plot to boycott over-pricing shops
BEITBRIDGE residents have threatened to boycott shops and service providers they feel are unfairly overpricing goods and services.The residents, who have formed social media groups, also want ...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe kills commerce and lights, by killing the internet
WHEN the Zimbabwean government ordered internet service providers to shutter parts of the web in an effort to curb anti-government protests, it also plunged homes into darkness because people can't pa...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare to roll out pre-paid water meters in January
HARARE City Council says it will roll out pre-paid water meters in January next year, with an initial target of 100 000 households, but this will be on voluntary basis after protestations by residents...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa declares war on infrastructure vandalism
POWER utility company Zesa has embarked on a door to door inspection to check residents who are tampering and by-passing electricity pre-paid meters.The company said it was worried over the ri...Published: 08 Jul 2018 at 13:08hrs | 1 | 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 ac...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 18:23hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Pamire
Zesa seeks to recover US$1bn
ZIMBABWE'S power utility, Zesa, is ratcheting up pressure on its defaulting consumers to cough up more than US$1 billion in unpaid bills by, among other measures, getting into stop order arrangements ...Published: 18 May 2018 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa warns of massive power cuts
THE country's power utility, Zesa, has warned that it could start rolling out power cuts three years after stopping them due to supply constraints, as government remains reluctant to approve a tariff ...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Residents should heed President Mnangagwa's call
Both commercial and domestic users of electricity owing the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) large amounts of money should heed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's call to pay for electricity b...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 12:11hrs | | by Chido Chikuni
Zesa to install 30 000 pre-paid meters countrywide
Zesa is working towards installing 30 000 pre-paid electricity meters countrywide by April as part the Ministry of Energy and Power Development's 100 day programme.Foreign currency shortages h...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Heads to roll at Zesa
The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) was prejudiced of more than $7 million and not the $5 million initially reported through suspected irregular payments to businessman Mr Wicknell Chivayo, legislators h...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo deals: Heads to roll at Zesa
The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) was prejudiced of more than $7 million - and not the $5 million initially reported - through suspected irregular payments to businessman Mr Wicknell Chivayo, legislato...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe sucked into a Zesa dispute
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe has been sucked into a raging dispute between workers and management at Zesa Holdings with a demonstration set for December 20 over the issue, NewsDay reported.I...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 05:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Aid agencies and civic organisations promoting government irresponsibility and community dependency
It was with great relief reading in Britain's Daily Express how calls by that country's taxpayers to ban aid to the so-called 'Third World' were growing louder - as these had had no positive impact....Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Woman jailed for bridging electricity
A woman from Sunnyside in Bulawayo has been slapped with wholly suspended three months jail term for bridging electricity at her home.Nyarai Bridget Mutete (43) pleaded guilty to the charge wh...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 06:39hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
ZimAsset has surpassed 2 million jobs, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, last week we launched two key projects that fall under the infrastructural development cluster of our Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic...Published: 26 May 2017 at 07:00hrs | 4 | by CZ
Swift action needed to bail ZESA
If there is anything that the people of Zimbabwe would like to quickly forget, worse still to experience once more, is the dark period in the recent past that saw load-shedding stretching for 18 hours...Published: 24 May 2017 at 15:06hrs | | by John Sigauke
Bulawayo Power Station refurbishment to start
WORK on the refurbishment of the Bulawayo Power Station will start soon after power generation company Zesa secured $90 million from India for the project, an official has said.Zesa spokespers...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Analysis of the Mid-term fiscal policy review statement
Statement by the MDC Shadow Minister of Finance, Dr Tapiwa MashakadaThe Mid-Year Fiscal Policy Review Statement is a bankrupt statement which is anchored on a bankrupt Zimasset policy do...Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 11:31hrs | 1 | by Dr Tapiwa Mashakada
No going back on prepaid water meters, says council
Harare City Council is forging ahead with plans to install prepaid water meters despite protests from residents.Last week residents' associations petitioned council over the issue, which they ...Published: 02 Jun 2016 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Innocent Ruwende
ZETD installs over 550K pre-paid meters in Harare's residential areas since 2012
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) commenced the pre-paid meter project in 2012 and has installed about 563 000 pre-paid meters in residential and commercial buildi...Published: 29 May 2016 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zesa must put its house in order before hiking tariffs
One day, yours truly made a sacrifice and doled out the last dollar in the pocket to a poor beggar in the street. End of day, he bumped into the same freeloading beggar at a drinking hole imbibing and...Published: 18 May 2016 at 13:45hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
New payment system for Harare water
The Harare City Council will start installing its much-debated prepaid water meters on May 16, 2016 with the initial phase targeting 2 000 households and business units. Citywide rollout will come in ...Published: 24 Apr 2016 at 16:52hrs | 1 | by Debra Matabvu
BCC bows down to pressure on prepaid meters
THE Bulawayo City Council has bowed to pressure from residents in Cowdray Park's Garikayi/Hlalani Kuhle areas who have been demonstrating against the installation of pre-paid water meters. Civ...Published: 08 Dec 2015 at 04:15hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Water shortages could scuttle BCC pre-paid meter project
Bulawayo City Council has said the low expected rains might present challenges in implementing the controversial pre-paid water meter project in the city.According to the Environmental Managem...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 13:42hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Grace orders Zesa to stop installing pre-paid meters
THE First Lady, Grace Mugabe has ordered ZESA Holdings to stop the installation of pre-paid electricity meters on farms.Grace says the move was ill-informed and counter-productive, given its i...Published: 16 Oct 2015 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC blast Kasukuwere over pre-paid meters remarks
Matabeleland South MDC Chairman Pilate Ndebele has accused Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere over his remarks that Gwanda town must endorse the installation of the pre-paid water meters....Published: 14 Oct 2015 at 07:02hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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