Ongoing power outages in Zimbabwe could persist until late November as ZESA blames technical faults at Hwange Power Station where a new 300 MW power generator is also undergoing 30-day maintenance.
Zimbabwe will not experience frequent power outages at least for the time being after power company, ZESA Holdings reportedly secured imports and increased its generating capacity.
Rejoice Ngwenya, a free market activist has carried out an informal market research on how Zimbabweans perceive brands in their country, and came up with the top 10 worst brand (performers), in no order of ‘worseness’.
Zimbabwe has signed a five-year deal to import 100 megawatts per day of electricity from Zambia after paying $6.4 million in advance to Zesco, Zambia's energy supplier.
Energy utility, Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA), has been allowed to invoice exporters in foreign currency, which should lead the parastatal to settle its obligations in foreign currency.
In a statement yesterday, Zesa said the Zambezi River Authority was resuming the rehabilitation works and the authority had asked the two power stations (Kariba North and Kariba South) to reduce output by taking some of their generation units out of service each day.
Florence Taruvinga is the new president of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions after beating incumbent Peter Mutasa at a congress on Friday to become the first woman to hold the position.
HWANGE – Struggling state-owned power utility ZESA announced on Sunday that it would immediately implement scheduled power cuts lasting up to eight hours daily due to depressed generation at Kariba and Hwange.
