{"id":5800,"date":"2019-10-08T08:40:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T05:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5800"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:35","slug":"mnangagwa-orders-clean-up-at-zesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/08\/mnangagwa-orders-clean-up-at-zesa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mnangagwa Orders Clean-Up At Zesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By The New Zimbabwe<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) will be\ncompletely restructured in order to deal with graft that is crippling the power\nutility, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his 2019 State of the Nation Address (SONA) Tuesday,\nMnangagwa added government reviewed electricity tariffs as a relief to the\npower cuts which citizens are currently facing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Water levels at Kariba Dam, the country&#8217;s biggest hydro-power\nsupplier have dwindled this year following a drought and this resulted in power\noutages across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Due to the impact of climate change, our economy is\nfacing severe electricity supply challenges, owing to reduced hydro-power\ngeneration capacity at Kariba Dam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;To address this state of affairs, we have now\nrestored the cost reflective electricity tariff structure and increased power\nimports to provide the much needed short term relief. More innovative\ninitiatives will be implemented to ensure stability in the sector,&#8221;\nMnangagwa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Zanu PF leader further warned that the power utility\nwill eventually be destroyed if corruption within the company is not dealt\nwith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, Justice Minister Ziyambi revealed\nMnangagwa was gravely shocked by the level of graft at Zesa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over 15 Zesa senior managers including former chief\nexecutive officer, Joshua Chifamba were last year fired on corruption\nallegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Zesa will be restructured, to enhance efficiency. I\nurge all of us to protect power installations in our areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Initiatives must be developed at community level to\nbring to end criminal activities which destroy these vital installations,&#8221;\nsaid the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her latest audit report, Mildred Chiri unearthed rot\nat the power supply authority which a decade ago paid over US$4.9 million for\ntwo sets of transformers which were never delivered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company&#8217;s then-executive board splashed money on top-of-the-range cars while paying no attention to the debt owed to South Africa&#8217;s power company, Eskom which reportedly amounted to US$33 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, electricity shortages continue with industry\nand domestic consumers having to endure up to 18 hours of load shedding. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newzimbabwe.com\/mnangagwa-orders-clean-up-at-zesa\/\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The New Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) will be completely restructured in order to deal with graft that is crippling the power utility, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}