President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said the power crisis in Zimbabwe is making the southern African country “unattractive to investments” hence the need to find solutions “urgently”.
His remarks come after the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA), which manages the river’s water on behalf of Zambia and Zimbabwe, advised the Zimbabwe Power Company to shut down its Kariba South Hydropower Plant owing to reduced water levels.
This limited electricity generation at the plant to 300 megawatts (MW).
Writing in his weekly column in The Sunday Mail, President Mnangagwa said he convened an urgent meeting for all Government departments to tackle the emerging threat. He said:
We have to engage sister countries in our SADC region with excess power to export to us. We urgently need to plug the current deficit through more imports.
Enough resources have to be mobilised for that to happen. They will be mobilised. The cost of importing power is relatively less than a slowdown in industry, whose capacity utilisation has been rising steadily.
Or stoppages altogether, not to mention delays in new investments caused by power shortages. Such an eventuality makes us unattractive to investments, foremost foreign direct investments which are so hard to attract, and can easily choose other country destinations. I am concerned about power-related stresses which industry is currently facing. Solutions will be found urgently.
President Mnangagwa indicated that Hwange Unit 7 will be commissioned in a few weeks, while work to refurbish six existing generators at the same power station and several other thermal stations across the country is currently underway.
He added that the Government will ensure enough coal deliveries are made to all thermal power stations, as well as relook into the licensing regime to encourage independent power producers (IPPs) and new players in the renewable sector.
Zimbabwe generates a total of 1 124MW against a peak demand of 2 200 MW.
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I'm getting a premonitory sense that Independent Power Producers (IPPs) with links to the EVILutionary Party, may at some point, take over national electricity generation assets & become obscenely wealthy by charging exorbitant electricity tariffs while exporting some of the electricity.
Please recall that recently all ZETDC Boards were dissolved & it seems there are plans to merge all ZETDC subsidiaries. I'm assuming, the usual unscrupulous frontmen & runners, such as Musavadha Tagwirei, WeakSnail Chivharo, Skirt Sakupwanya & others aligned to the Political Oligarchy may be allocated national assets & charge the poor majority merciless rates for electricity supply.
Urban Dwellers will bear the brunt of vindictive politics & will probably be punished for voting the CCC by making them pay through the nose for electricity consumption.
I suppose the current psychological strategy is to starve Zimbabweans of electricity until they become desperate enough to accept any kind of solution just to put the lights back on. The dark desert will be so painful, such that Zimbabweans will clamour to return to Electrified Egypt, & endure political Pharaoh's who milk the blood of the poor for self aggrandizement.
That's how it's done in Russia. Putin's buddies operate energy & oil utilities on his behalf. Assuming it happens this way, CCC MPs cannot protest against such a move, since they received hush-money to the tune of U$ 40K just seven months before the 2023 election.
This is just one man's independent opinion.
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Hey hey hey, somebody tell mukuru avo varege kurotomoka. It is his style of governance which is unattractive. Nobody is attracted by guy who riggs and steals elections. Killing political opponents is not attractive. Looting and impoverishing citizens is not attractive, corruption is produces a stench nobody likes... there is nothing attractive in your style of governance sir..!
Ah wozell gumidge. Unozvifunga nguvai zvese izvi. Deno uchitonyora munyuzipepa ndimo munoenderana nelevel rako.
In fact the political power crisis is the cause of this miasma. Remove the Zanu pf logjam everything will get on track
Power crisis is being used to effect regime change in this country and other Southern African countries. The head of state should deploy trusted senior army personnel to oversee the immediate restoration of services. Better they intervene now than to employ military solutions on the masses when the situation gets out of hand.
Fanatics and myopic bootlickers misled ED into seeking re-election at the Zanu pf congress using pseudo democratic means instead of holding free and fair elections or he should have just handed over the contest of the party presidency to the structures. Now he is fighting saboteurs on three fronts 1. disgruntled party members, 2. real problems, 3. internal and external opposition. And none of the bootlickers have a solution to any of his problems.