Mnangagwa commissions new Zesa vehicles and transformers

Zimbabwe’s power utility Zesa is owed more than $1 billion in unpaid bills, affecting electricity distribution in the country, President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday

Speaking at the commissioning of 26 vehicles and 117 transformers for the power utility, Mnangagwa also blamed vandalism of power infrastructure for the deteriorating power situation in the country.

Zesa intensified load-shedding since the beginning of June and in a circular to customers, blamed technical faults at Hwange and depressed supply from South Africa for the outages.

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