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Zanu PF youths ,unhappy over Saviour Kasukuwere stands dispute threaten to join MDC-T anti-corruption protest on Wednesday.

Posted on September 16, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

DISGRUNTLED Zanu PF youths who are unhappy over the manner in which Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has handled the stands dispute at Ushewokunze Housing Co-operative in Harare, have threatened to join their MDC-T counterparts in a planned anti-corruption demonstration scheduled for Wednesday next week. “We are fed up with this corruption, Zanu PF leaders have become land barons. They go around the country claiming that the land belongs to youths, yet they are feeding…

Zimbabwe Faces crippling power cuts, because government rejected Zesa’s bid to hike tarriffs by 49%

Posted on July 31, 2016July 31, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Zimbabweans should brace for sustained crippling power cuts after energy regulator, Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) rejected tariff hike application from Zesa. Zesa had applied to increase power costs to 14,69 cents per kilowatt hour from 9,86 cents, an increase of 49 percent. The controversial bid hike which drew condemnation from business sector and individual consumers was rejected on July 14. “After duly considering the tariff application the written and oral submissions from various consumer…

‘Zimbabwe’s Multimillion Dollar Power Contracts Awarded To Drug Dealers, Corrupt, Bankrupt Companies’

Posted on May 4, 2016May 4, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

ZIMBABWE has put $600 million worth of the country’s critical power projects in the hands of a middleman accused of drug trafficking, and awarded big contracts to companies that are bankrupt or facing corruption charges, it can be revealed today. With the country desperate to rebuild its decaying energy infrastructure, dozens of foreign companies have tendered for lucrative Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) contracts to refurbish existing power stations and build new plants. The bulk of…

Mahofa& Madiro Hospitalisation Raise Poisoning Fears At Zanu PF Conference

Posted on December 28, 2015December 28, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

ZANU PF has been rocked by fears of plots to poison officials in rival factions, as the succession conundrum within the ruling party turns nastier, NewsDay has learnt While officials denied any knowledge of such plots, reports claimed that Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister Shuvai Mahofa and former Zanu PF Manicaland provincial chairperson Mike Madiro were hospitalised on suspicion of food poisoning at the recently-ended party’s 15th national people’s conference held in Victoria Falls. Zanu PF…

Zimbabwe’s Military Panicks Over Economic Implosion

Posted on October 31, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

THE military — the pillar of President Robert Mugabe’s rule — is reportedly panicking over the country’s dipping economy, which it fears is now the biggest threat to the ruling party’s continued grip on power as Zimbabwe sinks deeper into recession amid company closures and retrenchments. In separate private briefings this week, army chiefs told Zimbabwe Independent that the power cuts, which have seen most suburbs in Zimbabwe going for more than 18 hours…

Zimbabwe’s Defacto President ‘Grace Mugabe’ Eyeing Life Beyond Mugabe

Posted on October 18, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Grace Mugabe, arguably now the Defacto president of Zimbabwe continues to flex muscle in a bid to prop up her aged husband despot President Robert Mugabe in public. She is now regularly seen holding the 91year old’s hand to steady him in public. Mugabe is obviously not the agile young man he once was decades ago, if not nigh to a century . acse proven by his memory lapse episodes in speech giving where he can either jumble…

‘Met Dpt Lied About Rainfall Hence Kariba Failure To Generate Enough Electricity’-Undenge

Posted on October 16, 2015October 16, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

‘MET DEPT LIED TO GVT ABOUT PREDICTED RAINFALL, HENCE DROP IN KARIBA DAM LEVELS AND FAILURE TO GENERATE ENOUGH ELECTRICITY’ .. ZANU pf, Energy Minister Samuel Undenge THE country’s meteorological department should not be trusted because it lied to government leading to the failure to prepare for the current power supply crisis, Energy Minister Samuel Undenge has said. Undenge told journalists Thursday that his ministry would no longer trust the met-office following the unprecedented drop…

Desperate Gvt Orders Army, Police Power Cuts, & 25 % For Big Mining Companies

Posted on October 7, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

IN a surprise move for a government which believes it is under siege from foreign enemies, a cabinet minister has ordered power cuts on army and police bases as the country struggles with a debilitating electricity supply crisis. “Security cantonments (ZNA and ZRP) shall be requested to voluntarily load shed non-critical and residential loads as army and police institutions so as to share the burden,” energy minister Samuel Undenge told Parliament Tuesday. Unable to produce…

‘Desperate time, ‘Desperate Measures!’-Electric Geysers Banned, To Save 400 Megawatts ‘

Posted on October 1, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

THE government will from next year ban the use of electric water geysers and give users five years to migrate to solar-powered water heaters in a bid to save up to 400 megawatts of electricity, energy officials said on Wednesday. The country, where six in 10 people have no access to electricity, is experiencing some of its worst power cuts, some lasting up to 24 hours, worsened by the routine maintenance at its two largest…

‘Firms Say Chinese Dishonest Business Partners And Plead With Government To Go West’

Posted on September 5, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

MUTARE: Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, Thursday, came face-to-face with reality when he was welcomed by heaps of scrap metal during his tour of the Nyakamete industrial site in the eastern border city. Once a hub of manufacturing, Nyakamete has been reduced to a scrap yard. Companies such as Mutare Board and Paper Mills which used to be a huge exporter of newsprint in the region and a major employer have now been reduced to sadza…