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Vendors

Kudzai Gaveni, Online Writer

THE Bulawayo City Council is battling issues that affect the health of residents.

According to the latest council report, Illegal vending and sewer bursts presented the greatest challenge to public health.

“The health of the residents was a cause for concern. At the moment, the City was very dirty with a lot of litter. Some of the contributing factors were as follows:- (a) Illegal vending – This was now a big challenge that needed to be dealt with amicably. The best approach to this challenge was stakeholder engagements and finding alternative sites to decongest the CBD. (b) Sewer bursts/overflows – There were a lot of sewer bursts and overflows in residential areas pausing health challenges,” read the report.

Councilors noted that some of the sewer was discharged into rivers and this was unacceptable.

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David Coltart

Kudzai Gaveni, online writer

Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart has asked councillors to declare their assets as they assume office, to combat corruption.

The move may make lifestyle audits possible and expose those who may acquire wealth unprocedurally, while in office.

The latest council report reads: “The Mayor called on Councillors to declare their assets as per requirements of public office and the previous Council resolution on the matter. The declaration of assets was also a way of reducing corruption. Performance contracts would be drawn up for Councillors as well. All this would be done in line with the City’s set vision.”

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Harare lawyer Tapiwanashe Mukandi has taken his fight to the Constitutional Court, challenging the dismissal of his High Court application that sought the legalization and cultivation of cannabis, commonly known as mbanje, in Zimbabwe. In July of this year, Mukandi filed an application contesting laws that criminalize the possession, consumption, and cultivation of cannabis in […]

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Source: Hwange Power Station’s Unit 7 Back Online Tuesday, Unit 8 To Be Taken Off For Maintenance

The Minister of Energy and Power Development, Edgar Moyo has said load shedding is set to ease in the coming days with Hwange Power Station’s Unit 7 expected to resume power generation this week.

In an interview with The Sunday News on Saturday, Moyo said the reduction of demand due to the closure of industries and schools for the festive season will also result in reduced load shedding.

Unit 7 tripped two weeks before it was due for Class C maintenance resulting in longer power cuts.

In an effort to reduce the time-out, the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) had to combine the inspection and repair works of the actual displacement unit with the Class C maintenance which is set to be completed on Tuesday, 28 November.

Minister Moyo also revealed that Unit 8 would be taken off as it was also due for Class C maintenance. He said:

Unit 7 will be synchronised this week by Tuesday or Wednesday following the completion of maintenance works.

After a few days, Unit 8 will be taken off the grid for similar maintenance works.

However, we expect to witness reduced demand for electricity as most industries and schools close for the annual holidays.

As such we want to leverage this to maintain this unit but overall, it should translate to eased load shedding.

Actually, one of the units carrying about 80 megawatts came through, another one will be coming through in a day or two’s time with 120MW.

Speaking to ZTN Prime, recently, Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) Board Chairperson David Madzikanda revealed that the power utility ZESA Holdings was financially constrained to import electricity from neighbouring countries. He said:

Generation at Kariba is very much depleted largely because of water inflows. Secondly, we have not been able to import as much as we should be, because if we were importing, we would be filling in the gap.

The other reason is that the old power stations which are which are stations in Harare, Bulawayo and Munyati are currently not running. We are almost at the stage of shutting them down.

The other problem has obviously been to do with the fact that Unit 7 (at Hwange Power Station). For those reasons, we have shortages of power.

Zimbabwe requires 1 850 megawatts per day and on Friday the country was generating 1 285 megawatts, with 41 megawatts coming from independent power producers (IPPs), while Kariba and Hwange were producing 570 megawatts and 674 megawatts respectively.

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Source: President Mnangagwa urges Zimbabwe soldiers to remain loyal to country – Trending News

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