ZESA to Disconnect Users with Outstanding Balances
ZETDC says it will be disconnecting post-paid users with outstanding balances nationwide while reconnections will be done after full payments.
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In a statement today, ZETDC advised its clients countrywide that the utility is currently undertaking disconnections for all postpaid users with outstanding balances.
The power utility said clients are requested to settle their bills in full to avoid the inconvenience of being disconnected. The statement reads:
“Disconnected clients are further advised that they will be required to settle their bills in full, pay a security deposit equivalent to two months’ average bill, as well as the reconnection fees as stipulated in the Electricity Act.
“Supplies will only be reconnected once all the required amounts have been paid in full.”
Meanwhile…
Nearly 155 million units of substandard products have been rejected by Zimbabwe since the implementation of the Consignment Based Conformity Assessment (CBCA) programme in 2015 enabling the country to reduce the influx of hazardous and suboptimal products locally.
Bureau Veritas was assigned by the Government, through the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, to ensure that the quality of products imported into Zimbabwe were regulated or met minimum safety, health and quality standards.
ZESA to Disconnect Users with Outstanding Balances
The CBCA said there was a need to facilitate trade across the country’s borders while reducing or minimising the volume of non-compliant goods within the interest of consumer safety, protection of local industry as well as fostering fair competition.
In recent years, the domestic market was subjected to the influx of cheap imported products rendering the local players uncompetitive while also capacity utilisation in the manufacturing sector declining to an average of 10 percent in 2008.
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The manufacturing sector has in the past four years been registering steady gains in volumes and production capacity.
In 2022, Zimbabwe’s manufacturing sector capacity utilisation stood at 56,1 percent and the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), which is the country’s industry representative body, is yet to release results of last year’s manufacturing sector survey report.
