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Some Ministers Have Direct Lines Whilst Clinics Don't Have Electricity - Residents Association

4 years agoTue, 23 Jul 2019 19:22:45 GMT
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Some Ministers Have Direct Lines Whilst Clinics Don't Have Electricity - Residents Association

Ward Seven, a Harare Residents’ Association has lamented over the electricity crisis which it says needs urgent attention.

The Association argues that Zimbabwe needs viable solutions to the crisis considering that local power generation and imports continue to shrink. Below we paraphrase the possible solutions the Association’s suggested.

  1. Ward Seven notes the need to remove taxes and duties on inverters and batteries which make up about 80 % of any solar system. This comes after the government recently announced that it will be incentivising solar systems.
  2. The obvious, we should have built Hwange 7 and 8 ten years ago!
  3. We should have eliminated corruption thirty years ago. And several things, ‘in the past’. 
  4. Raise electricity tariffs already, invest the money in fixing things, openly and transparently.
  5. Solar geysers should be duty-free and tax-free. And non-solar geysers should be taxed to make them prohibitively expensive.
  6. Load shedding needs to be open and transparent considering that some are whispering that some ministers have direct lines to their houses whilst some clinics have no power.
  7. Energy minister, Fortune Chasi, has to publicise the list of debtors, even at is own peril. The public knows who owes ZESA but wants the authorities to confirm in the affirmative.

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