Eskom and Cahorra Bassa threaten to pull the plug on Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has been given two months to pay its bills for power from South African power utility Eskom and Mozambique’s Hydro Cahora Bassa, HCB.

Zimbabwe imports at least 30% of its power and owes Eskom about R250-million and HCB about R126-million.

Julian Chinembiri, managing director of the ZimbabweElectricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) said this week that arrears were mounting.

“Eskom gave us up to December 2016 while HCB gave us up to the end of November to clear the arrears. At the moment we are enjoying stable power supply and we would want to keep supplies as they are and ensure that load shedding does not occur,” he said.