ZESCO says it has put in place security measures to ensure the countrywide black out that plunged the country last year due to bush fires from the Zimbabwean side of the inter connector does not occur again.
Acting Managing Director, Cyprian Chitundu who disclosed this in Mazabuka when he addressed Commercial farmers and other business persons at Mazabuka’s Tennis club, yesterday, said the problem of bush fires requires urgent solutions because of the implications.
” Bush fires cause tripping which disturbs the system and to avoid this we have engaged our (Zimbabwe) colleagues in discussions to ensure the power lines on their side are cleared to avoid another problem,” said Chitundu.
Mr Chitundu said the measures put in place involve high level discussions with the Zimbabwean Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) to ensure bush around the power lines from Kariba in Zambia at the border with that country to Harare is cleared.
He told the meeting, last year Zambia, was plunged into total darkness because of bush fires from the Zimbabwean side that affected the interconnection and disturbed the ZESCO power system that resulted in transformers tripping down.
Mr Chitundu said failure by the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority to clear bush from the power lines, would force ZESCO to open the inter connector to protect the Zambian power system.
” ZESCO would be forced to open the inter connector for fear of plunging the country into total darkness that is if our counterparts from Zimbabwe do not remove the grass around power lines,” said Chitundu.
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Nambala 1!! Kale!!
What bush fires??? no planning whatsoever
Good morning.
LT are you sure the first sentence has been correctly edited? How can measures be put in place to ensure that the black out occurs again???
buluya ba zesco
Rubbish excuses by useless Zesco. In progressive countries the whole lot at Zesco including the managing director would be sacked. How can these power outages take years. In fact Zesco could be sued for failing to provide the service efficiently. Wait till I come back to Zambia.
Buluya bwakuswa amusize ba Zesco
does occur again?
#2 NINE CHALE.
Good observation on the sentence. Surely the black outage will again occur. To us in Chilenje. We had no power the all night till this morning.
ZESCO looking for any possible scapegoat… shame!!!!!!!!!!.
So the Zim guys can’t even clear grass/shrubs under their lines?
Boza, ife were we stay ku chimunzu black out ni daily. When we are not switched off, we even wonder what is happening
Can LT please find good editors than the ones that are there. the first statement is sending a very wrong information around….
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Teta secretly brought in the country and is secretly admitted in UTH ICU.UTH public relation manager Pauline Mbanggweta has also confirmed.
Teta can rot for the feast of maggots… who cares????
Chizungu…….Chizungu….!!!!!!!
these guys what bush fires..there busy burning the bush to displace the monkeys..power to the monkey that urinated on you know who…infact i want the moneky for sale on ebay
i want that moneky it can urinate all it wants when we win the elections come 2010
bush fire! send zns tractors to assist them with clearing the bush.
PRIVATISE ZESCO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Teta + Electoral Corruption of Zambia ECZ = Bad news and more suffering.
Tell us Teta, are you still fishing in your ponds?
I hear they chartered a small plane for TETA and was rushed to UTH yesterday. Wishing him steady recovery.
May Teta’s soul rest in pieces.
Now they know the importance of our UTH. Let TETA advise them to invest in UTH not morningside or Milpark clinics.Come back Teta so that you can explain the importance of equiping UTH or else VIP treatments abroad.
Ndelolela ka story ka ba M’Membe chilishani kanshi
Sounds like the power outages were meant to facilitate Teta`s secret comeback and readmission. Why should we be affected all long even before the on-coming rains can give us Blackouts scapegoated by “natural causes“(due to careless planning and prepararion)
tets is lucky to have gone as a passenger and not comeback as Sealed Cargo
Zesco! Donot lie to us. You cut power off so that you could sneak in the almost dead TETA. Doctors in RSA said this man is CLINICALLY DEAD. Find out the meaning
Are these the days of reckoning, Bwana Teta?
What happened to Dr. Lemba Nyirenda does it mean the man never measured to Zesco expectations or not? Bloggers tell the truth. Chitundu we are not interested in those silly statements bush clearing is not a one thing exercise its done yearly. How do you blame bush fires on Zim. Does it mean those guys at ZESA are not aware that they are supposed to do bush clearing on the powerlines leeway? What nonsense to come from Zesco CEO. Shame.
Hooooray! Teta we are waiting for your national boring moarning.Its about time justice is done to the zambian people by nature cleaning up our political scene
Now fires have started burning electricity, interesting. How come we even used to experience blackouts in December -February when I came to Zambia? Do Zimbabawean fires even burn high tension cables during the rainy season? The problem is that MDs and their cohots are paid K30 milion + even when there is no production, how can someone care when they know that whether ZImbabwean fires burn and blackout Zambian power or not they will still get their lofty salaries? If I was in their boots, I also wouldn’t care.
i for one will sleep soundly after such a comforting pronouncement from this bureaucrat. methinks not!
i say liberalize the energy industry, privatize zesco and sell zed to taiwan/china. let’s end this suffering now.