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By Ellen Fungisai Chipango
ELECTRICITY theft is a global challenge and Zimbabwe hasn’t been spared. The country has lost up to 1, 000km of power lines due to cable theft.
The official explanation is that this is driven by organised crime with some accomplices coming from government departments. Politicians say theft and the vandalism of electricity infrastructure are politically motivated to derail the government’s economic endeavours.
This would be the effect of blackouts, rising energy costs, and lost taxes.
I conducted research to illuminate what policy options are enabled, constrained, or made invisible by the way electricity theft is spoken about in Zimbabwe. I found that this discourse conceals the real cause of electricity scarcity in the country.
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2021-05-20 02:05:56 GMT2021-05-20 10:05:56(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HARARE, May 19 (Xinhua) Zimbabwe s energy minister Soda Zhemu has said 40 percent of its fuel should be sold in local currency.
His remarks, reported by the state broadcaster Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation on Wednesday, came in the wake of the lack of fuel sold in Zimbabwe dollars.
He said motorists should be afforded the opportunity to buy fuel in Zimbabwe dollars as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is providing foreign currency to fuel operators in exchange for local currency to procure the commodity.
There are two ways in which fuel is procured in Zimbabwe, either through free funds or through the RBZ facility of foreign exchange auction system which means there are two options to buy fuel with foreign currency or local currency.
Electricity theft is a global challenge and Zimbabwe hasn’t been spared. The country has lost up to 1,000km of power lines due to cable theft.
The official explanation is that this is driven by organised crime with some accomplices coming from government departments. Politicians say theft and the vandalism of electricity infrastructure is politically motivated to derail the government’s economic endeavours. This would be the effect of blackouts, rising energy costs and lost taxes.
I conducted research to illuminate what policy options are enabled, constrained or made invisible by the way electricity theft is spoken about in Zimbabwe. I found that this discourse conceals the real cause of electricity scarcity in the country.