Secondly, the past government had plans to connect the entire province to the national grid and Zesco was ready to undertake this venture at a cost of US$ 180M. These plans were advanced but alas, the current government says they have no money for such venture. What baffles my mind is whether connecting the entire province at this one cost is useless but to incur a recurrent cost of buying fuel every month at K250M (30,000Litres)/per district, which totals K 1.2 Billion per month and only realize a paltry K 21M as revenue on average per district coupled with other running costs for the Generator Sets like spares.

President Michael Sata is expected in Zimbabwe this week for a State visit during which he will officially open the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair, which begins in Bulawayo today. Zimbabwean Presidential spokesperson Mr George Charamba confirmed to the Zimbabwean state run Herald newspaper. President Sata’s visit. “There are two things happening here. “He (President Sata) [...]

Police in Lusaka have arrested a 28 year old woman for allegedly stabbing his husband to death. Police Spokesperson Elizabeth Kanjela explained  that the incident happened on Saturday 21st April, 2012 between 20:00 hours and 21:30 hours at house No.C52, Msisi compound. Ms Kanjela says it is believed that Kelvin Simonda aged 40 years went [...]

Established in September 2009, the Zambian Watchdog has continued leading online journalism in Zambia and favourably competing with traditional media. The redership of the Watchdog has continued soaring with latest statistics showing that the pages of the Watchdog were  ’scanned’ by readers more than six million times from March 22 to April 22, 2012. Google [...]