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Nampower, the Namibia Power Utility Company one of whose stations is shown in the photo above says media reports that Zimbabwe Energy Minister Elias Mudzuri had stopped power exports are a pack of lies and that Nambia is still getting its power from Zimbabwe as normal, even as Zimbabwe itself reels under a severe shortage of power and puts its businesses and citizens through punishing schedules of power cuts and load-shedding Harare, Zimbabwe, 18 January 2010 Zimbabwe's closest ally in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has accused the Zimbabwe government of lying that they had stopped power exports to Namibia in a statement that says Nampower is aware of the "alleged  Directive from the Zimbabwean Energy Minister to ZESA." There was an outcry when it emerged that Zimbabwe's power company, the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) was importing and then re-exporting power supplies to Namibia in order to fulfill a contractual obligation to its Nam...

This is Hwange Power Station in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) is struggling to maintain the plant amid shortages of coal and breakdowns, which has led to frightening levels of power cuts and rationing all across the country. The people are angry and in such an environment, it was inevitable that one of them would take it out on a ZESA worker. Harare, Zimbabwe, 15 November 2009 A Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority worker is lucky to be alive after a mob descended on him in Chitungwiza, on the outskirts of Harare and beat him up for trying to disconnect the supply of a resident who was behind in his payments. The worker apparently tried to mount his motorbike but was pulled down and beaten up. When the mob let up a bit, he escaped, together with his bike and made a report at a local police station, leading to the arrest of the home owner and two others. ZESA workers in the town, angered by the treatment of one of their own, apparently formed their own gang...