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Ray Bande
Mutare Bureau
PROVISION of reliable electricity supply across the country is one of the many boxes that the new dispensation can tick in its service delivery achievements in the short period that it has been in office.
Zanu PF Women’s League national Secretary for Administration Cde Monica Mutsvangwa said this in her address during a Zanu PF Women’s League small enterprises exhibition at DC Mutasa yesterday.
Cde Mutsvangwa, who is also the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services said Zimbabwe was now angling to export electricity by 2025.
Of late there has not been interruptions in electricity supply in homes and businesses across the country. “The country needs about 1 600 Megawatts and we are confident that we will be able by 2025, to produce more than double that amount. Technically this means we will have enough for ourselves and surplus to export.
“The provision of reliable electricity supply was after realisation by the new dispensation led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa that energy is the backbone of all business and social development.
“There is really nothing we can do without smooth and uninterrupted availability of electricity. We went through a period as a nation, a period when we did not have electricity even in our homes.
“The current situation is ample evidence of the development discourse of the new dispensation,” said Cde Mutsvangwa.
Currently, Zimbabwe imports power from South Africa’s Eskom and Mozambique’s Hydroelectrica de Cahora Bassa.
The power expected to be produced locally by 2025 will not only be sufficient for the country’s needs, but will also suffice for an industrialised Zimbabwe as envisaged by the economic growth that is being planned in line with Vision 2030 that is set to transform Zimbabwe into an upper middle income economy by that year.
The projects themselves, are designed to support the country’s industrialisation drive by generating the required electricity.
“We are happy that the devolution agenda is being pursued in earnest. Funds are being distributed countrywide for the purpose.
“Here in Mutasa, we have projects that have been financed through the devolution agenda. In the same breadth, we are excited that the provincial councils policy is being pursued and the members are now active on the ground,” said Cde Mutsvangwa
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