ZESA Effectively Using Website To Update Customers
ZESA impressed us today. The national power company is using the internet to provide customers with daily updates on important issues affecting the customers. Visit www.zesa.co.zw to see what we’re...
View ArticleElectricity infrastructure & ICTs: Zesa’s 31% tariff increase
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has come up with what it believes is a grand plan to vanquish power cuts (also known as Load Shedding) from the great lands between the Limpopo and...
View ArticleHow tech can help: The Zesa prepaid power billing
Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) has been phasing out the old power meters and replacing them with the Cash Power prepaid meters like the one on the right. Zesa recently had our power meter...
View ArticlePowerTel introduces weekly & biweekly mobile broadband packages
In what is certainly a first in the market locally, PowerTel is introducing weekly and biweekly uncapped internet packages. The move according to PowerTel marketing manager Willard Nyagwande, has been...
View ArticleEasi simplifies prepaid electronic vending
You’ve probably seen the Easi logo on the right in a number of retail outlets in the country. The company has entered the market to provide a South African designed solution to simplify the electronic...
View ArticleWith ZESA so unreliable, why aren’t we keen to produce our own power
Something that has always struck me as strange is that no matter how unreliable the national power company’s supply is, there's just not that many people that consider solar power an alternative. By...
View ArticleEcoCash integrates to DSTV for pay TV subscription via mobile money
If you thought being able to pay for your DStv at a supermarket till point was convenient (it was, we tried it), this is just going to be awesome. It's one development we know most middle income...
View ArticleTo Zim parastatals: mum is not the word.
Imagine this: You get home at around 6 pm exhausted from your day at work. Your wife is in the kitchen preparing dinner and you decide to catch on the day’s news on the television in the lounge. As...
View ArticleZESA Enterprises website hacked
The website belong to ZESA holding subsidiary, ZESA Enterprises, has been defaced. We’re not sure exactly when the defacement happened but visiting the site right now shows the page below. From what...
View ArticleYear end review: 2013 was a year of darkness, so will 2014.
In between the politicking of 2013 one of the sad facts that has somehow not garnered the attention it rightly deserves is the fact that Zimbabwe is facing a serious energy crisis. Aside from the fact...
View ArticleHow an App & SMS can help end ZESA load shedding
Today most of the African continent is in pitch black darkness. literally! The Zimbabwean government, like a number of other African governments, has not – for one brilliant reason or the other –...
View ArticleZesa “Hackers” steal US$10 million every month
From all those movies and TV shows that I watch, I have always wondered what a real world hacker looks like and inevitably, every-time I attempt the exercise an image of a soulless misanthropist with...
View ArticleZESA “Juice Cards” a welcome move, but …
Frankly I can hardily remember the last thing ZESA did anything right; and I am referring to my entire lifelong memories here. Parastatals are bad in general but the state utility seems to have a...
View ArticleWhy, really, is ZESA not selling prepaid electricity tokens on EcoCash and...
In the past couple of months, we have seen the issue of the electronic vending of ZESA prepaid electricity tokens come to what seems like a close. After issuing and withdrawing tenders to have an...
View ArticleWorld Cup: Beating ZESA’s dirty tricks
So I have already expressed my love for the Germans and how much I loathe the beautiful Samba football of the Brazilians – may they crash out in the first round. Whilst getting ready to watch the...
View ArticlePower company, ZESA, issues notice & schedule of severe load shedding
If your June, like ours, has started with frustrating long hours of unexplained power outages every day, consider this the explanation. It won’t unfortunately provide any relief to this madness, but at...
View ArticleZESA adds TelOne, Agribank to electricity coupon agents. Excludes Econet,...
The mobile payments revolution of the past three years has brought unparalleled convenience to Zimbabwe. Just as it has in many African countries. It has meant significantly less hassle in moving money...
View ArticleHow’s this for a relevant startup idea – IsThereZESA.com
They say that some of the best ideas are found in the graveyard, buried with their originators. I have had my fair share of dances with hackathons and startup challenges, never seeming to crack the...
View ArticleThe Netone-ZESA marriage- Pride goeth before a fall
A must-be-gleeful NetOne was granted an unexpected boost ahead of its competitors in the ZESA prepaid electricity retailing facility. They are the only MNO awarded the opportunity to sell prepaid...
View ArticleZESA needs help
There is a joke currently doing rounds in the social media about how leaders can make their nations happy. While for most nations this is a very difficult and often complicated feat that involves well...
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