The electricity challenges in Zimbabwe will be exacerbated by the shortage that has already hit South Africa.
Zimbabwe and Zambia face possible electricity challenges following the reduction of power generation at Lake Kariba due to declining water levels in the water body.
“The lake level is currently five metres above the minimum operating level when it should be eight above the minimum operating level at this time of the year,” ZRA, the authority jointly constituted by Zambia and Zimbabwe, said in a statement Friday. Owing to the below normal rains recorded to date, ZRA said the inflows into the lake had been below average, leading to the water levels at Lake Kariba dropping by over three metres from October 2018 to February 2019.
South Africa Latest News, South Africa Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Report calls for golf courses and bowling greens to be used for low-cost housingA radical new housing deal has been proposed to break apartheid barriers.
Read more »
UK unemployment rate hits 44-year low: official dataThe British unemployment rate has struck a 44-year low, official data showed, despite a broader economic slowdown as Brexit looms.
Read more »
UK unemployment rate hits 44-year low: official dataThe British unemployment rate has struck a 44-year low, official data showed, despite a broader economic slowdown as Brexit looms.
Read more »
UK unemployment rate hits 44-year low: official dataThe British unemployment rate has struck a 44-year low, official data showed, despite a broader economic slowdown as Brexit looms.
Read more »
Whooping cough epidemic in SA throws up shockingly low vaccination ratesThere is an outbreak of highly infectious whooping cough in SA, despite it being a vaccine-preventable disease. A vaccine expert says poor vaccine coverage is among the causes of the outbreak of pertussis, which poses the biggest deadly threat to babies. For more on this article, please visit Times Select.
Read more »
The high-income vs low-income climate change dilemmaEfforts to fight climate change in high-income nations impact negatively on all other UN sustainable development goals, writes Mark Buchanan
Read more »
THE WANING OF AMERICA: Official’s low-key visit betrays shrinking US influence in today’s worldSenior American official visits South Africa to reaffirm that the two nations do not hate each other, but not all that much more.
Read more »
South Africa ranks low on survey for world's happiest placesFinland is the world's happiest country of the 156 countries and territories studied in the 2019 World Happiness Report.
Read more »
GIULIETTA TALEVI: Aspen retains taste for acquisitions despite its current debt levelsSaddled with debt, low on working capital and its share price plummeting to an all-time low, Aspen still retains ambitions to go on an acquisition drive again
Read more »