We may increase load shedding hours sooner than anticipated – Zesco
By Mwenya Mofya
ZESCO Limited says some parts of the country are experiencing more than eight hours of load shedding due to high power usage by customers, which is putting more strain on the national grid.
And the utility company says it has not yet extended load shedding beyond the current eight hours, but it may do so sooner than anticipated.
Meanwhile, the Corporation has announced that it has revised the load shedding schedule in residential areas to ensure a more equitable distribution of power outages across all customers.
Some customers have continued to express concern about the extended duration of load shedding, which now exceeds eight hours. In some instances, power is cut around 09:00 hours but only restored 11 or 12 hours later.
Commenting on this in an interview, Sunday, Zesco spokesperson Matongo Maumbi described it as emergency load shedding due…
The way ZESCO is speaking, it’s like they are giving people free electricity.
Bally is well and truly fixing us.
It is like he is punishing us voters because we once voted for PF.
Vote wisely in 2026.
With this comment I now understand Mwila when he said katundileni mu kariba dam kuti manzi yapake. How is Bally involved in the affairs of God when he is not even an angel or even just a small Dimon.
God is fixing us because of cutting down trees for business instead of preserving nature as we were instructed.
Mr. Bean, leave God out of this.
Was it God that sold our electricity to our neighbours? Or our maize?
With your comment, I can confirm you are indeed Mr. Bean!
Kikikikikiki I didn’t know you also love comedy
God is punishing the people of Zambia for making wrong choices! So don’t blame trees, rain is God-given! There were floods during Noah’s time in an area where there were no trees! Two weeks ago in Saudi Arabia there were floods but it’s bare land, desert without trees! So don’t blame cutting of trees, blame your evil acts against other Zambians! Blame your double toungues where you paint holy stance in public but behind closed doors you plan and do evil to Zambians that you hate over nothing! Ichili eli isa insala, just wait for a bag of mealie to be K800 in November! Because of very bad and poor government policies! People employed in the private milling industry are losing jobs every day because ZNS has illegally been made supplier of illegally acquired maize meal! What scandal! Feel pity on those losing jobs please! You talk of job creation but you are killing the processing industry. By the way when you employ teachers and nurses it’s not job creation because those jobs are already existing in the ministry of education and ministry of health job establishment register. Even when Rupiah Banda and Michael Sata ruled those vacancies were there, except they were not filled because for various reasons, like no enough money in the treasury to pay more workers or employment freeze etc! So praise singers understand these government protocols, Hichilema and Upnd are not creating any jobs by employing more teachers and nurses, they are simply filling in existing vacancies!
That’s pure superstition, Mununka unless you also believe that the 2021 elections were between God’s people and Satan’s followers. It has nothing to do with God because we’re preached to that God protects his own. Invoking God’s name is a sign that you have nothing meaningful to say.
Mapani, just resign. You have failed lamentably.
How did you not see the levels of water at kariba dam that they were falling?
You opted to run the generators at almost 100% the last two years so you can please your masters.
There is no way we have a drought in one season, and we are subjected to this level of nonsense. Please, resign, or you go the Bowa way
” I GUARANTEE THERE WILL BE NO LOADSHEDDING THIS YEAR EVEN IF THE WATER LEVELS AT KARIBA ARE DOWN. WE HAVE ALREADY TAKEN MEASURES TO MITIGATE THE IMPACT BY IMPORTING POWER” – PETER KAPALA, ENERGY MINISTER 9th February 2024.