GOVERNMENT has disclosed that it will soon engage Zesco on the possibility of splitting the eight hours of load shedding in order to cushion its impact on businesses. And Chief Government Spokesperson Cornelius Mweetwa says government is forecasting a harvest of 1, 750,000 metric tonnes of maize from provinces that have had normal rainfall. Speaking when he featured on ZNBC’s Sunday Interview programme, Mweetwa observed that the current eight hours load shedding schedule was too lengthy. “The Ministry of Energy will actively in the next few days engage Zesco to see how it can allocate or apportion the eight hours because it is coming to be understood to be a very lengthy period of time and it is. In most...

To continue reading this premium content, login to your account or Subscribe to our ePaper using the buttons below.
Log In Subscribe