ENERGY Minister Peter Kapala says government will review the 12-hour load-shedding schedule in October and has reiterated that power outages will continue throughout this year. And Zesco Kariba North Bank Power Station (KNBPS) senior manager Cephas Museba says the power utility company will be forced to shut down KNBPS if the country doesn’t receive any rains by January 2025. Speaking when he and his Water and Sanitation counterpart Minister Mike Mposha toured the Kafue Gorge and Kariba North Power Stations and KNBPS, Friday, Kapala said government was doing some background work of importing power. “It is plain to see that the water levels are very very low compared to last year. This time of the year, we could have been...

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