Zimbabwe is threatened with imminent total darkness across the country as a result of the Hwange Colliery company’s workers downing tools in protest over unpaid salaries.
Information reaching ZimEye reveals that Hwange Colliery company has just closed down its main underground number 3 and open cast.
The situation has worsened after workers protesting over their unpaid salaries have been expelled from work through a memo issued on Friday the 18th October, leaving operations understaffed.
“The resultant effects of the shut are that once a stock pile at a power station is exhausted, the country will plunge into total darkness as these 3 units will stop functioning no need to mention the coke battery which require a temperature above 1 500 degrees,” a source told ZimEye on Saturday.
He continued,
“Yesterday temperatures were already 1 500. Workers are demanding their salaries from March to September, no single cent was paid in between. Zesa may take down a unit or two to remain with one,” the source added.
ZESA’s failure to pay workers comes at a time when the company was struggling to meet the electricity demands of the country and the parastatal was last month ordered to scrap debts of all residents.
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I wonder if Mavaire has any clue on what to.
He left old and worn out car selling oranges in masvingo to become energy minister.
Zviri paHarare zvakatooma vana vepasi.Imi muchibinduka nekushanda,ivo vachitora mari vachiidunga.Haaa,inderiya nderiya.
they want to fire workers and employ zanu youths, then say its employment creation. kupfunga kwe munu akaita grade seven uku. Why fire someone who is striking for his money. These colliery employees are fighting for what is rightfully theirs they can`t afford to succumb to their mismanagement of the company, they are building expensive houses ridding expensive cars. Where are they getting the money from, if truly the company doesn`t have have money why are managers not leaving the colliery and work for better companies. LETS FIGHT UP TO THE END, UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL.
mu ko shaw wako mugabe
Funny they haven’t paid their workers for several months now… and they are on strike… then on Friday they announced that they are hiring New workers next month…. The Maggots want to fire the workers on strike…
All things come to an end. Dnt blame scraping of outstanding resdential debts on unpaid workers…be the cause of the tools dwn.. We pay bills all the time thats why President Mugabe requested the slashing of these debts coz it was unrealistic.. City concil is nt complaining so why zesa? This is nonsense hw can a resident accumulate hundred dollars in a month on electricty?
the coz was Freddy Gandiwa Moyo who then was awarded to be the deputy minister of Mines…If he go to Hwange to address the impasse he will be beaten up by workers nowonder he won under zanu pf ticket in Mberengwa the guy is just bad news like the party he represents…If he is not a representative of SATAN then i dont know who will then represent the devil…History tells us Freddy Gandiwa Moyo wherever he manages it will be disaster in the long run…He was an MD at Shabani-Mashava & Bindura Nickel Company during his tenure thinx become awkward let alone the workers…Recently he was arrested over a $2 million he swindled frm other firms & the mine he took again forced to shut down when he failed to pay workers…Yes i have the memo which was addressed to workers by the Acting MD Chininga,,,instead of highlighting in the same memo how are they going to address salary issues he was just threatening & dismissing workers not sure if that will cure the disease…Hwange Colliery have been run by Proffessional thieves who didnt know where to steal…During the era of Dzinomwa that was the only time workers were happy ie 2006 going back & when rumours do the rounds that Dr G Dzinomwa is likely to bounce back workers were so happy as it was really a sigh of relief…After the departure of Dr Dzinomwa it was all badnews up2 2day…What sustained the company was the Heads of Departments by then,the likes of Gerald Sithole who was the Open Cast Mine Manager who went to be the General Manager of Mbada Diamonds…There were also notable proffessional workers who aided the growth of the company like muzaya Kumbirai Gaza,Collin Munyamana,Ntuli,Maponga Oliver,Onias Sithole,Tendai Kadya,Foromani Mavezere,Foromani Madzivire,Foromani Mujakachi…These were notable hardworking people in the mine…If the company really want to come back to its heydays they must look after the above mentioned people…I understand some are still with the company…So why again can u have a Human Resources Manager for more than 10years,what new ideas can be brought by Fati Mpofu…If Minister Chidhakwa as a new broom wants to solve the Colliery challenge then invite me to your 7th floor Zimre hse so that we talk since there is more than what meets the eye… I thank u
Fred Moyo go back and mop up ur rubbish
And we still blame sanctions for all this.
Let there be light !