Zesa Holdings could be losing more than US$10 million in potential revenue monthly due to electricity thefts by a syndicate involving its employees. It has also emerged that the power utility is producing electricity at a high cost of about 14 US cents per kilowatt hour due to inefficiencies that see thermal energy stations wasting coal, a major raw material in power generation. People must therefore learn to converse the little electricity that is available as coal is a non renewable resource.

The loss that Zesa Holdings is experiencing is resulting in the increased load shedding the country has been experiencing last week. The load shedding has had impacts on the industries as they had to go for almost 8 hrs without electricity. when l read the herald on the load shedding that has been occurring lately, l learnt  that more than 10 current and former Zesa employees are involved in the power thefts, although some of them have not yet been charged and are still at work.

with all the corruption that is happening in the country, how then do we expect to make things right and revamp the industries that have closed long since. Even when there are many people who want to invest n the country, for instance, the owner of Dunlop sent a proposal that has to be approved to let them invest in the country to revamp industries. But if the load shedding and the thefts continue, are they going to stay in a country that introduced prepaid electricity to save energy and allow people to use what they afford yet corruption is on the lead and nothing seems to be working. 

when l as in gweru last week, residents were complaining that units per dollar had been reduced. some of the residents have opted to use wood to do all the cooking and then use the electricity for lighting only. so will the economy of Zimbabwe ever recover when the populations face more load shedding that is causing industries to close and look for alternative means of energy. this might lead to more deforestration and increased soil erosion which might affect rainfall patterns