The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has announced that a controlled leakage test on Sluice 3 at Kariba Dam will take place on 2 July 2025, marking a critical milestone in the ongoing Kariba Dam Rehabili...
By Staff reporter | Published: 01 July 2025
A booming black market fish trade along Lake Kariba, driven by the illegal use of cheap twine nets, is undermining Zimbabwe's formal fishing economy and fuelling millions of dollars in illicit financi...
By Staff reporter | Published: 22 June 2025
Water levels in Lake Kariba have shown a modest but encouraging rise, providing cautious optimism for improved hydropower generation in Zimbabwe and Zambia.According to the latest update from the Zamb...
By Staff reporter | Published: 03 June 2025
Water levels in Lake Kariba have recorded a steady rise, offering renewed optimism for improved electricity generation in Zimbabwe and Zambia, according to the latest update from the Zambezi River Aut...
By Staff reporter | Published: 05 May 2025
The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has successfully completed quality checks on Floodgate 1 of the Kariba Dam, marking a major milestone in the ongoing rehabilitation of one of southern Africa's most c...
By Staff reporter | Published: 26 April 2025
The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) has begun commissioning tests on the newly rehabilitated sluice gates at Kariba Dam, marking a critical phase in the near-completion of a major rehabilitation project...
By Staff reporter | Published: 14 April 2025
THE Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) is set to introduce high-tech equipment, including closed circuit television (CCTV) and drones, to improve security at Kariba Dam. This follows incidence of vandalism...
By Staff reporter | Published: 11 June 2019
MASHONALAND West Senator Sikelela Gumpo (Zanu PF) has called on government to declare Kariba a special economic zone, saying the town has the potential to earn foreign currency, as well as open up emp...
By Staff reporter | Published: 01 January 2019
KARIBA is set for a new treat as organisers of the proposed annual Nyaminyami Festival are angling to combine forces with the Nyaminyami Lakeside Festival hosts.Information privy to The Sunday Mail So...
By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2018
Kariba Dam's water level has risen markedly from a critically low level of about 20 percent last year to 83 percent; raising hope that significant benefits will continue to accrue from Kariba South Po...
By Staff reporter | Published: 10 June 2018
Foreign and domestic investors are angling towards creating a competitive package for the resort town of Kariba in anticipation of improved arrivals from international markets, with revelations that p...
By Staff reporter | Published: 31 March 2018
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has commissioned the Kariba South Hydro Power Station expansion project today.The $533 million energy expansion project will add two more units or generators with a capac...
By Staff reporter | Published: 28 March 2018
POWERTEL, a wholly-owned technological wing of Zesa Holdings, has launched its services in Kariba as part of its 100-day rapid results initiative target.The company's marketing manager Prosper Mutswir...
By Staff reporter | Published: 28 March 2018
President Mnangagwa will tomorrow commission two new units (Unit 7 and 8) at Kariba South Power Station, which have added an extra 300 mega watts (MW) to the national grid.The additional power supplie...
By Staff reporter | Published: 27 March 2018
THE Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) will today start an around the clock seven day test run for unit number 8 of the Kariba South extension project.The exercise will test performance and functionality of...
By Staff reporter | Published: 27 February 2018
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to commission Kariba South power expansion project's first unit on December 24, which will feed 150 megawatts onto the national grid.The project was undertaken...
By Staff reporter | Published: 12 December 2017
Planned to be completed in eight years, the project which is being undertaken by a French contractor Razel-BEC, will be developed at an estimated cost of about US$294 million. It entails the reshaping...
By Staff reporter | Published: 30 November 2017
Commissioning of the first power generating unit under the $533 million Kariba South extension project, is expected in the second week of December, while the plant is scheduled to start feeding 150 me...
By Staff reporter | Published: 28 September 2017
Industrial firm Masimba has been given a $15 million contract by IDBZ to build over 1 500 houses in Kariba. At completion the project will facilitate relocation of 391 house-holds who are presently at...
By Staff reporter | Published: 19 September 2017
The Kariba South Extension Project is now 92 percent complete and on course for commissioning by end of December as Government moves to clear the power deficit.This is part of an eight-pronged approac...
By Staff reporter | Published: 08 September 2017
ENERGY and Power Development ministry permanent secretary, Partson Mbiriri says the construction of the Kariba South Extension project is now 91% complete, with the first installation of 150MW ready f...
By Staff reporter | Published: 01 August 2017
The Kariba South expansion project is at 91 percent complete amid indications that the first phase of the project will bring 150 mega watts on the national grid by December this year.The successful im...
By Staff reporter | Published: 28 July 2017
Zambia has guaranteed a total $250 million loans jointly accessed with Zimbabwe - through the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) - from international financiers, targeted at funding refurbishment of Kariba...
By Staff reporter | Published: 07 June 2015
ENGINEERS have started on a R3.3bn rescue marathon to prevent the "catastrophic failure" of the Kariba Dam. According to a World Bank special report on the beleaguered structure - one of the biggest m...
By Tom Nevin | Published: 17 February 2015
Implementation of the Kariba Dam rehabilitation project is expected to commence early next year, the African Development Bank (AfDB) resident representative, Mr Mateus Magala has said. In an interview...
By Tendai Sahondo | Published: 30 July 2014
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