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Technical fault takes Hwange Unit 8 off the grid

Zimbabwe's power utility, Zesa Holdings, has announced that Unit 8 of Hwange Thermal Power Station has been taken off the national grid due to a technical fault and will remain out of service for 10 ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 21 October 2025

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

120MW boost as Hwange Unit 6 restored

Zimbabwe's power generation capacity received a significant boost on Tuesday with the successful restoration of Unit 6 at Hwange Thermal Power Station, adding a crucial 120 megawatts (MW) to the nati...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 October 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Hwange Unit 6 suffers system failure

The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) has taken Hwange Power Station's Unit 6 offline following a system failure, temporarily reducing the station's generation capacity.Unit 6, one of the original thermal...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 October 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Hwange to release 600 housing stands

The Hwange Local Board has completed the surveying and pegging of 600 residential, commercial and institutional stands as part of efforts to reduce the town's housing backlog and address the shortage...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 October 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Hwange villagers, miner clash over dam

Hwange villagers have petitioned the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) to halt a Chinese company from extracting water from Kalope Dam, a community-built reservoir that serves as the primary ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 October 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Hwange fires up US$8 million coke oven battery

Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) is set to ignite its newly refurbished US$8 million coke oven battery on Wednesday, marking a significant milestone in the company's industrial turnaround strate...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 September 2025

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Hwange Power Station's older units to undergo major rehab

Hwange Thermal Power Station is set for a significant upgrade, with Cabinet approving the contracting of Jindal (Private) Limited to rehabilitate six older units commissioned in the 1980s. The project...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 September 2025

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Hwange Unit 3 shuts down for 44 days

Zesa Holdings has announced that Unit 3 at Hwange Power Station will be taken offline for statutory maintenance from 10 September to 24 October 2025, a move aimed at enhancing the unit's reliability ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 September 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Hwange struggles to complete projects

Hwange Local Board Town is struggling to complete several development projects outlined in previous strategic plans due to financial constraints, with much of its funding dependent on intergovernmenta...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 September 2025

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Hwange power station hits record output

Zimbabwe's flagship Hwange Power Station expansion has achieved its highest electricity output since coming online last year, producing 498 million kilowatt hours (kWh) in August, project contractor P...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 September 2025

MINING & RETAIL

Hwange Colliery sinks US$3,5m in new equipment

Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) has injected over US$3.5 million into the acquisition of new equipment as part of its ongoing modernisation and turnaround strategy aimed at boosting Zimbabwe's ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 August 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Hwange's new CBD takes shape

The Hwange Local Board (HLB) has officially launched a long-anticipated greenfield development project that will see the creation of a brand-new central business district (CBD), in a major step toward...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Hwange faces ecological crisis

Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe's largest wildlife sanctuary, is facing a looming ecological disaster as its overpopulation of elephants threatens to wipe out one of the park's most vital tree species ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Poaching fears resurface in Hwange National Park

Wildlife authorities have launched a probe following the discovery of a male elephant carcass with a missing tusk in Hwange National Park. The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimPark...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Hwange mining concessions, rights taken by outsiders

Shocking revelations have surfaced showing that all mining concessions and rights in Hwange District are held by non-residents, sparking widespread outrage over what critics say is the government's de...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Hwange locals marginalised in coal mining rights

Only three residents from Hwange currently hold mining rights in the coal-rich district of Matabeleland North, raising alarm over the systematic exclusion of locals from the region's lucrative mining ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 June 2025

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Zesa expects normal service at Hwange on Friday

ZESA Holdings has announced that normal electricity supplies from Hwange Power Station are expected to resume by Friday, May 9, following an emergency outage caused by tube leaks that crippled all uni...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 May 2025

TRANSPORT & TOURISM

Scientists fit tracking device to Hwange elephants

In a groundbreaking conservation effort, scientists have successfully fitted GPS-enabled satellite collars to eight African savannah elephants in the Hwange National Park region. This initiative, whic...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 May 2025

MINING & RETAIL

Zimbabwe govt bails out Hwange

The government has issued US$112m worth of Treasury Bills to settle debts owed by Hwange Colliery Company (HCCL), Business Times reported.Government is the biggest shareholder in HCCL with a 37% stake...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 June 2022

BUSINESS NEWS

Hwange station needs complete overhaul

SUBDUED power generation at Hwange Power Station is contributing to prolonged load shedding as only four units out of six are operating, general manager for the plant, Engineer Arnold Chivurayise, has...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

600MW Hwange plant takes shape

WORK on the expansion of the Hwange Power Station Stage 7 and 8 expansion is on track with 26 percent ground work having been covered so far, Sunday Business has learnt.The Government contracted Chine...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 October 2019

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Hwange 7 & 8 expansion 21% complete

The Hwange Thermal Power Station expansion project is now 21 percent complete, with the first unit set to be commissioned by the end of the first quarter next year. This was said by Finance and Econom...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 October 2019

MINING & RETAIL

Colliery bounces back to profitability

HWANGE Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) is on the rebound after posting a profit of $3,5 million in the first half of 2019, recovering from a loss of $23 million recorded in 2018.The troubled firm had ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 October 2019

MINING & RETAIL

Tundiya's company diverts ZPC’s 1 003 tonnes of coal

A FORENSIC audit on Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) has unearthed serious irregularities, where a haulage company owned by Shepherd Tundiya diverted about 1 003 tonnes of coal meant for the Zim...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 April 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Hwange extension project underway

The actual construction works for Zesa's US$1,4 billion Hwange Power Station (HPS) 7 and 8 extension project have started, giving hope the project will be completed within time and original budget, a ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 February 2019
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