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Zimbabweans may face power rationing

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zimbabweans face possible electricity rationing because the country’s power imports are being threatened by serious foreign currency problems, the country’s electricity supplier, media reports said on Wednesday.

    According to the reports, the state owned Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) said it was struggling to pay its import bills because of hard currency shortages and its own serious cash-flow problems. ZESA imports about 55 percent of its power needs from Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. If imports were cut, ZESA said it could be forced to ration power to residential areas and other “non-essential” institutions.

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