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    JOHANNESBURG

    The state-owned Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) is sending out
    "conflicting signals" about the state of the power supply industry, first
    announcing the re-imposition of load-shedding, with immediate effect, and
    then denying that any such move was being introduced, a new report by the
    Economist Intelligence Unit said.

    ZESA claimed to have paid off the US $17.7 million it owed the South African
    electricity utility, but is clearly having difficulty sourcing adequate
    foreign currency to fund the estimated 45 percent of energy requirements
    that are imported from South Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo,
    Zambia and Mozambique, the report said. "Thus whatever the truth about load-shedding, industry sources warn that power supplies are likely to be
    interrupted once the winter starts in May," it forecast.

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