By Decide Nhendo
There is a sigh of relief for the Sese Growth Point business community and homesteads in the vicinity of Chivi Central Ward 20 as the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) finally replaced a transformer they had taken for repairs after it had fallen.
Speaking to TellZim News, Chivi Central Ward 20 councilor and businessman Alec Nhundu thanked ZESA for finally heeding their cries saying the local business people and community depended on electricity for various purposes.
“I am happy because Zesa managed to service the transformer and replaced it after four months leaving many businesses and households in the dark.
“The transformer serves Sese Growth Point and over 100 households so it’s good news for the local business people since bars and butcheries depend on electricity,” said Nhundu.
Nhundu said he had been putting effort daily to contact the provincial offices who only gave him excuses and even went further to contact the Ministers’ office as well as the Harare offices.
“From January 17 to April 20 I had been contacting Zesa office in Masvingo and the Minister of State’s office but we only got excuses from ZESA until now when they replaced the transformer,” said Nhundu.
Another Sese business person, Julieth Zihove said she was happy with the development and said business was back to normal since they could now sell cold beer and drinks to customers.
She appealed to ZESA saying since they have been affected by the fault, it could be to their advantage to their businesses if ZESA could spare them sometime when there is load shedding in other areas so they will be able to boost their businesses.
“I am happy with the replacement of the transformer, our businesses are back to life and we can meet our customers’ needs. We however appeal to ZESA to spare us on load shedding to compensate for the time we were in the dark,” said Zihove.
Another business person Jonas Nhengu who is into welding weighed in and said replacement of the transformer had boosted his business as using generator power was costly and not sustainable.
“The replacement of the transformer by ZESA is an advantage to us because we have businesses like welding which requires much power, and using generators as backup was costly but we are back to our normal operations,” said Nhengu.
