{"id":180670,"date":"2024-09-16T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T09:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-prepaid-power-can-secure-supply-to-small-miners-zmf\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T09:09:13","slug":"zimbabwe-prepaid-power-can-secure-supply-to-small-miners-zmf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-prepaid-power-can-secure-supply-to-small-miners-zmf\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Prepaid Power Can Secure Supply to Small Miners &#8211; ZMF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">THE Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) has urged its members to migrate to the prepaid smart metering electricity billing system to avoid worsening the power supply situation and negatively affecting their operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Recently, ZESA said all medium and large customers in the commercial, industrial, tourism, mining sectors and institutions that are still on postpaid billing, should migrate to the prepaid billing platform with effect from October 1, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The power utility said the inclusion of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409160052.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) has urged its members to migrate to the prepaid smart metering electricity billing system to avoid worsening the power supply situation and negatively affecting their operations. Recently, ZESA said all medium and large customers in the commercial, industrial, tourism, mining sectors and institutions that are still on postpaid billing, should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,13332,257,7047,6173,7904,10046,254,5236,4686,421,49533],"class_list":["post-180670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-miners","tag-news","tag-power","tag-prepaid","tag-secure","tag-small","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supply","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zmf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}