{"id":202913,"date":"2025-07-21T02:37:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chiredzi-sugarcane-farmers-to-benefit-from-new-zetdc-330kv-power-line\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T02:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:37:54","slug":"zimbabwe-chiredzi-sugarcane-farmers-to-benefit-from-new-zetdc-330kv-power-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chiredzi-sugarcane-farmers-to-benefit-from-new-zetdc-330kv-power-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chiredzi Sugarcane Farmers to Benefit From New Zetdc 330kv Power Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Lowveld sugarcane producers are set to benefit from Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority&#8217;s (ZESA) construction of a 330 kilovolt power line by its subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">ZETDC Acting Managing Director Abel Gurupira told a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Industry and Commerce this Tuesday that a 330 kilovolt line from Mutare to Chiredzi is under construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Sugarcane farmers in the lowveld have had power shortages over the years&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507180183.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>Lowveld sugarcane producers are set to benefit from Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority&#8217;s (ZESA) construction of a 330 kilovolt power line by its subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC). ZETDC Acting Managing Director Abel Gurupira told a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Industry and Commerce this Tuesday that a 330 kilovolt line from Mutare [&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":[14604,258,256,8373,35578,3030,6402,257,7047,254,24631,4887,4686,421],"class_list":["post-202913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-330kv","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benefit","tag-chiredzi","tag-farmers","tag-line","tag-news","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sugarcane","tag-zetdc","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202913","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=202913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202913\/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=202913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}