{"id":210770,"date":"2025-10-22T08:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-faces-intensified-power-cuts-as-zesa-shuts-down-hwange-unit-8-for-10-days\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:01:39","slug":"zimbabwe-faces-intensified-power-cuts-as-zesa-shuts-down-hwange-unit-8-for-10-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-faces-intensified-power-cuts-as-zesa-shuts-down-hwange-unit-8-for-10-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Faces Intensified Power Cuts As Zesa Shuts Down Hwange Unit 8 for 10 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Zimbabweans are set to endure worsening power cuts after ZESA Holdings announced that Hwange Power Station&#8217;s Unit 8 has been taken off the grid for 10 days due to a technical fault, further straining the country&#8217;s already fragile electricity supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The shutdown comes at a time when Unit 3 has been offline since September 10 for statutory maintenance, which is expected to be completed by October 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">As of October 21, the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) was generating 1,296MW, far below the country&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510220057.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>Zimbabweans are set to endure worsening power cuts after ZESA Holdings announced that Hwange Power Station&#8217;s Unit 8 has been taken off the grid for 10 days due to a technical fault, further straining the country&#8217;s already fragile electricity supply. The shutdown comes at a time when Unit 3 has been offline since September 10 [&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":[258,256,7210,6192,5080,2699,15381,257,7047,5223,254,13013,20786,4686,421],"class_list":["post-210770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cuts","tag-days","tag-faces","tag-hwange","tag-intensified","tag-news","tag-power","tag-shuts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unit","tag-zesa","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210770","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=210770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210770\/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=210770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}