Zambia surpasses SA as biggest supplier of electricity to Botswana at 40.5%

Zambia surpasses SA as biggest supplier of electricity to Botswana at 40.5%

By Daily Revelation Reporter

Zambia has surpassed South Africa as the biggest supplier of electricity to Botswana despite its decimated power generation capacity locally where Zambians have been enduring 21-hours of daily loadshedding, even more.

And South Africa’s Eskom, the former biggest supplier to Botwana, has scaled down exports to that country on account of its own loadshedding issues.

According to Business Weekly of Botswana, the latest figures from Statistics Botwana showed that Zambia had surpassed South Africa as the biggest supplier of electricity to that country.

“Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation Limited (ZESCO), known to generate power from the massive hydro-powered Kariba Dam, is grappling with the worst electricity blackouts in living memory,” the media organisation revealed. “However, ZESCO is Botswana’s major power supplier, according to the latest figures from Statistics Botswana.”

The media organisation bewildered that this was happening, stated that

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