ZESA Holdings subsidiary, Powertel, will roll out electronic vending of electricity recharge cards in about a month’s time in a bid to improve revenue collections.
The e-vending system will see eight parastatals and state enterprises become payment platforms and distributors of electricity recharge cards.
Powertel General Manager Samuel Maminimini said his company is working with the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) and other partners in the roll out of the e-vending system.
“Powertel is an aggregator in this whole process. Our investment in all this is 200 000 dollars,” said Maminimini.
The Minister of Energy and Power Development, Dzikamai Mavhaire, said during a tour of Powertel that the roll out of the system should put to rest that notion that the state enterprise had failed to ease convenience of paying for electricity.
He said there is no more excuse for ZESA Holdings to fail to collect money given the technology and expertise which its subsidiary Powertel has.
“We are quite excited at what we have seen this morning. Our big problem of revenue collection should be a thing of the past.
“With this new billing system everyone who uses power will be able to pay so those who have been using power without paying those days are over,” he said.
The e-vending system is expected to boost revenue collections for ZESA Holdings, which is owed US$800 million by commercial and domestic consumers. ZBC
