Month: November 2017 Posts

ESCOM hikes blackout-persistent electricity tariffs by 25%

Nov 26, 2017 Kondwani Mkhalipi-Manyungwa 181 &

Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) will be hiking the rates that Malawians pay for blackout-persistent electricity by 25%. The hike, likely to come into effect next month, will see people pay out K73.23 from… ...

Govt taken to task over generators

Nov 24, 2017 Malawi24 Reporter 84 &

Government has been accused of using generators to steal public funds. Electricty Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) is procuring generators as a short term solution to power cuts Malawians are experiencing. According to a statement… ...

Load shedding to get worse – ESCOM

Nov 19, 2017 Lyonike Mughogho 104 &

The dark age continues to haunt Malawi as consumers have been informed by the power body they will continue to experience power shortages. Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) has clarified that it will continue… ...

Ex-ESCOM employee, 5 security guards in cooler over prepaid meters

Nov 11, 2017 Archangel Nzangaya 27 &

Police in the commercial city of Blantyre are keeping in custody a former ESCOM employee and five security guards for stealing prepaid meters. According to Blantyre police publicist Augustus Nkhwazi, officials from the parastatal discovered… ...

I am doing what Malawi could not do in fifty years – Mutharika

Nov 10, 2017 Archangel Nzangaya 613 &

Malawi president, Peter Mutharika, has said he is making Malawi do what the country failed to do under previous leaders, including his brother Bingu wa Mutharika and Kamuzu Banda. The president was referring to previous… ...

ESCOM CEO Mwapasa fired

Nov 09, 2017 Archangel Nzangaya 382 &

Amid continued blackouts, government has fired Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Chief Executive Officer Evelyn Mwapasa. This is according to a leaked ESCOM internal memo issued on Thursday, November 9 and signed by Director… ...

Malawi electricity crisis: Hydropower project to be completed in three years

Nov 09, 2017 Richard Jimu 56 &

As a hydropower project is set to be completed in 2020, donors say they appreciate efforts government is putting to deal with the situation. The remarks have been made by Japanese Ambassador to Malawi .… ...