Power provider Eskom will not cut off electricity to Zimbabwe at the end of the month after the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe stepped in. Eskom spokesman Khulu Phasiwe said the utility had recently received a letter from the bank saying the state would step in to clear the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority's arrears. "The Zimbabwe central bank wrote to us and is providing a government guarantee for the debt," Phasiwe said. "That is enough for us [Eskom] that the state has now stepped in. It's not an unusual arrangement for states to provide guarantees and even us at Eskom, we have government guarantees for the debts which we owe." He said Zesa had been "pro-active" in its engagement with Eskom over its challenges in making payment and there was no vendetta against Zesa. "We are not even singling out Zimbabwe for not being able to pay. They have publicly acknowledged what they owe to Eskom. We as Eskom are not going to say the amounts owed to us in public, except that they [Zesa] are ...
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