ZESA Power Lines Nonsense!
11 February 2017
Dear ZimEye.
Mr editor can you please find out and advise us the public if there is any legal instrument through which ZESA and ZETDC can compel citizens to cut down trees, growing within their properties, that interfere with ZESA power lines.
If there is such an instrument what does it say in cases where a citizen or their private tree cutter gets accidentally electrocuted in the process.
– HM
There is no such instrument. It is the responsibility of ZESA to make sure that power lines are not touching any trees. Citizens can help by reporting if there are trees encroaching power lines as ZESA presently has no capacity to monitor all their routes.