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Zimbabwe finds uranium, to make electricity - Mugabe
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-11-21 10:00
Zimbabwe has discovered uranium but intends to mine the commodity only to
generate electricity, not for use in making nuclear weapons, President Robert
Mugabe said in remarks broadcast on Sunday.
"We have found uranium, which is used to make electricity (and) the bombs
that you hear about ... but when we mine it we would not want it to be used in
bomb making ... We would use it to give us electricity," Mugabe said on state
television.
The television said Mugabe spoke at a function at a plant owned by state
power utility Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority. It did not give details.
Zimbabwe imports 35 percent of its electricity from South Africa, Mozambique,
Zambia and DRC to augment domestic supplies but ZESA has battled to pay for
imports in recent years as a result of biting foreign currency shortages.
The crunch has resulted in frequent power cuts that have disrupted industrial
production as the southern African country battles its worst economic crisis in
decades.
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