Zismo Engineering designs, builds transformer

BABOKI KAYAWE
Staff Writer | Tuesday March 9, 2010 00:00

The company which has a pool of large business corporations, works with corporations like Botswana Power Corporation, Water Utilities Corporation, Debswana, Tati Nickel, BCL and Morupule Power Station. The electrical engineering company deals with industrial power, repairing electrical machines and conveyer machines in the mines. 

In a recent media tour sponsored by CEDA, Zismo Managing Director Justice Moilwa said they managed to clinch that market because of experience and quality work the company produces. 

'We have tested the transformer in our workshop, we are still waiting for Botswana Power Corporation to come and inspect it,' said Moilwa.

If approved, Moilwa said this could mean a lot to the company that received a P2.1 million loan from CEDA in 2001. In addition, the company was given performance bonds valued at P1.9 million.

'We will have a complete transformer workshop which could serve both the local market and export to the region as well,' he said. Moilwa said so far they have set themselves apart in the electrical engineering business as the company has to date successfully repaired about one hundred transformers.  However, the biggest challenge that the business is facing is lack of qualified citizens in the field. He said when they try to employ foreign artisans with hands-on experience in transformers, the challenge is that the processing of the work permits takes long.

'The process is made slow by the fact that they require degrees, but this work does not need such qualifications; just experience,' he said.  Zismo Engineering has 176 employees seven of which are non-locals.