State owned power company, Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority, says low water levels at the Kariba Dam are triggering the country’s current blackouts.
Zimbabwe’s main hydro plant is located at the dam but that is not the only renewable energy plant affecting electricity generation.
The failure of ageing equipment at its Hwange Thermal Power Stations have also played a part.
Zanu-PF is laying the blame for the crisis squarely at former President Robert Mugabe’s feet.
Speaking to eNCA, Zanu PF spokesperson Chris Mutsvangwa said:
“The power crisis that the country is facing currently is a product of years of neglect within Zimbabwe in particular.
“The mismanagement, the arm-fisted mismanagement of the last two decades of Mugabe and his G40s obviously has a negative pull.
“It is retarding the speed of recovery, but you can’t doubt that recovery is going on.”
However, the main opposition party, Citizens Coalition for Change, has done nothing to fix it.
For years Zimbabwe was also importing some of its electricity from neighboring South Africa, but the country is now also facing its energy crisis.
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