Zimbabwe faces a total power blackout by the end of the week unless the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) urgently acquires foreign currency to settle outstanding debts to regional power suppliers. Sources within the parastatal yesterday told The Standard that the regional electricity suppliers, South Africa's Eskom and HydroCahora Bassa (HCB) of Mozambique, had lost their patience with Zesa which had since last year, failed to settle debts amounting to billions of Zimbabwean dollars due to the critical shortage of foreign currency. Over the past few weeks, the suppliers had substantially reduced the supply of electricity to Zimbabwe, forcing the local power utility to introduce load shedding which has severely affected Zimbabwe's industry. Already, supply from SNEL of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was reportedly switched off last month.
| Eh, don't worry about it. It's just that capitalism stuff, you know, exchanging filthy lucre for commodities. Can't be a proper national socialist if you worry about handing money over to capitalists. |
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