Mounting Anger As Residents Drink Sewage
Residents in Zimbabwe's cities, like the little girl in Kambuzuma pictured here, are still collecting dirty water from drains and polluted wells for their needs because the taps are still dry. Now a massive electricity blackout, affecting suburbs for more than three days at a trot, are stoking the people's anger against the MDC-T and the Inclusive Government. The most common sentiment is that "We never experienced this bad when Mugabe was alone in Government." With the advent of winter here in Zimbabwe (which has come early this year, not in June as in other years), ZESA, the Power Authority, has started a brutal, unforgiving schedule of rolling blackouts (load-shedding). Large swathes of Harare, Bulawayo and other urban centres are being totally cut off for more than three days at a time. As I speak right now, large parts of industrial areas around Graniteside and Workington are in darkness. Quite apart from the impact this has on the operations of private enterpris...