On an early Tuesday morning characterised by the winter chill, poorly heated by sporadic streaks of sunshine, Edna Muganhu dumps nearly 25kg of malodorous meat at a dump site a few kilometres south of the capital Harare. The meat from a nearby butchery where she works as a cashier was slowly rotting after the country's rolling power cuts affected the outlet's refrigerators.
Big business is also suffering from the outages and even though they can afford to run diesel generators, they have to cut back on business hours. Such is the case with Simbisa Brands, which operates Nando’s, Steers, Chicken Inn and Pizza Inn outlets, among others. The gripping power crunch has been exacerbated by declining water levels at the Kariba Dam that feeds the Kariba Hydro Power Plant. The Zambezi River Authority, which manages water usage from the dam, said this week that water levels at Kariba are at a low 29percent.
Knowledgeable engineers said Zimbabwe is currently running on a power deficit of about 850MW as it is also struggling to import electricity from Mozambique and from Eskom owing to arrears that require foreign currency. Apart from the power crunch, Zimbabwean businesses are witnessing declining purchases as consumers struggle with price increases, business executives say.
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