Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party has blamed the country’s severe power outages on former long-time leader Robert Mugabe.
Zimbabweans have been subjected to power outages lasting up to 18 hours per day for the past two weeks. The crisis worsened as a result of low water levels at the Kariba South power station.
According to a Zanu-PF spokesman, the country is currently dealing with the consequences of the previous administration’s “neglect” to invest in power generation over the years.
“The economic management of the last two decades of [President] Mugabe is retarding the speed of recovery; but you can’t doubt that there’s a recovery which is going on,” Chris Mutsvangwa told South African broadcaster eNCA.
The party has been in power since 1980 when the country gained independence from Britain.