Cure national malaise, end power crisis

On Saturday, this paper led with a story headlined Power outages wreak havoc about the massive increase in electricity load-shedding which has crippled industrial production and commercial operations, and left households in darkness for the most of the day.

Business representative bodies say effects are proving to be catastrophic while households, particularly low-income ones, have not been spared either because people have resorted to buying and using gas stoves, generators, firewood and candles, raising the cost of living against the backdrop of static salaries.

Bemoaning that this was pushing labour costs to prohibitive levels, Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce vice-president Davison Norupiri said: “We are paying workers who would not have worked.

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