‘Our lives have become unbearable’: Zimbabwe lives life in very little light
Load-shedding has turned day into night for many firms and families, with most work and chores happening well after dark, when lights flicker on for a few hours
01 August 2019 - 16:25
Harare — At about 9pm, a siren pierces the pitch-black night at the Willowvale industrial park in Zimbabwe, signalling that power has been restored after a day-long outage.
Moments later, eight men in blue overalls walk into a factory and begin shovelling a mound of gypsum into a drying machine to make wall plaster...
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