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Power Blackouts Force Zimbabweans to Work Graveyard Shift

Columbus Mavhunga

   HARARE - Most parts of Zimbabwe's capital get electricity for only
   seven hours per day, and the hours usually come overnight, when there
   is less usage and power stations can meet demand.

   Once the electricity comes on around 10 p.m., Harare lives up to its
   local title as "the city that never sleeps."

   For the next five to eight hours, businesses that need electricity to
   function spring to life, even on cold, blusterywinter nights.

   Nelson Muzhuwe, who manufactures door and window frames, says he is
   recovering from a cold he caught while working overnight. He has an
   appeal to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.

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