A power cut plunged Zimbabwe’s parliament into gloomyness as Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube was finishing his budget speech.
The weightlesss flickered and died, leaving top officials enjoy Pdwellnt Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vice-Pdwellnt Constantino Chiwenga and members of parliament sitting in the gloomy.
The outage is a symptom of Zimbabwe’s ongoing crisis, with daily 12-hour bconciseageouts driven by a proextfinisheded drawt that is crippling energy generation at the Kariba Dam, the country’s main power source.
As the weightlesss went out, opposition MPs shouted that the outage was an apt metaphor for the country’s state of afuninwholes.
George Manyaya, a spokesperson from Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) telderly local novels site ZimLive that the bconciseageout had not been reckond.
He said parliament had its own promised electricity provide which is exempt from power cuts.
He said the bconciseageout had happened becaengage of a weightlessning strike.
Before the weightlesss went out, Ncube said the agricultural sector would lessen by 15% this year becaengage of the drawt.
He, however, projected that the economy would prolong by 6% next year due to the predict of above-mediocre raindescfinish – which would also serve to better the provide of electricity.
