Last year, Zimbabweans were told the reason for long, painful power cuts was low water levels at Lake Kariba. That was the excuse from ZESA, the authority in charge of electricity. But let’s be honest — that excuse is old and empty now. The 2022–2023 rain season has just ended. The dams should have plenty of water. So why are we still sitting in darkness? The truth is simple: the electricity crisis is not about rain. It is about failure. And the failure has a name — ZANU PF.
It is ZANU PF, the tyrannical, authoritarian, illegitimate, parasitic, pestilential, cancerous, plundering and looting regime that has neglected the people and destroyed basic service delivery. Electricity is not a luxury — it is a necessity. Industries need it to keep running. Hospitals need it to save lives. Schools need it to function. Homes need it for cooking, lighting, and warmth. Without electricity, everything stops.
Yet ZANU PF continues to pretend this crisis is just about weather. They talk about Kariba, but never about their failure to invest in new power stations, renewable energy, or proper infrastructure. They use outdated systems from a colonial era they claim to have fought, yet they cannot build anything better. Instead, they loot. They steal. They lie. And the people suffer in the dark.
The tragedy is even worse in rural areas. Many rural families live in huts made of dagga and pole. They don’t have electricity at home. But that does not mean they don’t feel the power crisis. Their children may work in towns. Their relatives rely on hospitals and schools. When power goes, all these links break. Even if your home is not electrified, your life is still affected.
Picture this: a peasant family with a pregnant daughter-in-law. When the time to give birth comes, it’s a premature baby. The hospital needs an incubator to save the child. But there’s no electricity. The machine doesn’t work. The baby dies. This is not fiction — this is real life under ZANU PF. This is what happens when a government chooses looting over service, power over people, and lies over progress.
The blame lies fully with ZANU PF — the party that has spent decades violating the constitution, destroying public services, and turning the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) into a captured, partisan, militarized tool of election theft. The ZEC, instead of protecting the people’s vote, protects ZANU PF’s hold on power. And what does ZANU PF offer in return? Darkness. Poverty. Death.
If ZANU PF rigs again, and stays in power, Zimbabweans must prepare for a future without electricity, without jobs, without hospitals that work — a return to the dark ages. Their vision of a one-party state is not a vision of progress, but of collapse. Of a nation where nothing works and no one is free.
The constitution — the supreme law of the land — says we have the right to choose leaders who work for us. But ZANU PF has spit on that right. They steal votes. They capture institutions. They crush dissent. They silence the truth.
The people of Zimbabwe do not need any more excuses. They do not need more lies about Kariba. They need electricity. They need jobs. They need life. The only thing standing in the way is ZANU PF — a regime of darkness dragging the whole nation down with it.
The choice is clear: end the darkness, or prepare to live in it forever.