Zimbabwe News Update
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HARARE – Abel Gurupira, the acting managing director of the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), a subsidiary of ZESA, has been made the fall guy after he was suspended pending investigations into a series of embarrassing power outages — including the one that plunged President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) into darkness on Tuesday.
However, a parliament statement issued late Wednesday appears to contradict the basis for his suspension, admitting that the legislature had disconnected itself from ZESA supply and was instead running on a hired generator when the lights went out.
In an internal memo dated October 28, ZESA Holdings acting group CEO Cletus Nyachowe suspended Gurupira “pending investigations, following a spate of power outages prior to the Zanu PF conference in Mutare, and during the State of the Nation Address in Parliament.”
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