The longest power cut

Since the start of this year’s winter season, the twin suburbs of Mzilikazi and Makokoba have surprisingly been ‘put off’ the load shedding schedule by the power utility, Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA). Mzilikazi and Makokoba have been experiencing unscheduled power cuts since the 27th of July.
However, the power cuts that have taken place on the 27th and the 28th of July have also affected other areas in the city which traditionally did not experience load shedding. For instance the Bulawayo central business district went without electricity for the better part of the day on the 27th of July.
Imagine one of the restaurants in the central business district had to prepare lunch dishes using firewood. These are the times indeed, ZESA is slowly turning our urban centres into rural dwellings. One of these days I am sure we will work up and be used to e-town egcwele intuthu, after all kuko ntuthu ziyathunqa.
Concerning these power cuts something interesting immediately comes to mind. What exactly is taking place at ZESA. Would someone care to explain? I thought that with depressed industrial and less production work at farms this winter we will not be subjected to load shedding, alas I was fooling myself.