Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:37:00 +0000 Dear Editor, THE UPND leader Hakainde Hichilema may have lost at his fifth attempt as Zambia’s president but that has not stopped him dispensing advice. A suggestion that a fault caused by lightning on the 330kv transmission line from Kabwe to Serenje , in his view, was due to incompetence by alleged PF cadres at ZESCO sparked a row and led to a bold denunciation of the man himself (“PF roasts HH over Zesco power cut remarks”, Daily Nation, November 26, 2016). Zambia was still reeling from the latest power outage that paralyzed five provinces, Eastern, Luapula, Northern, Muchinga and some parts of Central province. This was as a consequence largely ZESCO’s shortcomings in backup transmission infrastructure. Though there is a technical element to the tsunami-like power outage, a complex set of financial implications and natural calamity reasons is seen as being behind the unprecedented power blackout. Complexity did […]
