While struggling with low power generation capacity at all its power plants, Zimbabwe's State owned electricity producer, Zesa has continued to groan under the weight of equipment theft with millions lost in the process, it has been learnt.
Officials argue that the situation has been worsened by debtors who owe the power utility in hundreds of millions in unpaid rates that initially were in US dollars but given the latest policy measures have suddenly been overturned into the almost worthless local currency.
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