By Paul Nyathi|The Zimbabwean government has partially restored internet connectivity in the country after over 36 hours of blackout.

Internet connectivity began phasing out on Tuesday morning shortly after midnight when social media sites WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter were disconnected.

A full internet blackout followed on Tuesday morning at 8:30am until Wednesday shortly after 6pm where a slow internet connection was restored. Social Media remains blocked as at the time of this article.

Government has denied that it disconnected the connection with Information Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi claiming that the internet was only congesting due to oversubscribed posting on the internet as people followed the three day citizen protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s governance.

Emmerson Mnangagwa’s deputy Constantino Chiwenga told ZimEye.com in a telephone conversation Tuesday morning, the government does not have capacity to shut down the internet.

Mutodi and Chiwenga were exposed to being a liar when Econet Wireless circulated messages to its subscribers indicating that they had been ordered to disconnect the waves by the office of the President.

But as with everything in Zimbabwe of late, this internet joy could just be short-lived. Any day, any time, we can go offline again…