By Own Correspondent| After nearly 4 years of no power cuts, ZESA is set to start load-shedding as water levels at Kariba Dam drops, a local publication has reported.

Chitungwiza residents woke up to load shedding today (Sunday) in a development which has dampened the Easter holidays.

Said residents who spoke to ZimEye:

“The power cuts without notice are back. I do not know why we were not given notice because this has caught us unaware. We have spent over two weeks with no water and now no electricity, this is really sad,” said a Unit J resident, Dorcas Mutero.

ZETDC reportedly sent a load-shedding application to the government and the government has approved that the power utility can start load-shedding.

This exercise will see households and businesses going for hours without power per day.

The situation has also been escalated by the low coal output at Hwange which is the country’s biggest plant that’s fired by coal.

ZESA is reportedly also battling machinery problems at their stations as most of their machines have aged and needs replacement.