By A Correspondent

Prominent lawyer and politician, Advocate Fadzayi Mahere, has rejected the Zimbabwe Parliament’s claim that a power outage during the national budget presentation was caused by lightning.

The power cut disrupted the presentation of the 2025 National Budget by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was also caught in the dark.

However, Mahere insists that the true cause of the power failure was not a thunderstorm, but rather the ongoing load shedding affecting the country.

“Stop lying! No thunderstorm caused that power cut. It was load shedding,” Mahere declared on social media.

She continued, “Mthuli Ncube was actually lucky to have power for the full duration of his speech and during the afternoon.

This is a luxury most Zimbabweans can only dream of.

We experience up to 23 hours of load shedding daily due to the incompetence and failure of those at the top.”

Mahere also expressed her frustration with the government’s response, saying, “How dare they act surprised by their own failings.

They must be apologizing to us! We need new leaders.”

In response to the incident, Parliament issued an apology on Friday, claiming that thunderstorms and high winds had affected overhead power lines, causing a trip on a 132kV feeder that supplies power to a substation in Mt Hampden.