Zimbabwe – last to leave, Never Mind Turning Off the Lights – They’re Already Off
Posted on March 10, 2012 at 09:23 AM EST
In the 32 years of his benighted rule, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Gabriel Mugabe has done more damage to the country than its white-led minority government ever did. With the exception of the smuggling of "blood diamonds" the country’s economy, once the "breadbasket of Africa," resembles nothing so much as a slow motion train wreck. One of the foundations of modern nations’ economic prosperity are reliable sources of power and here too, Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union cronies have managed to screw things up. While the country has a peak electricity demand of about 2,200 megawatts, it only produces 1,200 megawatts because its installed power generation capacity cannot meet demand, which primarily comes from the Hwange Power Station . . . → Read More: Zimbabwe – last to leave, Never Mind Turning Off the Lights – They’re Already Off
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