In a statement, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission Distribution Company (ZETDC) blamed its failure to fix faults in some areas for as much as three months on vandalism of copper conductors, transformers and theft of transformer oil.
Part of the statement reads:
The ZETDC wishes to advise its valued customers that it is facing challenges in restoring supply in areas which infrastructure would have been vandalised. There has been an upsurge of faults arising from the theft and vandalism of copper conductors, transformers and transformer oil resulting in ZETDC failing to secure adequate strategic spares. As a result, most of our customers have experienced supply outages of up to three months. ZETDC is doing everything possible to minimise the outages.
They also encouraged customers to report any suspicious persons or vehicles around power infrastructure in their neighbourhoods.
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