John, you must think like a future leader about the current situation we find ourselves in as nation called Zimbabwe. In the early late 60s, the them government so the need to build Kariba dam and Hw**ge thermal power station and they ultimately generated m*re power than needed then. They even had the audacity to build an energy-wasting ammonium nitrate manufacturing plant in KweKwe, Sable Industries.

Many years later after independence when we were lead by a brilliant leader and highly educated government, we have not prepared ourselves for the future, only reaping where we didn't sow. As the demand for energy increased, ideas were mooted and foreign investors realised that, they came up with ideas of making our country self-sufficient in energy by intending to invest in the Sengwa Coal deposits to generate thermal electricity. The innovation was refused by the brilliant technocratic multiple-degreed leader God gave us. That was in the late 1980s when we still had excess power to our requirements. Twenty years on, we're faced with a bleak situation of permanent power shortage, lack of foreign currency to import and a myriad of economic and social problems.

In short this is not a Zesa problem but a leadership crisis we are faced with. Zimbabwe will not grow as a nation as long as we do not have power for the manufacturing, mining, agricultural and other industries. A decision needed to be taken but our government was short-sighted and hence this predicament.

Meanwhile, the future reminds bleak as the GNU continues to haggle over scraps that are left in the feeding trough. Whichever government takes over from in the future has a mommoth task of creating the jewel of africa we were at independence.