Zimbabwe: Ex-Employee Jailed 90 Years for Stealing From Zesa, Plunging Mutare City Into Darkness

Mutare — A former Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETCD) employee who sent fake load shedding messages through Whatsapp and took advantage to switch off substations and steal electrical components was caged 90 years.

Evans Mukorera, 31, of Area 14, Dangamvura and his friend John Nengomasha of the same suburb pleaded guilty when they appeared before magistrate Lazarus Murendo.

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