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DESPITE much-publicised deals supposed to improve the economy as well as water and electricity supply, it is common cause there has been no change with some households currently going as long as 16 hours without electricity.

Candid Comment with Stewart Chabwinja

Suburbs are currently in the vice-grip of intense power cuts and punitive water shortages.

On Mondays ZBCs Newshour a video clip graphically illustrated the daunting, routine challenge that confronts many residents in the capital which condemns their existence to a daily grind.

Scores of desperate residents in Glen Norah and adjacent suburbs were captured busy in heavily-polluted Mukuvisi River, which they have come to depend on for washing laundry and bathing despite the river being chock-a-bloc with pollutants from sewer and industrial chemicals.

Those interviewed said they had no choice after going for weeks without tap water, while many boreholes drilled by Unicef mostly in vulnerable high-density suburbs at the height of the cholera epidemic in 2008 have fallen into disrepair.

Co-conspiring with water hardships is the intensified load-shedding as Zesas glib statement puts it that has left many households with power only when they are deep in slumber until the crack of dawn.

The excuses for shoddy water and electricity services are so well-worn as to require no restating.

Incessant water and power cuts are among the plethora of hardships that are a reality for Zimbabweans, which also include current house demolitions by council (some nocturnal); job losses in a tough economic environment and crumbling infrastructure.

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People need service delivery not MoUs