Grace Mugabe Who Skips Meals In Solidarity With Zims, Says Power Cuts Also Affect Her Family??

FIRST LADY Grace Mugabe has once again tried to endear herself with the long suffering Zimbabweans after she told Zanu PF supporters on Saturday that she was also a victim of the incessant power cuts being experienced throughout the country with most consumers going for 18 hours a day without supply.

Addressing party supporters who braved the scorching sun at Murewa Growth Point, Grace said power cuts were also unbearable to her.

She said while she was preparing for her rally early that Saturday morning, she got frustrated after electricity supplies were suddenly cut off at her plush residence.

“I also experience power cuts. Early this morning when I was dressing to come here electricity was suddenly cut,” she told the party supporters most of whom are villagers yet to have electricity connected to their homes.

“You might think that we do not experience power cuts at Mugabe’s residence but it also affects us. Most of my domestic electric appliances have, as a result, been affected by the power cuts. That is why we need to look at how best we can have new sources of energy like solar,” said Grace.

Mugabe’s wife went on to give a lecture on the dangers of cutting down trees, and the effects of climate change. She added that President Robert Mugabe had been invited to attend a global climate change conference in Paris, France this week.

The First Family live in the upmarket and leafy Borrowdale Brooke area in Harare and their residence is a high security area, guarded around the clock by surveillance cameras and other electronic gadgets that need constant power supplies backed by powerful generators in the rare event of a power cut.

Power supplies have seriously affected the day to day operations of the ordinary citizens and businesses as the country grapples with aging power plants and critically low water levels at Kariba dam.

Last week, Grace also stunned party supporters at another rally in Mbare when she claimed that she at times sleeps hungry in solidarity with millions of Zimbabweans who face massive starvation due to the effects of the drought and the chaotic land reform process.

For years, Grace has been criticised for her appetite for high life and an expensive lifestyle gaining the moniker; “First Shopper” while the majority of the people live in poverty.

During the Murewa rally, Grace urged the rural women to hold demonstrations at the border posts to block products such as tomatoes, onions and chickens from being imported into the country.

“You should organise and add value to your products. You should package your free range chickens so that they are found in large retails supermarkets like TM.

“You should be organised and be able to demonstrate at borders so that no trucks with tomatoes, onions or chickens come in. I am also pained as I also produce milk but milk is coming in from South Africa. We want our industries to be protected.

“I will join you in those demonstrations at the border and block the trucks from coming in. Remember I am a 600 horse power. Our detractors are using us for ZimAsset to fail. Let the agriculture reform programme fail because of the lack of rains not the people,” said Grace. source-newzimbabwe