ZESCO Board Chairperson Vickson Ncube recently urged citizens to embrace solar energy with enthusiasm and not skepticism because it is a game changer. This may be ironic coming from someone in his position, but Mr. Ncube is right. The ZESCO Board Chairperson gave his reasons for making this suggestion, but what he did not say, or rather what he could not say, is that ZESCO has failed, and therefore citizens have to consider other means of energy. The problem of load shedding did not start yesterday, and it did not start last year. In fact, Zambia was experiencing power outages long before the drought of the 2023–2024 rainy season. For well over a decade, citizens have endured darkness while being...