PF faction secretary general Raphael Nakacinda has described government’s announcement that load shedding will increase to 17 hours per day as a lie, saying Zambia has been experiencing more hours of darkness already. And Economist Dr Lubinda Haabazoka says citizens should brace for harder times because the move will negatively impact the economy. On Friday, government announced that load-shedding hours would officially increase to 17 hours per day, effective September 1, 2024. In an interview Friday, Nakacinda said government was lying about the number of load shedding hours which Zesco was effecting. “These people have failed tremendously because even the pronouncement they are making of 17 hours, they are lying because the time of load shedding has already gone beyond...