Two Bindura men sentenced to 10 years for power cable vandalism

In the quiet hours after midnight in Bindura, Zimbabwe, two young men set out to extract a buried power cable from behind a primary school — an act that would cost them a decade of their lives. Caught not by sophisticated surveillance but by the simple alertness of a neighbor who heard something wrong in the dark, Claudius Sikelo and Foster Tsvekese Kamhaka were convicted of damaging critical electricity infrastructure and sentenced to ten years each. Their story sits at the intersection of economic desperation and collective consequence — a reminder that the theft of shared infrastructure is