Robert Mugabe and wife Grace owe £220,000 to Zimbabwe's failing power firm Mr Mugabe, 88, and his wife Grace, 46, owe the state-owned Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) for power used on their clutch of properties seized from former white farmers. Other senior members of Zanu PF, including Emmerson Mnangagwa, the defence minister, Didymus Mutasa, the presidential minister, Sydney Sekeramayi, the state security minister, and Webster Shamu, the information minister, owe a combined £650,000 in unpaid bills. Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC prime minister in the power-sharing government, settled his £4,000 power bill last week and urged others to do the same. The revelation, in Harare newspaper, The Daily News, comes as Zesa narrowly escaped being cut off from its key power supplier in Mozambique over non-payment of a £47 million bill. In a bid to save power, it has launched a programme of rolling blackouts which has seen some households go without electricity for up to 16 hours. Others have been cut off for non-payment of bills of just £20 but local papers reported that when Zesa workers tried to cut the power to the homes of Zanu PF officials, they were chased away by dogs and guards. Some are struggling to pay the bills because they have failed to make the farms they acquired after the 2000 land seizures. Others say the bills are incorrect. Saviour Kasukuwere, the Zanu PF Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment minister, owes £70,000 to Zesa but said he was challenging Zesa over the bill. "I am a farmer, I employ people, I have not yet been paid for crops for the last three or four months, and I am sure many of us are in the same situation," he said. We will pay our bills but we are also querying them. But a Harare man whose small clothing factory is crippled by the lack of electricity, said Zanu PF politicians should pay up: "We pay our bills even when we have no power. Why doesn't Mugabe pay his?