GRID WATCH: André de Ruyter: Deliberate acts of sabotage are causing power cuts

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For the first time, Eskom has pinned the blame of load-shedding on sabotage — the latest at Lethabo power station in the Free State.

For the first time, Eskom said on Friday, November 19, that “deliberate acts of sabotage” are causing rolling blackouts.into a backup line on Wednesday evening at Lethabo Power Station in the Free State, Eskom declared sabotage.

“We are exposed and there is a need for the police and state security to step in,” said De Ruyter, who until now said he had chosen “not to attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence”. Eskom said the replacement of ‘good’ coal with substandard incombustible coal and bits of rock, a common practice at the height of state capture, had not ended. “We are working against considerable coincidences,” said De Ruyter at a Friday morning briefing.

 

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