Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has revealed that the power utility was forced to take all eight unitsHowever, public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan has subsequently implied that the incident was deliberate.
Gordhan had said earlier that some Eskom employees were “resisting” moves at the power utility to root out corruption and apply higher performance standards. “We have lost the entire Camden plant due to an employee opening the wrong valve and in the process contaminating all of our demineralised water supply that we need to run the steam turbine,” he said.De Ruyter explained that Camden being taken offline equated to a loss of between 1,400MW and 1,500MW of generation capacity — more than a stage of load-shedding.
“Eskom is investigating the incident, and its actions will be guided by its well-established disciplinary code,” he said.
It's highly unlikely to be sabotage. This is now the 5th incident at Camden I am aware of, albeit the first in a number of years. Camden's demin plant has manual valves. This is compounded by conductivity analysers with auto range switching and local indication. It's...
If there was any real sabotage at Eskom the would have arrest been arrest by now because that's treason. Yekani ukudlala ngathi.
Surpriee surprise NOT.
Lol
Justsay42740408 Electricity 101
Excuses for incompetence. Excuses for protecting a media darling and media fund raiser. There is no credibility in protecting ADR. He's incompetent. Finish and klaar.
Excuses for incompetence. Excuses for protecting a media darling and media fund raiser. There is no credibility in protecting ADR. He's incompetent. Finish and klaar.
Put someone in jail for fucks sakes.
So how does the new eskom board fight the sabotage
Treason....life sentence...
Incompetence is the order of the day as Cadres are given preference over employing qualified personnel.
I suspect it was the ANC inability to fix the issues for 25 years now
This is a lie by CR, Pravin and De Ruyter, we are constantly told about sabotage without any shred of evidence.
How much truth in these press releases by Eskom? Been thinking about it especially when one naively claims that stuffed dollars are the proceeds of the sale of game! So this explains why we are governed by octogenarians?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Andre the clown 🤡 is being sabotaged for saving Eskom from overpriced toilet paper
RET faction
Numsa_Media what is your comment on this? A fabricated story by Andre? Are you gonna assist Eskom investigations on this matter?
Mnxim ,excuses excuses 😏.
😂🤣 funny they keep blaming sabotage without any suspects 🙈🤷 Instead of admitting FAILURE TO MAINTAIN infrastructure for 20 years is to blame!!
We are NOT fools…this is the work of cANCer cadres!!! Because they are being prevented from feeding at the troth of graft diesel, coal and corrupt maintenance plans!! Why ? Because we are being governed by “mafia” criminals!! There is your “3rd force”
Sabotage or just plain....sabo-incompetence....
Find these traitors and jail them for life gatvol satraitors
Song 🎵 of 6 pence when ineptness & deliberate destruction to unbundle SOE are EXPOSED.
We are facing a serious internal war, Anc faction loading declaring it, Inside terrorism starts to destroy electricity power and the rest is history,
Did you sabotage your own plant eskom? We do not believe you anymore. eskommustfall
These people should be tried for treason as should the whole anc
Gee! We ALL guest that!
Some EFF & RET people are still looking for evidence of sabotage in the darkness of their bedrooms. They are asking where is the evidence?
Of course it was sabotage. De Ruyter closed down the looting so the greedy boys created chaos so the nation would turn on him and have him kicked out so they could clean out the coffers again. It is SO obvious!
A lot of what is happening with Eskom is sabotage
RET thugs
Fire the entire team at from Camden.
De Ruyter is the saboteur to make way for IPPs
Actual footage of Eskom employees.
More excuses , its like they are queued , last week it was the ocean , this week we are back to the crown’s favourite ……sabotage. Only God knows what we getting next week
ThinkFoYourself
Bullshit stories everyday.
O yes!Business partners actually protect each other.
Any arrests?
This is a true and very worrying situation. We are killing our economy from within.
Sabotage hoax is really working on the gullible but not for long.
In a nutshell: one staff member opened the “ wrong valve “ and took down more than 1 stage of loadshedding ( 1500 MW). The consequence is a disciplinary hearing? Are U fucken serious?!! 😂😂😂
RET Zuma faction had one objective and that was to destroy Eskom to make Cyril Ramaphosa look like he was failing. CyrilRamaphosa
And nothing will happen
This is a fact. Well organised sabotage. What is going to happen to those involved? Nothing!
Pathetic leadership. Period. Overstaffed fat cats. Organised crime. Comrades. Cadres. Everything wrong with our country. Time we remove this scourge.
Terrorists destroy infrastructure.
illegaladverts It was incompetence…not sabotage!
The bolt in the reactor story reviving itself...
So it's going to be a permanent problem because of a person
Eskom must stop taking us for fools, what sabotage? Eskom must tell us which companies are selling diesel to the utility. Beneficiaries of IPP, why aren't financial statements released to parliament.
Fire + charge them criminally! Fcuking up a whole country cos of personal issues!!
Nonsense! The sabotage excuse doesn't hold anymore.
All suspended on full pay! I was arrested for a traffic fine which I did not pay as I never received it.
Thus excuse for Pravin incompetence is boring now
Fire everyone at that station and bring in new blood.
Suspected? For sure. Can lack of maintenance be seen as sabotage? When will we see results of action taken against those who took Eskom down?
So that's 1500MW. Eskom had breakdowns totalling 7500MW at one stage... Fairytales not going to help the country out of loadshedding. Root cause is maintenance philosophy, finance for maintenance and poor coal. Sort out the root cause.
Charge these employees with treason
What's the RSASIU doing about this. This is and the medupi case are priority cases
Numsa
They're busy mumbling some more nonsense, this Andre guy is incompetent and he must be fired.
dwaine_van 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
“𝑾𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒅𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒗𝒆...? He/she will probably only get a verbal warning CyrilRamaphosa Eskom_SA
Is it not possible, in times of crisis, to use martial law to secure our most strategic assets? Is it not? I am just asking...
SouthAfricansP1 Ja- we could’ve told them that for free.
'Suspected'u lieying,it's a fact😡🤬
Ok Eskom_SA so what is happening to these employees? At NPA, can they be charge with treason or some enemy of the state thing. Or are they just suspended with pay and given a warning!? CyrilRamaphosa
This is nuts. Damage caused by an either incompetent or insurrection ist employee puts parts of medupi out of action till 2024 and billions in damages. Fire the damn culprit
Macfarlane123 Operating errors happen nothing to do with sabotage
The difference between sabotage and human error lies in the premeditation and planning of the offence. Sabotage of a country's electricity supply is treason, whereas the unintentional human error is classified as delinquency.
MARIUSBROODRYK Was it the rough seas? Or maybe a jellyfish?
Shoot them!!
It is interesting to note the employees in the explosion were suspended. That was ages ago. No feedback at all on how the case was concluded
Sabotage again...really? 🤡🤡🤡
The thing about maintenance is if you stop doing it, equipments will start failing like someone is fiddling with them. This excuse has to stop please
Suspected...ag shame. More like just plain Sabotage!
Treason!!
Too many excuses in one week 😴
Funny how all over the world the power grids are being 'sabotaged' Nordstream got blown up ffs
Rubbish
dwaine_van The word Nordstream comes to mind. Wonder why?
crimemind3 The employee must be fired.
In many countries, such a massive crime and treason, would call for the death penalty. In the MYANC Liberation Movement Failed State, the criminals, IF caught, will be 'suspended pending disciplinary procedures' PresidencyZA ParliamentofRSA DOJCD_ZA NPA_Prosecutes Eskom_SA
Eskom's destruction was already seeded during the Mbeki era with its insistence on replacing experienced managers and workers with cadres and AA appointments.
Those who are guilty of sabotage must be tried for treason, and given life sentences.
Carl_CE50 Please keep us updated on the outcome !!
Closing of corruption taps and sabotaging Ramaphosa's administration is the cause of loadshedding
Now the truth comes out, Eskom should not blame all the citizens, blame those who illegal wiring, the workers
This should be treated as treason, surely!
benpooler mrlungisa Come this side for comprehension purposes
Le maka maaan
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