An entire Eskom power station was taken offline due to suspected sabotage

[mylesillidge]

Suspected sabotage took down entire Eskom power station

Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has revealed that the power utility was forced to take all eight units at the Camden Power Station offline due to human error.

However, public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan has subsequently implied that the incident was deliberate.

 

[Cranjus McBasketball]

Find the culprits quick so you can suspend them and they can start their paid vacation

 

[ch@rge]

Does anyone know ever what happened to the 8 who were suspended for the Medupi explosion?

 

[Petec]

Firing squad on live tv.
See this crap stop pronto.

 

[Lupus]

It's Camden, it's ancient and it was down in 2020 as well, this didn't make news then. It's 2 units of one of the big 6, now can we get more info on why we have load shedding as those 6 plus kusile and Medupi should be ambly supplying us.

 

[TheChamp]

I am afraid the sabotage thing is becoming a very convenient excuse and something the public can buy, not saying it doesn't happen but it seems they resort to sabotage when they run out of reasonable explanations.

 

[r00igev@@r]

The own goal is the ANC cadre deployment. #finishandklaar

 

[Agent_Smith]

 

[charlieharper]

Why sabotaging a public utility doesn't count as treason is beyond me.

 

[TEXTILE GUY]

And do we believe a new board will fix this?

Why the sabotage?

 

[r00igev@@r]

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Correct, its like Boeing blaming the pilots meanwhile back at the ranch, they just made a kak plane. In this case though, it would be that Boeing picked up the guy with the word plumber pilot written on a cardboard box ripoff at the traffic lights and put him in charge.

 

[RonSwanson]

Lekker AA and BEE.

 

[Jam Sandwich]

Everyday we are held to ransom here...if its not the morons burning crap in the road somewhere every single day, its the mofo's at Eskom ...And nothing ever, ever gets done about it....Bad luck if you are a law abiding tax payer here...

Just Glock the lot...So the rest of us who want to work and live can get on with it...

 

[RonSwanson]

I am afraid the sabotage thing is becoming a very convenient excuse and something the public can buy, not saying it doesn't happen but it seems they resort to sabotage when they run out of reasonable explanations.

Like underqualified AA and BEE appointees.

Eskom has too many white employees

Eskom is set to axe as many as 3,389 skilled white employees, including 1,081 white engineers and managers, as it ramps up its affirmative action policy.

businesstech.co.za

Eskom wants to get rid of white engineers and managers

Eskom wants to drastically cut the number of skilled white engineers and managers to ensure that it meets its affirmative action targets.

mybroadband.co.za

 

[R13...]

It's Camden, it's ancient and it was down in 2020 as well, this didn't make news then. It's 2 units of one of the big 6, now can we get more info on why we have load shedding as those 6 plus kusile and Medupi should be ambly supplying us.

Medupi is doing well actually despite the sub par construction. Kusile not so much.

 

[R13...]

I am afraid the sabotage thing is becoming a very convenient excuse and something the public can buy, not saying it doesn't happen but it seems they resort to sabotage when they run out of reasonable explanations.

Yeah it's sounding like when they don't know they blame sabotage. You can't run a company of saboteurs. It's a reflection on management that such things can go on under their very noses. One good thing about Koko is that he fired the PSM when such things happened. He was a terrible autocrat but he at least held the PSM accountable in his own surly manner

 

[garyc]

Arnot power station in the 80s. Maybe this belongs in the Do you Remember thread, together with electricity.

 

[R13...]

Arnot power station in the 80s. Maybe this belongs in the Do you Remember thread, together with electricity.

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Doesn't help when the saboteurs are already on the inside "working".

 

[Fuzzbox]

Sabotage should be life in Jail

 

[Sledgehammer67]

Due to human error?! - give me a fcucking break, affirmative action, to name but one and there are many, resulting in people being put in charge of things they have no clue about, what happened there was out-and-out sabotage, finish en klaar and those who are responsible should not be but must be hanged...if they don't give a shti why should we?! Tit for fat butter for fat...